Where is everyone #5

Peterbilt appears to run good, crossed the big muddy twice yesterday, and saw Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, andback here to Indiana. 1261 miles. 22 hours, and only one dead piglet out of 631. Not bad. Although I will say that unloading weaner pigs out of a triple deck pot, vacuums about as bad as anything you can do when it’s hot

 

At least with weens if you can catch them you can carry them. Very easy to carry the dead out at that size too

 

Maybe this is a dumb question . I have no livestock experience of any kind.
How often do u livestock haulers run into the animals dying in transit? What does the customers do with the dead ones?

 

fat hogs, going to the slaughter house, it’s pretty rare that any die, unless it’s really hot. (Most of what I haul is relatively local going to the slaughterhouse, so I can’t speak for those going more than six hours) Weaner pigs, you almost have to knock one down and beat it to kill it, they are pretty hardy. The one that died for me yesterday was in the nose of the trailer, so it was in the first batch they put on, they were in the trailer for 14 hours, and it was hot. And, I went through Chicago about noon time in there, so they weren’t moving all that great for a while. I prefer no dead at all, because I get a $50 bonus for a clean load. The farmer generally takes care of any dead

 

In my experience they tell you to take them with you they die on you they are your problem

 

I’d tie a rope to it and drag that ####er out at the end of his driveway. But, that’s just me

 

How in the hell do you get rid of a random dead cow?

 

After the back strap and other choice cuts were removed

 

I'm usually doing what they call a pasture move, so ranch to ranch, very rarely am I going to a sale barn or feeders but if it happens they'll help drag it off with a tractor and it goes to a open pasture for the crows to eat.

if you know a rancher they know a place to dump one.

But also you can get rid of them at a landfill. It just costs extra