IluvABbeef
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Last winter I was walking with my brother and S.I.L. to see if we could get the skidoo going and noticed something very strange in the field my grandpa had rented to a neighbor who was Dutch dairy farmer.
It was pretty disturbing, to say the least. The diary farmer had, of course, spread manure on the rented field in the fall, but what he had in the manure was the thing that grossed me and my brother and my s.i.l. out.
There were a whole pile of cattle bones spread out, like whole bones: leg bones, hip bones, ribs, parts of skulls, among other things, often with a bit of flesh still attached. (I don't have pics, and even if I post them, I might get hollered at b/c it'd be too gory for these boards) I thought, "why the heck would he do something like this? Why couldn't he run the bones (or, the body of the dead cow) through a pulp machine that'll grind them up and THEN spread them on the fields??"
I dunno...maybe it's some "strange" technique this dairy farmer has that he's brought over from where he immigrated from...or something else...whadyall think?? :help:
It was pretty disturbing, to say the least. The diary farmer had, of course, spread manure on the rented field in the fall, but what he had in the manure was the thing that grossed me and my brother and my s.i.l. out.
There were a whole pile of cattle bones spread out, like whole bones: leg bones, hip bones, ribs, parts of skulls, among other things, often with a bit of flesh still attached. (I don't have pics, and even if I post them, I might get hollered at b/c it'd be too gory for these boards) I thought, "why the heck would he do something like this? Why couldn't he run the bones (or, the body of the dead cow) through a pulp machine that'll grind them up and THEN spread them on the fields??"
I dunno...maybe it's some "strange" technique this dairy farmer has that he's brought over from where he immigrated from...or something else...whadyall think?? :help: