Road Kill, ever tried it?

[Annielou]

Hubby came accross a doe on the way home yesterday we live in a very forrested area and they often come and eat the windfall apples in the garden. It had a broken leg and was still warm when he found it, we have butchered it (it had what looked like a damaged kidney as well and blood in the chest cavity)and put it in the freezer with a thought to giving it to the dogs. People are saying we should eat it but i'm not sure!

[Totally Scrambled]

If it was a fresh kill and died of injuries rather than disease and looks otherwise healthy then it should be alright to eat.
Dom

[wendy]

We have eaten a munkjack deer [s] in the same circumstances. But nothing else.
Wendy

[chrispn]

Hi we have always eaten road kill we live in a nice country village and come across phesants rabbits and the odd deer and if thay are still warm and not danaged to much me and the boys eat it or if it looks too damaged it goes to the dogs,and ferrets so no waste so try it and if you like it then enjoy.

[Mo]

We found a pheasant and tried it. But didn't discover till after we'd draw and plucked it that it should have been 'hung'. So it was tough.
Do you need to hang deer?

[wendy]

We did for a week, not hang it, but just put it at the bottom of the fridge.
Wendy

[Annielou]

We didn't hang it I didn't want to attract foxes to the house it was in the bottom of the fridge for 48 hours, i'm thinking to caserole it or make sausages so won't really matter if it's a bit tough!!
Thanks for your replies.

[Babycakes]

I have been tempted, I'm seeing phesants every day now on my way to and from work. If I hot one myself, I think I would pick it up because I'd be sure it's fresh.
A friend of my dads did it once. He clipped the pheasant's head with his bumper, so decided to take it home for sunday dinner as it was a "clean" kill. He opened his boot half an hour later in inner city Belfast to find one extremely hacked off male pheasant that had only been stunned

[foghornleghorn2]

I have been tempted, I'm seeing phesants every day now on my way to and from work. If I hot one myself, I think I would pick it up because I'd be sure it's fresh.
A friend of my dads did it once. He clipped the pheasant's head with his bumper, so decided to take it home for sunday dinner as it was a "clean" kill. He opened his boot half an hour later in inner city Belfast to find one extremely hacked off male pheasant that had only been stunned

OK so what happened next ?

[Babycakes]

I believe the man in question also had his golf clubs in the boot, and decided he was having his sunday roast one way or another....I dont know of he managed to catch it or not!!

[Richard]

Try looking at Fergus the Foragers web site. He lives in Kent and did a couple of TV programmes where he went to look for roadkill etc.

http://www.wildmanwildfood.com/

[Sunny B]

I have had a couple of things in the past, but only when I have seen them being hit by someone ahead of me.

I was tempted in the summer by a plump rabbit I saw on verge on the way to the beach, so I lobbed it in the car, having checked it was still warm.

Having set up my workstation in the garden with chopping board, secateurs, knife and rubber gloves I slit the belly - only to discover that it must have been warm because of the sun on it, and it was plump because it was starting to break down inside

So you do have to be very careful! Also a bit put off by the last episode of Doc Martin.

But did anyone see the episode of Top Gear when the boys were on an American road trip and had to find road kill for their supper? Classic!

[Teasal]

If you hit the pheasant with your car, legally you cannot pick it up. But the person following you could. We have a lot of pheasants round here, and so long as I had seen it killed by a car in front, or it was still warm, I would have no problem. I have grabbed rabbits off the dogs and eaten those. Also a big wild duck hit the electric power lines and virtually landed at my feet, so that was very fresh indeed.

I saw a massive deer lying by the side of the road, early one morning on my way to work. Coming back I looked, and it had gone. Someone either had a big van or pick up!!

[foghornleghorn2]

I believe the man in question also had his golf clubs in the boot, and decided he was having his sunday roast one way or another....I dont know of he managed to catch it or not!!

Would you recommend a wood or putter in a situation like that.

What a great story

I can just imagine them staring at each other like Basil and the rat in Fawlty towers.

[spudley]

to check if its fresh. look out on the roads on your way to work, if there is nothing on the way into work and there is on your way home its day fresh. The shoting season has just started around us and the shoots have all released the phesants so at the moment its a bit of a phesant flood. Apparently one large shoot rears about 70,000 birds and they only manage to bag about 35,-40,000 so thats a lot of road kill left.

we hit a rabbit on the way home the other night but were too squeemish to stop and pick it up. its a bit of a waste really as the dogs would have loved it