Rendering service

[denoginnizer]

Is there any money to be made disposing of dead animals? There is no such service in my area and I was wondering if any of you had experience with such a service.

 

[Rod]

Not heard of any in Arkansas, but it doesn't mean there's not any. We've got a big chain and a nice little spot for ours here.

 

[denoginnizer]

If someone paid you some money plus disposed of your animal for you would you be interested?

 

[msscamp]

That service is provided here. I believe it's a part of Platte Valley Pet Foods, but not certain. Call them up, they come in a day to a day and 1/2 max, pick up the animal and haul it off. I believe they charge somewhere around $25. I'm also not sure if they is per animal or per trip as we have never had to dispose of more than one at a time. Hope this helps!

 

[denoginnizer]

The reason this all came about is because I am trying to rent some additional pasture from a lady who wants any dead animals removed frome her property. Not buried but removed

 

[msscamp]

Depending on how populated the area is, it's also not going to make you popular with the neighbors! Rendering plants stink to high heaven. :lol:

 

[jcarkie]

i would pay $25 to haul them off. that wouldn't be bad. i have a place i can dump them for now. lots of buzzards and coyotes

 

[Dee]

It's $20 per call here. If you have one calf, or a pile of cows, pigs, etc. Pick up once a week. There is also an option to pay every 3 months a flat rate. Unsure what that is tho.

 

[Texan]

Do you want to be a source for BSE test material? USDA inspectors so thick around your property that there's not even a place for you to park? Do you want to be in the litigation loop when some feed company accidentally uses material from your facility in ruminant feed? What about if it involves actual transmission of BSE and the U.S. cattle industry loses millions and millions of dollars because of something that originated from you?

Can you make any money doing it? Well, maybe so. But how much would it take to offset the liability and aggravation? Scares me to death just thinking about it. I don't want you to do it and I don't even know you. Check into all of the state and federal regulations involved. Talk to your insurance agent and an attorney. Probably get you out of the notion real quick.

 

[denoginnizer]

Do you want to be a source for BSE test material? USDA inspectors so thick around your property that there's not even a place for you to park? Do you want to be in the litigation loop when some feed company accidentally uses material from your facility in ruminant feed? What about if it involves actual transmission of BSE and the U.S. cattle industry loses millions and millions of dollars because of something that originated from you?

Can you make any money doing it? Well, maybe so. But how much would it take to offset the liability and aggravation? Scares me to death just thinking about it. I don't want you to do it and I don't even know you. Check into all of the state and federal regulations involved. Talk to your insurance agent and an attorney. Probably get you out of the notion real quick.

I can only learn by asking questions. I like to explore all my possibilities. I didnt realize that it was such an offensive subject.

 

[Mahoney Pursley Ranch]

I don't think Texans reply was to show this is an offensive topic. I sure would not want all that liability around my neck either. Besides why would I pay anyone to remove dead cattle when the back 40 and buzzards are free.

 

[Brandonm2]

Back when I worked in the hog business, we eventually got a dead can (just a large dumpster) and we dumped all of our dead...placentas, mummies, stillborns, dead pigs, dead sows, etc in it and a contractor came and picked it up. He handled all the large corporate style hog farms, turkey farms, etc and probably picked up some cows too. They took all of that to a rendering plant in Clinton, NC. He came out ~every 4 or 5 days. I have been behind that truck at a red light in town before and have vomited uncontrollably from the stench (AND I WORKED ON A HOG FARM!!). I know most of the odor is behind the driver; but I could not imagine dumping those dumpsters for 8 hours a day every day. Find somebody else in this business and talk him into letting you ride shotgun for a week before investing money in such a venture to see if you can handle it.

 

[denoginnizer]

Can buzzard waste infect other cattle in your herd?

 

[certherfbeef]

Is there that much regulation on where folk can bury carcasses?
I loose a critter and I fire up the back hoe. No meat wagon to call, no buzzards flying around the place. Just a pile of loose dirt dug the depth of the hoe's reach.

 

[Texan]

I can only learn by asking questions. I like to explore all my possibilities. I didnt realize that it was such an offensive subject.

Huh? I thought I was trying to help you explore your possibilities. Didn't want you to overlook anything.

You really didn't realize the rendering business was an offensive subject? ;-) ;-) ;-)

 

[msscamp]

Is there that much regulation on where folk can bury carcasses?
I loose a critter and I fire up the back hoe. No meat wagon to call, no buzzards flying around the place. Just a pile of loose dirt dug the depth of the hoe's reach.

We did something similar on the ranch, but that doesn't work here. Not enough room, all it does is draw coyotes and other vermin.

 

[joe]

I think we have the same service as dee. He does s.e. SD, and s.w. MN. 20 per call put the cash in a jar by the animals nose. The Mrs., not shy, asked him how he could stand the job. He said he really didn't have much of a sense of smell, and winter was his favorite time. he just backs up to the pile, hooks a chain on the leg or neck, pushes a button, and up into the truck they go. Chain swings out an he hooks the next. but I have too been behind him a mile or so in the summer and wondered of the horrible smell till I cought up to him, and passed QUICKLY! If we have an animal laying around too many days a neighbor will complain and the sherriff will stop and remind you of the rendering trucks #, and that he comes by every thursday.

 

[certherfbeef]

Is there that much regulation on where folk can bury carcasses?
I loose a critter and I fire up the back hoe. No meat wagon to call, no buzzards flying around the place. Just a pile of loose dirt dug the depth of the hoe's reach.

We did something similar on the ranch, but that doesn't work here. Not enough room, all it does is draw coyotes and other vermin.

I'm not talking 6 ft deep. I'm talking 12 or 18 ft deep. Never had a problem with yotes around the hole after it is covered.
And If I have to dig more than one hole every couple years...I need to take a good hard look at my management. I don't have near enough cattle to loose them to trial and error.

 

[msscamp]

Is there that much regulation on where folk can bury carcasses?
I loose a critter and I fire up the back hoe. No meat wagon to call, no buzzards flying around the place. Just a pile of loose dirt dug the depth of the hoe's reach.

We did something similar on the ranch, but that doesn't work here. Not enough room, all it does is draw coyotes and other vermin.

I'm not talking 6 ft deep. I'm talking 12 or 18 ft deep. Never had a problem with yotes around the hole after it is covered.
And If I have to dig more than one hole every couple years...I need to take a good hard look at my management. I don't have near enough cattle to loose them to trial and error.

No means to dig a hole that deep except by hand. All things considered, it's easier to call the renderer as we rarely lose one.

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Can buzzard waste infect other cattle in your herd?

Yes buzzards carry diesese like blackleg and others. with the BSE scare its hard to get rid of dead or down cattle.