re: Anyone here grow up on a farm? If so, did you have a livestock graveyard?

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burned the carcasses

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legally this is the answer. Or bury them 6 feet

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We always buried dead livestock so as to not attract coyotes.

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We had plenty of coyotes but they never bothered our livestock. One of those coyotes hung on our living room wall.

what does the headstone say?

My father's favorite deer hunting spot is a little wooded spot at the corner of a pasture that is littered with cow bones. It's not our farm, but I assume that is their place to drag those that don't make it to the butcher.

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Anyone here grow up on a farm?

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yep

Yeah pretty much. We also dump any deer guts/bones in the same place.

I got a coyote from about 150 yards with my 270 that was creeping on our horses, best shot of my life. Hung him up on the fence on the edge of the forrest,, the coyotes haven't been back since.

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Or bury them 6 feet

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dad never owned a backhoe (still don't know why). And he said he never really wanted to have to punch holes every time a heifer died, so it was just easier to burn them off.
Yotes weren't as plentiful back then, but the vultures were quite efficient.

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We always buried dead livestock so as to not attract coyotes.

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If you put a donkey or two with the cattle you don't have to worry about coyotes.

We drug them to the back of the property and even though that was many years ago and that portion has grown up in timber I can still go into the patch and find bones. Of course they used it from about 1915 to I'd say about 1980. Then started cotton and beans and sold the cattle, timber, fence and fenceposts.

I always had the job of wrapping the chain around the bloated cow that had gotten stuck in the bar pit. And yes I say bar pit not barrow pit.