in2anity wrote:Speaking as someone who grew up on a largish (3000acre) working property near Dunedoo, most dead stuff out in the paddocks stays where it falls. If its in a inconvenient position like close to a dam or somewhere where you would smell it regularly, then we used to drag it away to an out-of-the-way gully. Same goes for large cattle stations (which I've also worked on) - you only move em if they may compromise the water. I've never known any real farmer to do anything different to this - and when it comes to cropping and pasture (which you may bail) it doesn't really matter if there's a few bones mixed in, nobody ever even thought about that from memory. You don't run stock on crops or bailing pasture though so no dead sheep or cattle. I suppose you wouldn't wanna drop a deer a week before wind rowing / bailing, that's a very specific scenario though... I don't know any hobby farmers personally, so I can't comment on their perhaps extreme attitudes...
you get it - all the farms I've ever been on operate the same way, pretty much common sense I reckon, if it's in ya way move it, if not leave it where it lays.
All I can say to anyone who hunts on diff properties, ask the owner what the rules are so to speak, they will soon tell you how they want it to work and more than likely will tell you if they want carcasses disposed of in any particular way anyway but always good to clarify the rules before you start.
Lots of farmers don't like foxes hanging of fences, some are fine with it so I just clarify how they want things to work before I get started, same with spotlighting too, I find out if they are ok or not with it any restrictions etc, same goes for paddocks that have crops in them or are about too, I ask if I can or can't drive on them etc, some are fine some say no, ya just got to ask questions to avoid problems and you should be fine.