eating road kill.

i live in an area with a lot of wild life. last night, i took the dog for a walk and, we came upon a group of deer eating the acorns well, they all took off when they saw us. a truck was comming down the road and, hit and killed one of the deer. the driver did not even stop or come back. i went home got my cart, came back and loaded up the deer and brought her back home. now, i got a frezzer full of venison for the winter! how is that for a free lunch.

 

I stop for any pheasants I hit, I'd eat any deer if I knew it was fresh!

 

See, when I saw the thread title, I immediately thought of old possum cooked in the sun for four hours in 90 degree weather in July...

But this- this is okay.

 

i'd eat roadkill if i knew it was fresh. also, venison is delicious.

 

Good score. You are all set now.

 

Yum!

On the subject however, lets not forget that it's important as a general rule to observe the Animal we plan to eat prior to killing it, watch for signs of normal or healthy activity. Avoid the sluggish and sickly acting ones.

But if you're absolutely desperate and on the verge of starving then even that Possum might not be such a bad idea. Of course if you're that bad off to eat 2 day old, Sun baked Possum, you should probably be out looking for work of any kind or working in your garden as opposed to reading this thread.

But nice "ground score" on that Deer!

Crap, now I want to go Hunting.

 

Wow. Gross.
We have a hunter in the family. He's been bringing home Canadian geese that I've been baking into pies. It's really wonderful.

 

In some states you need a special license for that.

My question is, if it is pretty cold out, might a kill be good even if it is a couple days old? Or does the lack of field dressing spoil the meat?

 

Frozen pretty cold, or mid 50's pretty cold? Cant say with certainty, but I'd use stricter guidelines for saftey purposes with roadkill than I would for storebought meat which has undergone a long list of treatments to kill off bacteria, not to mention the cxonstant supply of antibiotics in it's "diet" prior to becoming Porterhouse.

I've been told by a few sources essentially a good rule of thumb for the non-starving opportunist is "If it's lost all body heat, better find some fresher meat."

 

When I lived in Montana if you hit a deer or any kind of large editable animal you supposed to call DOW immediately and they would come get it and have it butcher if it was any good and give it to the soup kitchens.

 

Thats pretty cool they do that, althou my thoughts would be that unless they were gonna be fixing the damage to my car in a fair exchange, it would be mine plain and simple (The DOT's have repair shops usualy where they could do it.).

But I'd definatly not mind sharing up there as I recall Deer are about as common as potholes are in Chicago.

 

^Yeah I’ve known a couple of people who hit deer and kept the deer and they would say “ this deer cost me $3000.” (in car damage)

I saw a nice healthy deer get hit by my home the other year I felt like cutting off the good rear quarter but I’m not sure if that's legal in Colorado the police came shortly after and I was high on shrooms so I wasn’t asking.

 

wow, ive been around dead animals people hunt my whole life. when i was a kid, i remember not being allowed to go to the garage during hunting seasons because my graqndpa and dad and older brother turned the garage into a skinning and de boning center for all their catchings. i remember when i snuck in one time, the ground was coverd in paper bags and lots of blood and i remember the smell of dead animal, and blood. i even have pictures of my old swing set that was made by my grandfather and dad and they would turn it into a goose holding pole in the winter too.

also my father has deer fur, deer skelatons and a taxodermied deer head and neck laying around the house. i do know that when they hunted something, they never wasted any parts which is a positive note even though im a vegan today

 

as a vegetarian, i find some of this somewhat disturbing. but, on the other hand, it beats factory farming, which, by the way, is insanely cruel and disgusting.

 

Yea, I never got the concept behind "thrill-killing" just for the sake of the hunt. If yer' gonna take a life, show some respect for it and make the most of it's remains. You should see if Grandpa can make you some Bone meal in case you do any gardening.

 

my grandpop is dead now. he died in febuary in 2005 from acute lukemia

 

I really don’t like death killing blood and guts,

but when that’s all done and all the nice meat is in the kitchen yummy...

 

My belated condolences Veroness, but if he's got leftovers from his hunting day's, mabey look into it via' Google. Being as he beleived in "Putting it all to use" I'm sure he'd be proud of his Grandbaby's efforts to give back as much as possible to nature.

 

oh i want to work on my garden
i wish it was warm outside
im so miserable
i want it to be warm
i want to planntt plant plant

 

Well Kansas, it would be a good time to add compost for spring, or mabey try some winter crops out?

http://wintersown.org/wseo1/index.html

And just remember, it may be cold when you start tilling and sowing, but you'll be plenty warm by the time you're done.