Question. If you had fit for human consumption official stamp, would you stamp i?
Eating RTA deer
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Bo Diddley
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30-40 years ago my local game dealer would take in roadkill, any tom - dick or harry used to pick up a roe that looked ok and get £20 for it, sometimes the game dealer would say it was too bad, and you could either leave it or take it away, if you left it they invariably tried to take some meat off it.
8x57
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I've seen something similar to this in the past. One morning the stalker/game dealer was driving down the road just before Christmas when demand for venison was high and stopped to look at a deer that had been knocked down a week before with the intention of salvaging what he could. "Nah just a bit too green" was his comment so he left it there. I found it rather worrying and decided that I would never ever buy an game from him unless I actually shot it myself.
Stalker-of-the-deer
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Personally I wouldn't. You didn't observe the deer before it got hit.
You don't know how long ite been there other than "it's fresh"
And ontop of the the meat would be bruised to buggery and I bet the gut content has probably spilt inside the carcass somewhere....
I worked for grounds at the local authority and was forever pulling them off the road by far the best one was a roe buck that had been hit by a quarry wagon speeding and then run over by every single hgv outside York, bits of it absolutely everywhere. When I got back the manager said - did you keep it I wanted some venison
You don't know how long ite been there other than "it's fresh"
And ontop of the the meat would be bruised to buggery and I bet the gut content has probably spilt inside the carcass somewhere....
I worked for grounds at the local authority and was forever pulling them off the road by far the best one was a roe buck that had been hit by a quarry wagon speeding and then run over by every single hgv outside York, bits of it absolutely everywhere. When I got back the manager said - did you keep it I wanted some venison
baguio
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That comment makes no sense at all.
Rake Aboot
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Amazing how many would waste good meat because some course tells them it needs a stamp 
Even if you only trim a few kilos from it , it’s still a lot of good usable venison.
Maybe I should have been vac packing it first to make it look like real food
Even if you only trim a few kilos from it , it’s still a lot of good usable venison.
Maybe I should have been vac packing it first to make it look like real food
I thought all deer entering the food chain had to be observed and killed by legal means. Why when we have an overpopulation of deer would you even contemplate it. If you jointed it up and put it in your freezer would you label it road kill so if your best friend came round and wanted a joint of venison you didnt give him it by mistake.I understand it is a waste. People who read these comments by Stalkers and Farmers on this might well be horrified that Road kill is deemed fit to eat or even be served to them.
We are trying to promote venison.
Would a slaughterhouse process an animal that died on the lorry ?
We are trying to promote venison.
Would a slaughterhouse process an animal that died on the lorry ?
Good point on the public visibility aside from just the SD. Clearly I’m taking from my grandmother’s WW2 ‘waste not want not’ attitude! Or I’m getting too sentimental…
For any public clarity, it was transported in a separate (labelled) container, gralloched and butchered using different knives to any other animals of course, put into different bags and all cross contamination avoided and anything to do with it labelled. Treated like a biohazard all the way through; just in case it was.
Rake Aboot
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A bit precious no ?
For a start no one has said anything about selling , only eating.
Secondly , your mistaken idea that road kill deer is obviously in some way tainted is wrong
As has been proven by myself many many times over the years.
Ranger6555
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if you shoot a deer that is not alerted to your prescence and your bullet placement is right invariably it will drop on the spot. If it is alerted to your present the adrenaline kicks in and it will run. its the old 'fight or flight' syndrome
gelert
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Just seen this on the Dyfed Powys Police facebook page.
"We’re appealing for the person who has picked up a dead deer on the A458 Golfa straight to please contact us ... do not consume it as it is a health risk.
Officers were called to the road at 6.50am, where a car had collided with a deer around one mile from Welshpool. Sadly, the deer was badly injured and had to be put down by a vet.
Some time between 8am and 8.50am the deer has been removed from the road by a member of the public. Due to the level of medication administered by the vet, the deer is a health risk and we’re concerned the person who found it might plan to eat it.
If this was you, please call 101 and an officer will come and collect the animal to be properly disposed of"
"We’re appealing for the person who has picked up a dead deer on the A458 Golfa straight to please contact us ... do not consume it as it is a health risk.
Officers were called to the road at 6.50am, where a car had collided with a deer around one mile from Welshpool. Sadly, the deer was badly injured and had to be put down by a vet.
Some time between 8am and 8.50am the deer has been removed from the road by a member of the public. Due to the level of medication administered by the vet, the deer is a health risk and we’re concerned the person who found it might plan to eat it.
If this was you, please call 101 and an officer will come and collect the animal to be properly disposed of"
I have posted this on off topic before seeing this
gelert
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great minds dickie
I was driving past at 0745 and police and vet were there. Just at the time the vet was filling lethal injection. I can’t understand why it was left there after it had been dispatched by the vet.
I know the Farmer so will message him incase he’s taken it without knowing.
Stalker62
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If a vet was called to dispatch the deer he should have tagged it accordingly. He won’t take it with him. Up to the local council/roads service to remove it.
DG
seriously , look at what a game dealer will pay maximum for a perfect beast with declaration from a stalker ....... And people actual risk road kill? stalking folks at that ? I have took just one and that was scumming to the illegal use of shotgun by a poacher . I gave it a long rolling boil . I knew it was gonna be a while before i got out again as it was actually a house move day . Caught a big salmon first thing in the morning , called back to sort the deer between ferrying stuff from the other house .
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