For those of you that butcher your own deer, what do you to with the carcass and bones after you pick it of all the meat? I don't think my neighbors would be to thrilled to have the odor of decay hanging around the yard all season.
I usually will cut it up into smaller pieces and just throw it away or sometimes dig a deep deep hole in the garden and bury it.
We leave the chest cavity for the barn cats and the old farm dog. It'll be gone in less than a week. I save the leg bones and freeze them for treats for my bird dog. See if any farmers out in your area want them for the barn cats. We usually give a couple away per year.
I like to put old worn out clothing on it and stuff it in a garbage can out in the alley, keeps people on their toes. In all seriousness I just bag it up and toss it in the garbage. I'll freeze it if it's going to be warm and a few days before pick up.
At home if we butcher the carcass gets cut up and put in the trash for pick up, just make sure to double bag to avoid any 'hassles'!! In Ohio we usually take it out and dump it in a ravine or perhaps within view of a hunting shack or something for predators.
The city has a dedicated dumpster at the recycling site for critter remains. Later this fall you could see all sorts of leftover deer carcasses, ducks and geese remains, and even fish guts in there. Stinky trip to get rid of a carcass but convenient.
It goes out on trash day. I waited one day and asked the trash guy and he said it was no problem. By the time I am done the rib cage is the only large bones. Everything else has been separated for deboning. Sometimes I keep the hide for a friend that tans them, sometimes that gets tossed too.
I have a water softener due to well water. The plastic bags the salt comes in are very durable and don't leak. I get the bones down to a size so they fit in these bags, tie them up with twine and out they go with the weekly garbage run. The bags don't let off a foul smell nor do they leak.
