fit to eat?

[tegater 789]

Just had to shoot injured roe, hot my car.

 

Damage to meat aside, is meat fit to eat, pr will adrenaline have ruined it?

Thanks.

 

 

[riohog 5,708]

guess you bled it , anyway there will be bruising if it was hit the meat will eat ,,put some curry powder on when you cook it itl be fine wont harm you

[lapin2008 1,587]

depends on the internal damage as well, often the guts burst with the impact, so most likely could do with a rinse on the inside...lol

No reason why it wont be edible even if the guts have burst

[tegater 789]

Thanks lads

[Caprelous 217]

The carcass more than likely will be bruised and badly blooded if the internal rumen has been punctured ,the green contents will have already contaminated the inside of the carcass with bacteria..

 

The chemical contained within its bloodstream through the stress will more than likely have imparted a taste to it.

 

If its for yourself and you actually witnessed the RTA then it may be fit for consumption but must not be placed into the food chain at a game establishment.

 

You need to be certain that a vet had not attended the scene and injected it to prevent suffering as if you did eat it it would kill you. Hardly likely though these days as vets now have a responsibility to remove a carcass that's been injected as such cases in the past has led to death of the persons making most of the carcass.

 

Personally I would not eat it but it depends on extent of contamination and damage to the carcass , If you have dogs it would make a good meal for them though pending it not being injected of course.

 

How hungry are you :D

[IanB 0]

Picked a few up from the roadside, depending on injury they can be ok, if the stomach has been ruptured as mentioned, I'd ditch the deer, or use for dog food..

[paulus 26]

could always put the joints in salted water for a day just to be on the safe side, if theres no significant damage it will be fine, just feed the bruised bits to the mutts

[tegater 789]

Thanks again everyone. The deer had not been injected by any vet, and had been knocked over by a woman in a car about 20 mins earlier.

 

When I gralloched and skinned it there was bleeding in the chest cavity, but no visible damage to any of the internal organs. (I shot it in the head with AAA.)

One foreleg and one rear leg were broken, but the other side seems fine.

 

Seems a shame to waste it, so I think I will give it a go, after hanging it for a few days.

 

If you don't here from me again, you will know it killed me!!

[sikastag_1 689]

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Edited September 3, 2019 by grant_c

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Must be a shortage of deer around you mate as i would never dream of eating road kill no matter how slight the injury .You never saw the animals behaviour before death as in stalking therefore cannot say whether it was ,on first seeing it,a fit animal or not. I would class the carcass as contaminated and destroy .

[tegater 789]

Must be a shortage of deer around you mate as i would never dream of eating road kill no matter how slight the injury .You never saw the animals behaviour before death as in stalking therefore cannot say whether it was ,on first seeing it,a fit animal or not. I would class the carcass as contaminated and destroy .

Yea we dont get many roe in the Dark Peak, and most of the ones we see, we leave, as very often they are just crossing the backbone of England to get to the other side! Usually see them when lamping charlie. In all honesty I like to see them, and we even get the occasional red.

 

I am a little bit old school in the fact, that I never waste anything that I would usually class as food for free-thats just the way I was brought up.

 

On examination of the animal, the internal organs, liver, lungs, kidneys, heart etc look in perfect condition, as you would expect from a young buck, and the woman who hit it said it just ran out in front of her.

 

However I take your point on not knowing anything else about it, prior to its accident.

 

Thanks for the reply

[hellyer189 93]

there was a program on channel 4 called a guide to penny pinching or something like that and a guy on there lived off road kill, birds squrillel deer rabbits hares ect. he looked healthy

[tegater 789]

there was a program on channel 4 called a guide to penny pinching or something like that and a guy on there lived off road kill, birds squrillel deer rabbits hares ect. he looked healthy

 

When I was a lad, we often eat deer that had been hit by cars, the question in this case was weather the chemicals whizzing around its body, after the accident and before it death would have ruined it.

 

I am guessing, that an injured deer that is then tracked by a dog and dispatched, would also experience the same chemical dump.

 

Out of interest, are deer that have been killed in this way allowed to enter the commercial food chain?

[kenny14 656]

I've eaten plenty of Deer that could be termed to have been 'stressed' just prior to death, and the meat's been no different to that from a cleanly shot animal.

In fact in the past, Bulls were baited (and therefore obviously 'stressed') in order to improve the quality of the meat, which was considered to be far superior to that from a quickly killed animal.

Many people also considered a hare to taste better after a lengthy course.

[wireviz 8]

Go for it mate it wont do you no harm and the fact that you did not witness its actions before it died would put you on a par with many many so called deer stalkers who shoot the second a deer steps into a fire brake or clearing. Please lads remember BP is a guide no a set of hard and fast rules or laws.