Are they usually buried or are their parts used for other purposes?
Just curious ..
2007-01-19 20:06:41 · 17 answers · asked by jen_1506 2 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
depends how much you loved your horse. If it was alot, you bury them, if it was not so much and your too poor to bury them then the render them. Call up the render company to take em away, and do various things. Mostly the dont use horses for dog food to much anymore, alot of horses have died of old age, or medical reasons and had alot of medicine pumped into there bodies. So using them for meat dog or human, at that point is not a great idea. If you were going to EAT them like someone suggested you would have had to butcher them almost immediately after death, and I dont think a horse owner would like to do that. The fertilizer company here usualy pays a few bucks for a dead horse, and will take it off the property.
2007-01-19 20:29:51 · answer #1 · answered by I luv Pets 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In my part of the country you can't "sell" a dead horse. You have to pay a rendering truck to come get the carcass. Then the body parts can be used for some products but I don't think a horse that dies from unknown causes can be used for animal food. We choose to bury our pets the same as any pet owner does, only with a MUCH bigger hole!
2007-01-19 21:28:37 · answer #2 · answered by T 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have owned 5 horses (and m parents had many before me as well as a few cows) and every single one was buried when they died. You have to get in a hung digging machine to make a hole big enough.
Pet horses are usually buried. Would you sell your pet dog to be used as animal food? It's the same with pet horses.
For other horses I'm not sure and I guess I'd rather really not think about it. Speculating kinda puts me off when I'm feeding my dogs.
2007-01-19 20:58:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I haven't had this problem yet, thank goodness. But, when my horse dies, I will bury her in the pasture.
I know a lot of people that have cows die and just leave them in the pasture for coyotes and vultures to eat. I couldn't do that. I'd have to bury my animals.
2007-01-20 17:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by Karen H 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Grew up on a farm. I know some farmers had a back hoe and buried their horses. Several I know would move them to the woods for birds/animals to eat it up. Some burned the horses. (I don't think it's legal now). I knew of one woman recently lost a horse and paid a vet to come get it. Not sure what the vet did with it. n
2007-01-19 21:37:19 · answer #5 · answered by Nikki 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Although it's very sad the horses bodies are used to make dog food, and the hooves for glue. All of our horses we bury when they die, just as we do all of our pets. Not counting hamsters, birds, rabbits, etc.
2007-01-20 03:14:00 · answer #6 · answered by Bello Stella 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
we buried our white mule on the farm. and we buried our Tenn.,walker on the farm. but l do not know if every one can do that. l guess it is all on where you live. l hate to think that my walking house would be glue. l just would hate that. l am glad we were able to bury them. no glue no way!!!!!!
2007-01-19 20:32:35 · answer #7 · answered by Star-Dust 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Beat them.
No, I'm just kidding. It really depends on what the owner wishes to be done with the body. The carcass can be sold, or it can be incinerated or buried.
2007-01-19 20:15:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
We have a big river in my town and someone that lives near the river had a horse body float onto her property.
2007-01-19 20:13:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Really could not say, I never owned a dead horse !
2007-01-19 20:14:58 · answer #10 · answered by g_man 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋