Eating RTA deer
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glasshalffull
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Regularly feed my dog's with fresh roadkill mostly pheasant, rabbit and hare's, been doing so for years and haven't poisoned a dog yet. Wouldn't eat it myself however 
Bo Diddley
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Maybe so but when I can have venison whenever I wish more or les why would inferior quality.
Road kill is an unknown how long has it laid there? Ideally bled and gralloched within twenty minutes longer than half an hour and its not for me green gralloch that is not so fussed about the pluck its the green gralloch
that will turn the meat.
How much bruising has the animal sustained if you want to eat bruised meat that's your choice I won't.
I have attended many RTAs and dispatched and disposed of the carcass very few have I found that would be fit to enter the food chain and that is animals that were still alive
not those that were found be the road side.
If its not fit to enter the fox chain its not fit for me.
I apply the same rules for deer shot by clients
I will cut up a carcass that has been saddled or one haunch damaged still able to enter the food chain but of no.value at the dealers but anything gut shot and green when you open it up I don't even attempt to clean its disposed of..
A carcass has to be right before I will send it to the dealer and it has to be right before I will eat it.
There is plenty good venison available why would I eat crap.
Gralloch was totally intact aside from lacerated liver. Stomach not very distended, gralloch was easy.
Technically in law it belongs to the local council I think? That aside I agree with the above. I always am happy on a return journey to pick up a dead pheasant that wasn't there on the outward leg of that journey (so as to remove a hazard to other road users and/or then contact the local council to ask of they want it) but I wouldn't pick up anything that falls outside that rule. Not there when you go out but there when you come back is OK. But if not I leave it and never, never, collect dead deer.
Bo Diddley
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I pick up everyone I come across as soon as the clocks change in the autumn, I use them for bait stations for the foxes. I've got a Roe on the bottom field at the minute, I'm sitting here tapping away drinking a coffee, and a Red kite and a Buzzard are on it, the Kite is actually about 6' away from it waiting for the buzzard to bugger off.
charlieboy-shooter
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I would guess that based on the fact she was internally still warm and retained enough body heat that she steamed once gralloched that she was as you say relative fresh and probably and I say probably ok to eat. That said.
The truth is you have that nagging question in your head. Unlike others which would happily consume it, you have that doubt. If you was to eat it, would it nag on your mind that night when you went to bed. in which case it just isn't worth it is it ?
You either fall in to the camp it will be fine and crack on and eat it and in reality it would probably be fine. But is it worth that doubt or worry if you are not that type of person?
Although, In truth we can all only offer advice on our own experiences. whether good or bad and the information you provided.
I base my remarks on my relatively few experiences but know I very much fall into the worry camp.
Many years back my 1st experience with a RTA and free venison as I saw it. Saw the deer hung from the kids play frame in the garden, the other half came home and said there are parents from the school coming in an hour that needs to be gone. It all looked and butchered to my mind ok but that night when I returned home the meat had changed to the green colour of the header of SD. So no road kill for me.
I was later asked to assist someone in gralloching a deer a work colleague. His son had just dropped off freshly killed, so he said, Muntjac to the carpark at work. I have never seen such a tick infested Muntjac and advised against eating it. I certainly would have not. However he was insistence so I gralloch it for him. when asked if he had a sharp knife he pulled out his pen knife and said the base of the blade was sharp, great I said that's a lot of help. But I gralloched it for him. Apparently how great it was, was posted all on his and his son face book page with no ill effect.
let us know the outcome good or bad please.
The truth is you have that nagging question in your head. Unlike others which would happily consume it, you have that doubt. If you was to eat it, would it nag on your mind that night when you went to bed. in which case it just isn't worth it is it ?
You either fall in to the camp it will be fine and crack on and eat it and in reality it would probably be fine. But is it worth that doubt or worry if you are not that type of person?
Although, In truth we can all only offer advice on our own experiences. whether good or bad and the information you provided.
I base my remarks on my relatively few experiences but know I very much fall into the worry camp.
Many years back my 1st experience with a RTA and free venison as I saw it. Saw the deer hung from the kids play frame in the garden, the other half came home and said there are parents from the school coming in an hour that needs to be gone. It all looked and butchered to my mind ok but that night when I returned home the meat had changed to the green colour of the header of SD. So no road kill for me.
I was later asked to assist someone in gralloching a deer a work colleague. His son had just dropped off freshly killed, so he said, Muntjac to the carpark at work. I have never seen such a tick infested Muntjac and advised against eating it. I certainly would have not. However he was insistence so I gralloch it for him. when asked if he had a sharp knife he pulled out his pen knife and said the base of the blade was sharp, great I said that's a lot of help. But I gralloched it for him. Apparently how great it was, was posted all on his and his son face book page with no ill effect.
let us know the outcome good or bad please.
baguio
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As a stalker who constantly has venison coming out of his ears at this time of year I'm not desperate enough to stop and give myself even more work on what would probably have been a mess. As it is, you may have got lucky although you haven't yet skinned it I assume? You may find that you change your mind about eating it once you have taken her jacket off? Providing it still looks fine with the jacket off I wouldn't hesitate to eat it although I certainly wouldn't sell it.
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I've often wondered about this. Surely a shot deer is pumped full of adrenaline - it's why they seldom drop on the spot but run (hopefully a short distance).
Not if they weren't aware of your presence.
roaring_stag
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Thank you so much for sharing this video…. Just fantastic!
If the deer are aware of your presence then the adrenalin is already surging before you pull the trigger. That's why, out of two identically shot deer, the one that was unaware is more likely to drop on the spot whereas the one that was already nervous is more likely to run before dropping.
Incidentally, deer aren't particularly afraid of vehicles. It's easier to get close to a group of deer in a car than it is on foot.
Badgers got to eat too. Id rather have something with better provenance
Question, why is it okay to feed your dogs but not for human consumption? If it's okay for human consumption?Why would game dealers not be all over this? Why would a supplier of farmed venison on this site comment that they say thier kids didn't catch any harm eating road kill so it must be okay ( go back and read the posts) think about it Regarding courses some people took on the meat inspection and wild game courses that took a commitment of 23 months full time . DSC1 and DSC2 on a good day can be done on a sunny weekend. And I've got that course too. Road kill , walk away assuming your vehicle won't drive
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