disposal of deer remains
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sandy Creek New York USA
Posts: 188
disposal of deer remains
I live in a small village and don' t have a convenient way to dispose of the deer carcass after butchering my deer. Digging a hole is a lot of work and impossible when the ground is frozen. How do you solve this problem?
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kerrville, Tx. USA
Posts: 2,722
RE: disposal of deer remains
I quarter the deer in the field and leave the spinal cord, ribs, pelvis, and skin in the field to be disposed of as nature intended, by critters and bacteria. The head and the leg bones left after deboning and processing I double bag in strong garbage bags and put them out with the regular trash.
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Shakopee MN USA
Posts: 1,001
RE: disposal of deer remains
After we are done deboneing(sp?), we just take the heads, bones etc.. out to the land that we hunt on and throw them into a gully created by water runoff. Like the last poster stated, the critters and nature will take care of what we throw out there.
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Adirondack Moutains USA Member since sept/02
Posts: 1,639
RE: disposal of deer remains
Give the remains back to nature, it' ll know what to do with them. Just don' t throw the remains next to a busy area where other people will see them. All that will do is give ammo to the anti' s.
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Athabasca Alberta Canada
Posts: 353
RE: disposal of deer remains
Box it up and mail it to someone ya dont like...naw just kidding. If ya live in the city and can' t bring the remains back to the land where you shot it. Just bag it and put it in the trash.
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You could debone it next time out in the place where you down the animal. Takes about 2 hours of your time.
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You could debone it next time out in the place where you down the animal. Takes about 2 hours of your time.
#10
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sandy Creek New York USA
Posts: 188
RE: disposal of deer remains
Great ideas;thanks guys. I hesitate to bring back the remains where I shot the deer as the landowner would not approve. I can' t take the remains to the dump as they don' t allow it. I do have a good size compost pile and that is a great alternative. How long does it take to " decompose" ? Don' t the local critters dig it up? Next time I may quarter the animal and take the backstraps,but isn' t this a rather messy and unsanitary procedure in the woods?