just wondering what folks do when the carcasses start adding up
ive unfortunatly made the police blotter twice

have dump sites or plant em in the garden

What happened with that?

I had one farm where I was allowed to dump in his Manure spreader. Another where I dumped them in his ditch where they dump brush and such.


Mac

I use most of my carcasses for land line draw bait. That way dumping on public land is legal here, whereas if I was just dumping carcasses I could be cited.

i dump in a cattle dead pile.

I have a neighbor I don't like.

I have a dead pit and sometimes just put them in the outdoor wood burner.

We have a dead hole.

I have a farm that lets me dump them way out in the far corner of a field

before I had that I composted them in my composter or dig a hole to bury them in my garden

it doesn't take a lot till digging gets old

We have a property owner/farmer who has us dump them in a field. He likes watching the eagles and other critters pick at them.

Depending on time of year, we also save and use them for bait.

Back years ago there was a family that had hogs in a pen, they welcomed me to feed them all I could get. It's an eye opener to see them tear into a carcass or 50.

That method works on trespassers too.

Where do you think Jimmy Hoffa disappeared too? Pig pen food most likely.

I carry a few carcases and cache them all over my line to develop more draw stations. Behind fallen trees. boulders and brushy ditches etc.

I take mine back on the line and dump in a ditch. Eagles clean them up pretty fast but I’m not taking the large numbers some of you are.

I have a couple of piles. Deer and trapline.

Dead feral pigs are left for bait throughout the farm. Same for the occasional livestock loss.

Have a deep ravine I can pitch them in right off the gravel road.

X2 actually know of a few locations like that.

The ones hate are the people who throw them off a bridge in the water.

I have a burn pile of brush usually every year. That's where my canines end up. But everything else that get fed upon gets piled in certain areas for later use.

I have a steep, wooded hillside I toss carcasses on. It's littered with a great many skeletons, from 13 years of accumulation. It resembles a Khmer Rouge site.

Keith

I have several landowners that allow me to drop carcasses on there land. Generally easy to get permission when I tell them that it'll allow me to kill more coyotes on the pile.

I throw em in the work garbage.

I had a carcass dump where, unbeknownst to me, Gary Ridgeway (Green River Killer) had dumped a body.... about half a mile from my house I might add. I later found out that ithe animal bones caused a lot of excitement for the detectives; I guess all of us trappers within quite a large radius were in their crosshairs for awhile.
I had used this dump for about five years; lots of bones. This was in the mid-late 80's
BTW, Ridgeway lived less than two miles north of me. For years prior to his arrest, guys at his work, in the paint shop at Paccar, called him "GRG", Green River Gary.

I dump them out back on my land, and let a couple of other trappers, dump there's also

I dump em out back too. D3 ades of that and even deer when I was processing 100 a year. You would hardly know it. Bones get scattered and drug off. Mother nature covers up pretty quick

Some landowners give permission to dump on their property and the rest I compost at a farm I have permission.

I've had a "bone pile" down in a corner of my property for decades. The buzzards, red tails, crows and other critters feast all fall and winter.

I have one at camp too. Pieces from that one get scattered far. I suspect some of that scattering is done by the same bears that are constantly knocking down my burn barrel.

One winter I fed 8 feeder hogs on nutria and beaver carcasses plus okara and C.O.B. cooked in with the okara. The rate of gain was very impressive. Boy did they make quick work of carcasses. Even the bone was mostly consumed.

I just chuck them in the ditch along property I have permission to trap. They draw ravens, ravens draw furbearers, snares that are set nearby ditch carcasses catch more things to turn into carcasses to toss in the ditch.

Back to the property the next day when you return to check traps. Discard them away from public view.