Disposal

I've buried plenty of pets over the years in our back garden (different one).

Don't see a problem unless she had a transmittable disease.

Rob

A little off topic but just an interesting theoretical thought.

I buy a chicken from tesco or the local free range farm and put it in my fridge.  Now for many reasons said dead chicken does not get cooked and a week or so later I chuck it in the bin.   How is this different to putting a dead pet hen in the bin  :?:

I checked this as well, and its food, so you are OK.

 :?  But my dead hen could be food.  I just choose not to eat it  

Yes, I understand that Bodger. Crazy old world eh   :!:  

No one can be trusted us use any common sense nowadays  

What gets me is, we have all these rules and regs going on.  then these TV programmes encourage to keep chickens so we can eat lovely fresh eggs, but no one comes along and says well, now you've got your hens, did you know that when it dies, you can't bury it as it isn't strictly a pet, and you can't put it in the bin as it could carry an awful diease and infect our lovely clean land fill site, but you can pay a man lots of money to come and take it away for you!!!!!    :x  :x

Also, when we clean out the chook sheds, most of the manure goes onto the compost heaps, but the other week, there was a lot of straw and shavings that was still very dry, so we decided to take it to landfill.  We wanted to put it in the green bins, as it would help their compst a lot and the council composting is very hot and will turn it into manure very quickly.

What have you got in those bags said the man at the gate.  straw and shavings from our chickens Brian said, can't go in the green waste, we aren't allowed animal by-products.  So we took it round to landfill.  What have you got in there??  another man said.  Brian told him the same thing.  Can't go in landfill, we are not licensed for animal by-products.  

Brian said what do I do with it then?  Our compost bins are full.  Oh you can bring in a carrier bag full a week, and you can't put it in your own rubbish bin as they are not allowed to take it either.  You have to make your own arrangements to dispose of it!!!

So we do, we have a lovely big fire each week, which with the shavings takes nearly a week to smoulder through, lovely and hot and whoops I dropped that dead chicken on the fire by mistake!!!!

I've put raw bones from supermarket chickens in my bokashi bin and they've disapeared quite nicely.
I was planning on doing the same with the guts and feathers as well from my own birds, when the time comes.
Hopefully I won't get too many birds up and die without my realising they are ailing, If I miss the odd one, I'd want to give it a pm, so it would end up being dismembered as well anyway so I figure it could go in the Bokashi bin too.
I hadn't thought much about what to do with the carcasses if a fox gox gets in, but having read this thread I think I'd have a nice hot bonfire; I wouldn't want to risk the fox digging up the bodies.
The only circumstance I can think of that I would call DEFRA is if a lot of birds die in one day or in quick succession hours after showing symptoms. i.e. in case it might be bird flu, so need a professional post mortem.

Double bag and bin. Bury them and mr fox will come sniffing. Or give to very hungry ferrets.