Joseph went out about 8:30 this morning to feed the horses and come running back in with big tears in his eyes screaming there is something wrong with Midnight and that she was laying in the stall upside down and moaning So we all ran out there to see whats wrong with her, she was colicing and had prolly been down for a few hours. We tried everything to get her up but could'nt. So I called my neighbor for help and we got her sitting up after about an hour,meanwhile my wife ran to to vet to get a shot for the horse.We tried all day to get her up with no success, I even raised her up with the skid steer and could'nt get her to stand by herself. We did every thing we knew and even called several vets to get info, most just said good luck and the others said take her Lexinton,ky for surgery but she prolly would'nt make it at this point :sad: All we could do at that point was try to keep her comfortable and warm and hope she pulls through on her own, She passed to the Big hayfield in the sky about 9:00 tonight. :sad3: I am not sure what to do with her now, I can't get the skidsteer over the hill to bury her because of the snow and frozen ground, and I don't want to just let her lay there and wait for the buzzards to get her or the coyotes :shrug: My neighbor suggested burning her but I dont know if I could do that :rolleye:
This has to be tough......sorry to hear this bud.
Jeb :sad:
Sorry to hear this
Up here we have a place called Holmes Bi Products They come to your place pick up dead farm animals and take it back to the plant where they make mixes for dog food meat for gator traps and many other things
Call a slaughter house and ask who picks up their bi products if you explain to them what you need done I am sure they will be happy to help you out
Sorry to hear about your loss. Do you acess to any wood chips? at our last cattlemen meeting the University of Kentucky gave a talk on composting our dead animals. This looks to be whats happening in the future and i,m going to do it on our farm when that problem comes up. you can pm or call Thanks Steve
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Sorry to hear about your loss.
I was gona suggest the same thing Bill suggested.
Sorry about your loss. Been there myself.
Dealing with the kids would be the toughest part.
But yeah, have it picked up might be the only option. Gotta be careful how I word that.
We still haven't decided how to deal with this yet,I did call a company that handles this sort of thing today and they wanted $150 to come get her and I was told that they would take her to the local dump for disposal :holdon: I told them never mind then I would take care of it, I mean hell I could take here to to dump for $15 but I think she deserves a bit better that to be tossed out like trash :rolleye: I am looking into the composting like linemansteve suggested, or Burning her like like my neighbor suggested. Still not sure, At least I have some time with the cold temps to make a decision. Right now we have her covered pretty well but I definitely have to do something tomorrow.