That makes sense: boil for soup or gravy, and/or give to the dogs.
At first, Googling, I only found wack-a-doodle ideas such as I might have tried:
- an acid soak such as vinegar demineralizes them and makes them rubbery. However, I would only add vinegar to soil that was basic, not my usual situation.
- hammer them into tiny bits (labor intensive!)
- " steam them into a goo" (in a pressure cooker? that's a small batch size)
But it turns out to be pretty easy even if you have more cow carcasses than dogs or soup pots:
A Low Maintenance Approach to Large Carcass Composting
http://amarillo.tamu.edu/files...
Paper Number: 032263 - An ASAE Meeting Presentation
(four Texas A&M authors)
>> This paper presents results of a large- carcass (horse and cow mortalities) composting study using an in-bin, static pile composting system. Bins were created using large hay bales and spent horse bedding was used as a co-composting material. ....
>> This was a low maintenance composting system because
no pre processing of mortalities (cleaving, grinding etc.) was performed, ...
>> and piles were turned no more than twice during the nine-month trial period.
>> After six months of composting with and without the wooden pallets, similar carcass conditions in terms of faint odors and
a high degree of large bone biodegradation were observed.
>>
The final product was ready to be land applied without the need to screen out large bones as they shattered and disintegrated easily.
