Questions: 

 

1.       If you lived in a rural early 18th century setting and your horse
died, what would you do with the body?  

 

2.       The smell would become putrid rather quickly and let's face it
horses weigh a ton, so would you salvage what you could, hide, hooves .???  

 

3.       Then what, would you quarter it much like you would do when elk
hunting to haul it away from your homestead?  This should leave cleaver
marks but not cut marks.  

 

4.       During the first half of the 18th century what mechanisms were in
place to dispose of old, dead or sickly horses?  Later there were glue
factories, dog food companies and fertilizer companies.

 

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Bill Liebeknecht, RPA

Hunter Research, Inc.