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You can't just "get rid of" dead animals/livestock here so you can either pay as you go to have them picked up or pay a yearly (insurance?) that amounts to about 70 cents per animal and you call and a truck shows up usually within 24 hours.
Picture temps of 85-100 degrees, a truck with a big metal box and a guy driving around picking up carcasses to drive around all day and dump at the final resting (rendering?) place. We always know when the truck goes through in summer. We live right in a curve where he has to slow down and take off again. Worse thing is if we are setting outside and he meets something that causes him to stop. At that point, the top of the box is about nose level as we set on the frt porch. Barbeque smells much better than what's cooking in that box.

Dave
 
Here in the states they used to pay you to pick them up, then the Gov. passed a law that they had to be picked up so they started charging. Now they decided that animals over 20 months of age would not be picked up so we are supposed to compost them. Blasted Gov.
 
Depends on th state - here you can compost small stuff, big stuff not allowed. By far the cheapest. Very few rendering outfits left, most have been legislated out of existance. Think it's $100 a pickup or $1000 a year to be on the route. Critter can be laying there sevel days, gets harder to fit as many in the truck.

Incineration is allowed for small animals, poultry mostly.

Technically burying is allowed but only on the right ground, so practically they have banned it.

Hog & bird folks can get by cheap, but tough on cattle & horse folk.

Rendering plant is making biodiesel from the gunk.

--->Paul
 

When I was in collage I worked for a rendering plant 1 winter. My job was skinning the dead cattle and dropping carcases in the grinder along with grinding hogs.

Had to cut the tails off the horses so they wouldn't plug the grinder. I even skinned a buffalo.

I quit in the spring when the weather warmed up.

Rick
 
Years ago our local rendering guy used to hit the sauce pretty hard. (I always wondered how people who made their living driving a truck could drink so much and not end up in jail - go figure.)

Anyway, he used to say "The three reasons I don't like my job: June, July, and August!"

He always had some good stories when animals had been sitting out for a few days... I'm sure you can imagine. Another time it involved shooting the wrong cow at a farm. Still another time involving a not-so-dead horse - He opened the doors of the truck at the rendering plant only to have a horse standing there staring at him!

Good old Swanny...
 
Sure wished I had my backhoe when I had the cows. Neighbor and I decided rendering truck driver must not have a sense of smell. Does help to pinch your nose when they"re ripe. Wish I had figured that out earlier!
 
i hit a deer last week with my pickup its still laying along the road (not good eatin this time of year) its been around 100 degrees here for 4 or 5 days now i pitty that poor fella thats going to pick that one up. then theres the guy that pumps out the porta johns dont wear gloves and uses a 2 inch putty knife to scrape the flyers off the back wall neither one is my cup of tea think id starve to death first lol
 
I guess S-S-S covers it for me. I don't really know what the rules are on this stuff around here, and I don't want to know. If we have an animal die, we put it in an active compost heap and cover it with plenty of sawdust or small wood chips. We've never had something as large as a full grown cow die, but if we did, I'd probably work it through the compost like the other stuff.

Just part of life....

Christopher
 
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