[Calvin Locke]

That’s the only realistic way of handling this.

During the Reagan boom years, a developer bought land in a town that had been a big tannery area until the early 1900s.

80 years later, backhoes were snagging still rotting carcasses of animals.

Of course, the decay could have been slowed from all the leftover chromium and arsenic sites.

[Pontiac]

Of course, the decay could have been slowed from all the leftover chromium and arsenic sites.

Back in the early days they used mercury in tanning which almost entirely stops decompostion.

[goat granny]

When I had the farm, we had to bury a goat that got a broken neck....the following year I dug up the area because I wanted the skull to show my grand kids....before I reached the carcass, the smell was so bad I reburied it....It took over 2 years for the carcass of a 70 pound goat to be eaten enough by bacteria and worms to be able to retrieve the skull...the earthworms were huge and there was still pink slime but the skull would be retrieved....the horns lifted off the horny bone, and the kids loved it....thats how they use to get powder horns centuries ago...

I think a burial of a large number of cows would take decades to be turned into only skeletons...

But it would be a great place to plant a garden or tree's...