How long to wait after nearby house fire?

Thankfully everybody is ok. Here, there, everywhere, all involved are safe. Not my structure and I didn't lose anything, but the fire was very close by. Was a few stinky indoor days by my air filter. Now I'm wondering.... How long do I wait before I butcher my livestock? I have a whole mess of critters in line to go to freezer camp, but they just got a mega dose of airborne chemicals. I'm assuming the lungs aren't even good for dog treats and I should do what with them? Maybe compost? Maybe? Or use them as bait in traps? Idk. How long do I wait tho before it's safe to butcher?

There for a while it was hazy hazy smokey out, and stunk to high heaven.

Typed on a broken cell phone, so please forgive typos or anything like that lol

Welcome to the forum.

That sounds like a sad situation.  I hope everyone is okay.

I am sorry that I cant answer your questions though I hope someone will have an answer as we have a lot of knowledgeable folks here on the forum.

Man, that really sucks.  They say here that it takes as much water to clean the firemen and equipment from the toxins as it does to put out a house fire.  Pretty scary stuff.

The label on most medicine/toxins for livestock say to wait two weeks before havesting.  Although, if you are processing yourself, you could do one or two and see if the liver is inflamed, that's usually a sign not to eat.  When in doubt, ask a hunter as they are really good at checking for health and toxins when cleaning an animal.  

But personally, 2 weeks would be a comfortable amount of time to see if they show any symptoms and to clean out the ick that they breathed in.  

Yeah, my one neighbor I spoke to said it was a total loss for the people who had the fire, but they thankfully were not home at the time so everyone is safe. Two weeks sounds like a good place to start, thanks. I'm definitely not happy about all the chemicals and etc. I have exotic birds in one mobile home that isn't sealed the best so I'm hoping none of them get sick. The rest of my animals are outdoors other than I have one small old dog who lives in my cabin with me. Definitely not an ideal situation. My property is pretty isolated, but the fire was in about the closest area it could have been, the wind blew the smoke all straight this way, and the mountains meant it stayed. Perfect storm of awful. At least it's pretty much fully cleared by now, and the leaves are in full fall colors so I can be outside again and enjoy all that. 👍