Thanks, It's all helpful!

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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Susan
Walter
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 11:39 AM
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Subject: Re: Colonial Horses Part 2

Many of these things were fed to the pigs.
If they were nearby, Gypsies ate "dead meat"
Farmers here that I asked - in the 1900s, mind - they buried them.
My uncle's family in Montana dumped carcasses in a ravine and let the
scavengers have them.
A local butcher told me he butchered them for local families who ate them.
None of this is early 18th century though, just what I've gotten by asking.

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From: "Bill Liebeknecht" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 4:51 AM
Subject: Re: Colonial Horses Part 2


> Questions:
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> 1.       If you lived in a rural early 18th century setting and your horse
> died, what would you do with the body?
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> 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 .???
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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> Bill Liebeknecht, RPA
>
> Hunter Research, Inc.


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