3 bald eagles die and 10 more are sick after eating euthanized carcass.

[Myles]

I hope they change the way they dispose of euthanized animals.  Whether to cremate them or something else.  

 

Three bald eagles have died after at least 13 of the birds were likely poisoned from scavenging the carcasses of euthanized animals that were dumped at a Minnesota landfill, according to experts.

The eagles were found last week near the Pine Bend Landfill in the Minneapolis suburb of Inver Grove Heights, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

Local police first found one sick juvenile eagle in the snow on Dec. 4 and brought it to the University of Minnesota Raptor Center, the center posted of Facebook.

Its medical staff determined the bird was likely suffering from pentobarbital poisoning, the primary agent used in euthanasia solution.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/bald-eagles-die-sickened-minnesota-likely-eating-euthanized-animals-dumped-landfill

[Piney]

 Animals euthanized by control officers or the ASCPA are supposed to be cremated or if they are larger livestock sent to a rendering plant for fertilizer. Not a dump.

*******s......

[Myles]

I know if I catch a raccoon in the animal trap I have near my chicken coop, I drown it and dump it in a trash bag and put it in the trash container so it ends up at the dump.   No poison in it though, so I guess it is OK.  

[+Desertrat56]

My cousin catches them with one of those cages and then takes them to the mesa (unoccupied land out of town)  and sets them free.  I don't know how long it takes them to get back to her place.   They eat chickens.  Skunks will only eat the eggs.   She catches the skunks and does the same thing.

[Piney]

3 hours ago, Myles said:

I know if I catch a raccoon in the animal trap I have near my chicken coop, I drown it and dump it in a trash bag and put it in the trash container so it ends up at the dump.   No poison in it though, so I guess it is OK.  

I bury dead wildlife in our woods and I only bury them just in case they have a rabies-distemper type disease. Except deer and rabbits. I leave them out for the buzzards in the woods.

[Myles]

4 minutes ago, Piney said:

I bury dead wildlife in our woods and I only bury them just in case they have a rabies-distemper type disease. Except deer and rabbits. I leave them out for the buzzards in the woods.

I did that a couple times and attracted some coyotes so I stopped.  

[Piney]

44 minutes ago, Myles said:

I did that a couple times and attracted some coyotes so I stopped.  

I throw this one coyote hotdogs.

[+and-then]

This tragedy of unintended consequences reminds me of the woes of a local farmer from about 15 years ago.  He had a field full of soybeans that had just been sprayed with a pesticide and did not know his fence had a broken down gap.  IIRC, either 29 or 39 of his neighbor's cows came into the field and had a feast on those beans.  ALL of them died.    Not only did he lose his cows, he had to pay the county to get them to a burial location and put them under the ground    I never heard if he sued the farmer or not but I think I'd have had to do so.  

[Piney]

On 12/12/2022 at 7:59 PM, and-then said:

This tragedy of unintended consequences reminds me of the woes of a local farmer from about 15 years ago.  He had a field full of soybeans that had just been sprayed with a pesticide and did not know his fence had a broken down gap.  IIRC, either 29 or 39 of his neighbor's cows came into the field and had a feast on those beans.  ALL of them died.    Not only did he lose his cows, he had to pay the county to get them to a burial location and put them under the ground    I never heard if he sued the farmer or not but I think I'd have had to do so.  

Your fully responsible for keeping your livestock in their areas. If they gets loose it's your fault and the soy farmer had rights to sue for crop destruction.

On the other hand if someone gets hurt by your livestock on your property. It's on them. That's why I let my stallion run around my door yard. If my working dogs hurt someone trespassing they were destroyed and I was sued. If my stallion stomped a trespasser, it was all on them.