Pheasant

bouicca21

Thanks all. YouTube did indeed come up trumps for instructions on preparing them.  Made a bit of a mess of the first one but I’d got the hang of it for the second. I really don’t have anywhere to hang them, which is a pity, so both are now sitting in my fridge. Presumably heart and liver are edible?  

t14cy_t

hung for a week will give its full flavour. the more hung the gamier the flavour.

elsien

OP has already said they have nowhere to hang it, so it’s not entirely helpful to keep repeating that hanging improves the flavour when that option simply isn’t available. 

bouicca21

I’m working on the principle that even chicken tastes a bit gamey if it’s kept a bit longer than advised (queen of the yellow stickers, me), so keeping the pheasants in the fridge for a few days might substitute for hanging.  

Wraithlady

bouicca21 said:

 Presumably heart and liver are edible?  

Yes, they are according to Google

Viking_mfw

Whitefiver said:

Our neighbour, who used to occasionally shoot, used to cut the breasts off and remove the skin and feathers from those. He reckoned that was all that was really worth eating. You don't need to worry about plucking then either.

This is what my family do too.