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Roadkill- Pheasant
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Is it ok to pick up a roadkill pheasant to take home to eat.
How can you tell if it is safe to consume.
What needs to be done to prepare it if it is ok Ie gutting etc
How can you tell if it is safe to consume.
What needs to be done to prepare it if it is ok Ie gutting etc
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If it's absolutely fresh, it's okay - we used to have pairs of cars going around the 'ampshire lanes, the first one killing, the second to pick them up, the law being the first car can't pick it up....don't know if that is still the case.
Conventional gut and crop out and pluck - and it's fine. If in doubt, good dog food perhaps.
Conventional gut and crop out and pluck - and it's fine. If in doubt, good dog food perhaps.
Don't see why not as long as it is not too badly damaged. My friends who go shooting and occasionally pass a brace of pheasants to me only eat the breasts but as I am extremely stingy I use all of the bird. First of all you have to cut off the head, legs and wings then you peel off the skin which will come away with the feathers on. Wash well, and widen the opening at the bottom to remove the insides (not pleasant). Wash again and boil in a large saucepan for an hour or two. Then remove all the meat from the bones and if possible mince
them as there are small bones which you can remove while mincing.
them as there are small bones which you can remove while mincing.
As with any pheasant, but especially for road-killed birds, the best way to prepare them is simply skin, gut and nail the carcass to a 5 inch by 12 inch cedar board... place in the oven for at least an hour, remove, take the pheasant off and throw it away (far away)... eat the board... sauce to your taste, of course...
Pheasants will quite often run along the ground rather than fly, that is why they have beaters to beat the bushes and make them fly up to get shot at, poor little things. Personally, I could not shoot anything but will eat it if someone else has shot it. They are easy to road kill because of this, they do not realise the car is going to kill them so they stay on the ground.