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cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 11:57 am Post subject: Road Kill

I've always been a little tentative about eating roadkill. The twice I've eaten it, it's been something I've just seen hit; the first one was a pheasant that was rear ended by a car two in front of one I was in as a passenger, and the second was also a pheasant, clipped by a car as it tried to fly low over a road, landing not far from me as I walked along the footpath.

Both were delicious.

Is there anything else that might be worth chewing on? What else is edible and good? What do I -really- need to avoid and why?

alison
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Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 12918
Location: North Devon

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: Road Kill

Cab wrote:

What do I -really- need to avoid and why?

squashed maggoty ones.

sorry I couldn't resist.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 2:32 pm Post subject:
Rabbit, pheasant, woodpigeon, partridge, deer maybe. Personally, unless I had seen it getting walloped I would be dubious about eating it. Plus, I wouldn't eat a rabbit that lived in obvious proximity to a major road.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Nov 12, 04 9:48 pm Post subject:
Jonnyboy, I just ate a steak from a bulock that lived within mooing distance of the A14. Best steak I've had in a long time. Why should eating a rabbit from close to a similar road be an issue?

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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Posted: Thu Nov 18, 04 11:49 am Post subject:

I've still got some muntjac in the freezer that was picked up from a back road in Bucks. If it's still warm, I can't see a problem, though a mangled carcasse isn't as pleasant to deal with as a clean side-swipe. One thing to watch, though, is that blunt trauma gets a lot of blood into the tissues near the impact, which can make the meat dark and bitter. You may have to sacrifice some of the meat to the dog (but watch out for bone splinters).

Legion

Joined: 24 Nov 2004
Posts: 170
Location: Western isles, Scotland

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 04 9:57 pm Post subject:

Never ever eat yourself or feed to your pets ROAD KILL. The animal could look harmless enough BUT, it may have been left as bait by a gamekeeper or similar and contain poison, it could have been poisoned which slowed it down hence it got run over, there are and a hundred million other reasons, why not to pick up and eat road kill. BEWARE!!!I wold never touch it let alone pick it up - the only time I pick up road kill , is if its fresh, an 'otter or similar' (got 3 in my freezer at the moment) and worthy of taxidermy..otherwise leave it where it is.
Legion.

Guest

Posted: Fri Nov 26, 04 8:32 am Post subject:
oi one of thems mine

Guest

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 04 3:40 pm Post subject:
You should eat road kill if you killed it yourself!!!

Legion

Joined: 24 Nov 2004
Posts: 170
Location: Western isles, Scotland

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 04 5:46 pm Post subject:
even if it might have been poisoned? silly comment - never eat road kill - period!! or feed it to your animals. The risk just isnt worth it, it may appear healthy, indeed it may be healthy, but its just not worth it on a gamble.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Dec 09, 04 5:51 pm Post subject:
I thought that was pretty sound advice from Legion there, I hadn't even thought of that.

High Green Farm

Joined: 30 Nov 2004
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Location: Mid-Suffolk

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 10:12 am Post subject:
Can I make an obvious comment here. If you were responsible for the kill, then why wouldn't you eat it? Surely there is no more chance that the pheasant that you hit with the car is poisoned, than the pheasant that you shoot on your land is?

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 10:15 am Post subject:

Cab wrote:

Jonnyboy, I just ate a steak from a bulock that lived within mooing distance of the A14. Best steak I've had in a long time. Why should eating a rabbit from close to a similar road be an issue?

Same reason I wouldn't pick wild plants from roadside verges, there could be a concentration of pollutants from exhausts etc. I may be wrong but it would seem prudent.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 10:45 am Post subject:
Jonnyboy, ever notice all the farm-fields along by all of the major roads in the country? It's unavoidable. To set your mind at rest, or at least to get the best info you can on this, take a gander at: https://www.food.gov.uk/science/surveillance/maffinfo/2000/maff-2000-199

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
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Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 11:08 am Post subject:
That's useful. It's interesting that wild blackberries still contain less pollutants than farmed ones.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45704
Location: Essex

Posted: Fri Dec 10, 04 11:09 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

It's interesting that wild blackberries still contain less pollutants than farmed ones.

You're joking

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