Reason 342 not to own a horse...
 

When people find out I live the country, they always ask if we have horses... While horses are beautiful, I have no plans to have any. My buddy's predicament compounds my argument against horse ownership.

On Thursday, his daughter's horse died unexpectedly.

What do you do with a dead horse?

The ground is frozen and will be until late March or April so burying it won't be easy without bringing in a big excavator or having a large fire first. Their acreage isn't big enough to just drag it off into the corner for the coyotes (and it was a pet so this isn't really kosher).

He was planning to wrap it in a tarp and bury it in snow until the spring. This seems like a bad idea to me...

What would you do!

Rent a backhoe for the day.... Get it done now....

Here they go off to a pet food rendering plant...just burying them can have nasty results if there are wells nearby.

This makes perfect sense. A backhoe should break through the frosty ground. Make sure it is deep or the critters will get it......

It is a major pain in the arse to get through the frost with a backhoe. I have an old John Deere backhoe and have done this beforE, not fun... Still better than dealing with a rotton carcass in the spring.

Fire then backhoe then.....

Yeah that'll work! Just ask the state of Oregon. ;)
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OMG, Did you ever smell a dead horse in the summer? Make sure that that thing is buried 20 feet deep. That stench permeates and you can smell it for miles.

The only smell worse than a dead horse is a dead whale or maybe 20,000 cans of chopped clams rotting and bursting in the summer sun. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/puke.gif

The last horse I had die on me....we called a service to have it hauled off and disposed of properly. There are people in that business.

That was in TX but I would assume other parts of country would offer similar.

I wasn't kidding about the well....I'm surrounded by horsey set idiots. One buried her "pet" horse. Even had a headstone. Ended up polluting another neighbor's well. He sued her and won...a large enough settlement nearly 6 figures.

This is the greenest solution. Do they do anything this civilized in Calgary? Not having buried anything lately I don't even know if they do it here!But I can find out.....:eek:

Call Burger King and use an English accent.

crows and coyotes gotta eat too!

hahahahaha!!!!

This is the best advice. I'm sure you could find someone locally.

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