Road-kill pheasant, advice please.

creased-leach

Ok, methinks we'll have one for tea tomorrow. Is there any difference twixt the sexes, taste wise? Or is that a really daft question.

I'm thinking that maybe for the first one it may be an idea to just use the breasts? Well, I'd give the rest to the dog/cats, rather than waste it

I've never eaten game before- it's exciting & oddly nerve wracking at the same time.

choille

Lovely brown meat. No difference btw M or F - only bigger mammals taste different re sex, such as deer. Males have to be shot when they're not rutting as the tostestorone [sp?] really taints the meat.

Males are a stronger tasting meat in mammals, unless they've been castrated!

Game birds are tasty, but you shouldn't shoot them until the Glorious 12th, before that they may still be breeding or raising a brood.

Road kill is contentious - I don't do it, but can understand how it is a good thing. Wasteful not to & encourages vermin, but would certainly never touch badger & the like as I watched a guy doing on a programme on the TV.

Road kill is bashed to death usually & like a bad shot taints the meat, bruises it & also if not a clean kill, adrenalin gets pumped around which taints & toughens the meat. Also not good to eat nor adrenaline - bad chemical - sorry for my poor spelling here, getting tired.

We've hit deer with the car & been tempted, but never stuck it in the back for the freezer, but on a drive past later on someone has, it's been vanished - so good for them. Each time we actually hit the deer - it was an instant death - so the meat would of been okay apart from the actual impact sight - sorry if this is too graphic, but it's quite an interesting subject & quite MSE too.

Story I got told; A lorry driver hit a 12 pointer stag. Stoppped & dragged the carcase into his cab for putting in his freezer. A few miles down on the A9 it came round............:eek:
Be warned.

bigjon1968

Also following this thread with interest, as the gamekeeper on the estate where I live has promised me a couple. I'm hoping he will prepare them for me first though! lol

RAS

choille wrote: »

Story I got told; A lorry driver hit a 12 pointer stag. Stopped & dragged the carcase into his cab for putting in his freezer. A few miles down on the A9 it came round............:eek:
Be warned.

Ouch.

Re the legal side, I understand that poaching by car is as illegal as poaching any other way. So generally it is better to pick up what others have hit as there is no way you can be accused of poaching it.