dead cattle pickup

[kanshow]

Hubby just told me that after a certain date (Feb something???) that they wont' pick up anything over 30 months? 

 

[Doc]

  Unfortunately I had one picked up last week & I thought it odd that she asked me how old the cow was. I told her 6 or 7 , but I didn't have a clue as it was a recip that I had ended up with so I didn't know for sure.

 

[Endless Meadows]

USDA has new rendering rules that will go into affect in April 2009.  It limits what portions from animals over 30 months can be rendered.

 

[Jill]

That's a bummer, an older animal is usually the only ones we have picked up.

 

[kanshow]

The cowherd just got a little younger...

 

[knabe]

coyotes, buzzards busier too.

 

[Doc]

The cowherd just got a little younger...

That's what I was thinking, too!!

 

[HeiferShower14]

we just drag them to a corner and let the coyotes take care of them.

 

[yousesteers]

I dont think we even have  arendering truck around everybody just puts a dead on back in the timber or buries them with a little dirt

 

[kanshow]

My fear is that the alternative options of disposal are not environmentally or rather politically correct and some do-gooder will get laws passed against them.    One by one our freedoms are being stripped. 

 

[red]

We compost dead cattle since you can't get them picked up anymore. It has worked well for us but you need to bury them deep to avoid varmits.

Red

 

[yousesteers]

If you drag them off make sure they are not visible from the road or the neighbors because some one could call you in I believe it is said now they are to be picked up by a rendering truck or buried for disposal but coyotes and buzzards gotta eat also

 

[BIGTEX]

I always drag my dead cattle near a major road. Usually right by my Ranch sign.

 

[showcattlegal]

we have to drag them off we don't have anybody to pick them up.

 

[CM Cattle]

we have to drag them off we don't have anybody to pick them up.

Same here.

 

[jason]

we have to drag them off we don't have anybody to pick them up.

Same here.

ditto

 

[aj]

I got audited 10 years ago or so and the auditor wanted to see the dead slips for the baby calves I had lost. I didn't have any and he threated to cause trouble cause cause dumping baby calves on crp wasn't legal. So its funny how things like this can get you.

 

[kanshow]

They get you coming & going.... 

 

[red]

we had an Amish getting in trouble w/ the EPA when he dumped dead animals along a creek bed.
We used to just bury ours in the ground but w/ regulations compost them which is the approved manner.

Red

 

[Doc]

We had one farmed leased that we just drug them into the woods, but after leasing for 18 years the lady decided to sell it , so we lost our graveyard. And at $960,000.00 for 75 acres that was a little too much for pasture & cow graveyard.