When we lived on a farm, my dad would just get a backhoe and a tractor with a front loader (sometimes used to carry the dead horse). Sometimes, with a dead horse, people drag them or put them on trailers to move them.
When my horse died - well I had her put down, because she got down and couldn't get up and the weather was getting very hot - she was 30. I called until I found a backhoe operator who would do it, and coordinated with the vet, and the place I rented for her. FORTUNATELY, the person I rented pasture from let me bury her there. I had asked them when I moved her there, though. The memory of all that still stays with me, she was my best friend, and it was very hard to do.
Gloria
At 03:27 AM 1/18/2005, you wrote:
Just recently read a post by someone who mentioned that their horse passed on. My sympathies to the individual whom lost a loved one.
I apologize in advance if this may sound like an odd question, but "how" did you arrange the "burial" for the horse?
The reason why I ask is because on top of being happily owned by twelve (12) adorable kitties, I am also loved by two (2) horses.
(I have a barn/stable built on my 6.5 acres of backyard county land.)
Anyway, "Big Red" my Saddle-Breed, Quarter horse (an old chestnut mare) is approaching her 23rd birthday in 2005 and "Ibn Rafftee" my Arabian gelding was foaled on 1-17-74. He just turned 31 yesterday. :)
Since most horses only live to be 30-35 years old I am most concerned with his near future burial arrangements. Although, Rafftee is currently health, he is naturally old. His poor body is starting to show its age, bless his heart.
I have never buried a horse before and do not know the details involved. I absolutely REFUSE to send/sell his body to a "glue-factory." If anyone has ever buried a horse before, could they please share "how" they managed to do it?
I understand that a back-hole will be involved with digging the grave, but unfortunately, I do not know more than that. Once his poor body collapses how will I move Rafftee's half ton body into the grave?
I am SO worry about that specific detail, because I hate to think that I will have to literally "drag" him into it. :( I do not what to disrespect him, by damaging his poor body in the process. Although I understand at that point, he has already left his old and worn out body, I neither what to break any bones nor tare any tissue while placing him in his grave. How does anyone lovingly move a half ton baby?
This is Rafftee's home. It is only right that he be buried here. Thanks.
Lora
