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re: Anyone here grow up on a farm? If so, did you have a livestock graveyard?
Posted on 11/29/16 at 1:28 pm to mizzoukills
Posted on 11/29/16 at 1:28 pm to mizzoukills
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do you have a special name for that spot?
Not really. It was just behind the tank damn out of site. Coyotes clean everything up pretty quickly. But you look hard enough you always find some bones layin around
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Posted on 11/29/16 at 1:34 pm to ScottFowler
Why would sawdust break down the bones?
Posted on 11/29/16 at 1:58 pm to mizzoukills
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As a kid for some reason id collect the skulls once they had been sun bleached and hang them on t-post We did the same thing. My father even made bone art out of sun bleached bones...
Does anybody else do this with big yellow cats?
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:03 pm to mizzoukills
My grandpaw and dad buried the horses and kinda just threw the cows in a big hole
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:07 pm to mizzoukills
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Why would sawdust break down the bones?
I don't think it does, I believe it just leeches out the moisture and hastens the decomposition of the carcass
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:09 pm to mizzoukills
Ours was/is near the river by a small stand of trees. I take my kids there now sometimes. They are fascinated with it. And I tried digging a hole with a shovel to bury a horse once - for about 15 minutes.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:10 pm to LG2BAMA
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Does anybody else do this with big yellow cats?
GTFO!!! NOW!!!
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:11 pm to mizzoukills
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Why would sawdust break down the bones?
It was probably lye. Amish love lye.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 2:54 pm to Mid Iowa Tiger
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rendering truck.
This. Just put an old cow down(mostly dead already at this point) for a senile old neighbor the other day and called a rendering service to deal with the body for him.
Also from Iowa, myself. Louisiana is my home now though.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 3:12 pm to mizzoukills
Did not grow up on a farm, but the place I currently hunt had one. Lots of bones there. The first time I saw it was a little strange.
What was weird was when I looked into the woods near it and saw a bunch of shiny, sparkling things hanging from the trees. They almost looked like Christmas ornaments. I walked over and realized what I saw was hundreds of large treble hooks attached to about 40# fishing line.
Apparently the people before us would put bait on the hooks and catch coyotes or hogs, then come by and shoot them.
What was weird was when I looked into the woods near it and saw a bunch of shiny, sparkling things hanging from the trees. They almost looked like Christmas ornaments. I walked over and realized what I saw was hundreds of large treble hooks attached to about 40# fishing line.
Apparently the people before us would put bait on the hooks and catch coyotes or hogs, then come by and shoot them.
Posted on 11/29/16 at 3:18 pm to alphaandomega
Well that's weird and rather demented
Posted on 11/29/16 at 3:22 pm to mizzoukills
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Totally agree. Waste of time and effort quote:so it was just easier to burn them off. But I don't get this
Always heard you had to bury them 6 feet or burn them because of the possibility of spreading anthrax
Posted on 11/29/16 at 4:02 pm to mizzoukills
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But I don't get this. It's easier to just dump them off at a designated spot and allow nature to do the hard work
I think dad always burned them because he didnt want to smell the decaying animal for a week +. Burning sped up the process.
He never had a donkey or mule for coyote prevention either. I don't think he lost many calves to predation, tho.
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