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<blockquote data-quote="darcelina4" data-source="post: 1609614" data-attributes="member: 27059"><p>We usually bury dead animals. If it is smaller, I hand dig the hole. It is all sand where I live. Big ones we have a neighbor (80 years young) with a backhoe that buries them. In January, my 31 year old thoroughbred mare died. It was really cold (15 degrees) with ice and snow and 25 mile an hour wind. He was sick and could not come out in that weather. We had our other neighbor drag out to the back of the pasture where there is a big depression so noone would see the body from the road. A few days later the backhoe guy said he could come over. We looked at the horse and another neighbors starving dogs were eating her. We decided not to bury her but to feed those poor dogs. It was so cold so no bad odor. Then in may a 25 year old thoroughbred mare died. We had the backhoe guy bury her right away..... Back in June 2007, we had a 2 month old colt die from pneumonia. I was cash strapped so I spent 6 hours digging a hole. If was 5 feet deep, 4 ft wide by 4ft wide. My sister came and helped me get the body out of the barn, drug with the truck out to hole, and in the hole. The horses were all freaking out. She had a big stick and had to keep waving them back. I spent 2 more hours putting the dirt back over him. Them it started to rain. It was about 1am by this time. We got 12 inches of rain in the next 24 hours. In the morning my dad was sick so we took him to the hospital. We were busy with work and seeing my dad at the hospital for a few days so I just watered horses and only fed a few. They had round bales already. Then the horrid smell was here. I made me vomit. With all the rain, the colt had blew up with gas and floated up through the sand to the surface. He was half out of the ground. It was too muddy near the gates to get in with a tractor to cover him. I had to get hydrated lime and put over him to curb the stench. A month later another old horse died. When the backhoe guy finished burying her, he pushed dirt over the ribs still stinking out of the ground from the colt. This is why farming can be so yucky sometimes. But as for the original post, I do see animals freak out and cry endlessly when another is dead. When the 31 year old mare died, her penmate was in a big depression for about a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darcelina4, post: 1609614, member: 27059"] We usually bury dead animals. If it is smaller, I hand dig the hole. It is all sand where I live. Big ones we have a neighbor (80 years young) with a backhoe that buries them. In January, my 31 year old thoroughbred mare died. It was really cold (15 degrees) with ice and snow and 25 mile an hour wind. He was sick and could not come out in that weather. We had our other neighbor drag out to the back of the pasture where there is a big depression so noone would see the body from the road. A few days later the backhoe guy said he could come over. We looked at the horse and another neighbors starving dogs were eating her. We decided not to bury her but to feed those poor dogs. It was so cold so no bad odor. Then in may a 25 year old thoroughbred mare died. We had the backhoe guy bury her right away..... Back in June 2007, we had a 2 month old colt die from pneumonia. I was cash strapped so I spent 6 hours digging a hole. If was 5 feet deep, 4 ft wide by 4ft wide. My sister came and helped me get the body out of the barn, drug with the truck out to hole, and in the hole. The horses were all freaking out. She had a big stick and had to keep waving them back. I spent 2 more hours putting the dirt back over him. Them it started to rain. It was about 1am by this time. We got 12 inches of rain in the next 24 hours. In the morning my dad was sick so we took him to the hospital. We were busy with work and seeing my dad at the hospital for a few days so I just watered horses and only fed a few. They had round bales already. Then the horrid smell was here. I made me vomit. With all the rain, the colt had blew up with gas and floated up through the sand to the surface. He was half out of the ground. It was too muddy near the gates to get in with a tractor to cover him. I had to get hydrated lime and put over him to curb the stench. A month later another old horse died. When the backhoe guy finished burying her, he pushed dirt over the ribs still stinking out of the ground from the colt. This is why farming can be so yucky sometimes. But as for the original post, I do see animals freak out and cry endlessly when another is dead. When the 31 year old mare died, her penmate was in a big depression for about a month. [/QUOTE]
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