alamcculloch:
I have often taken a dead pheasent home and cooked it. Once you cut off the head and feet then pull off the feathers there isnt much left.
is this your way of telling us that your actually a pheasant plucker?
for pheasant,just remove the breast and bin the rest.makes no odds if its been hung or not.ive hung them for months,and shot them in the morn,and eaten them in the evening,they taste just the same.
if your going to prepare them its easier doing it standing in a burn and the water removes all the mess as you pluck it.
raymundo:
Few years ago I picked up a pheasant I hit and quickly put it in the passenger footwell, few minutes later the bloody thing came alive again as it must have been only stunned and was flapping around, crap and feathers everywhere and believe me a birds wing is bleedin panful around the side of yer head !! pulled over and opened the door and he was gone but the chap in the car behind me was having a right laugh at me …
No, I am not the pheasant plucker I am the pheasant pluckers son etc.Preparing them in a burn or stream would reduce the amount of mess. It would be a case of killing 2 birds with one stone.
Captain Caveman 76:
As I recall, you’re not allowed to take anything you’ve hit yourself, that would be classed as poaching.
crazy law,if you hit and kill a deer the car coming up behind is legally allowed to put it in his /her car boot and take it home,curious to know how much their meat is worth if you took it to a butcher,being an aqquired taste it must be worth around a £100 or more,am I wrong or right cos a butcher would make good money from sales I reckon
raymundo:
Few years ago I picked up a pheasant I hit and quickly put it in the passenger footwell, few minutes later the bloody thing came alive again as it must have been only stunned and was flapping around, crap and feathers everywhere and believe me a birds wing is bleedin panful around the side of yer head !! pulled over and opened the door and he was gone but the chap in the car behind me was having a right laugh at me …
I think that’s what happened her the swan tried to get out
One Pigeon came at me legs up & wings out straight at my windscreen edged to the centre of the road to avoid it and it took my mirror cover off on my Merc…Luckily you can buy just that part so £120 later and a bit of soldering back on the road…
Then a dozy peasant or pheasant decides to “dart or not to dart” in front of me on the A47…then she goes for it…as these are low flying birds could not get far and I wacked him with my headlight…£1000 replacement unit lucky for me the Chinese make replacement lenses so for £130 later and a lot of faffing about fixed the bugger…
Moral of the story don’t try to avoid birds at any cost…
Freight Dog:
There was a big big animal lover and he was driving down a desert road and a rabbit suddenly jumped in front of his car. He ran over and killed it stone dead. He pulled over got out of his car and he looked at the bunny and started crying. Then this other car came into view, saw what was happening and pulled over. A man got out and said “Don’t worry, I think I have just the thing!” . He opened his boot and pulled out a bottle of liquid. He opened up the bottle and poured it all over the Rabbit. The rabbit jumped up and started hopping down the street. Then it turned and around and waved. And hopped. And then waved again. Every few feet he would stop and wave until he went off into the sunset.
The man turned to the other man and said “That was amazing how did you do that? What is in that bottle.” And the man handed him the bottle and it said “Hare Restored Permanent Wave Solution.”
don’t pay to report a dead deer either,i came across a dead one around 0700 one day,i thought someone is going to hit that if they are not looking as it was a large deer,so thought I would do the decent thing and call the non emergency number thinking they would get the highways out to clear it,wish I never bothered,i was kept talking about ten min while they asked my name,address,DOB,and some stupid questions about what I thought about their service,i’m surprised they didn’t ask me to wait while they sent someone to take my DNA that’s how ridiculous it was.
Bluey Circles:
I used to pick road kill up, partial to a bit of pheasant. Then I learnt about how they are raised and they are just stuffed full of chemicals, they’re on high levels of antibiotis and drugs to prevent disease. They stop this medicated feed about 6 weeks before the season begins in the hope that they are fit for human consumption. So although I would still pick up road kill ‘in the season’ I wouldn’;t touch it at this time of the year.
If you grown an extra ear or something you will know the reason why
Does this apply for all game birds?
I think so, like all animals raised in unnaturally high densities parasites can become a major problem so they use medicated feed to control the parasites and the rules are they must stop the medicated feed 28 days before the shooting season begins as some of the drugs can be harmful to humans (esp a worming drug). They also stuff them full of anti-biotics
After learning this from a local game keeper I now only pick up road kill if I know they are shooting them. I live in a big shooting area so there is no shortage of dead pheasants - I nearly got hit by one when cycling, it was so close its wing touched my face, I reckon it would have brought me down if it had been a direct hit - then I may have been road kill for the foxes.
Bluey Circles:
I used to pick road kill up, partial to a bit of pheasant. Then I learnt about how they are raised and they are just stuffed full of chemicals, they’re on high levels of antibiotis and drugs to prevent disease. They stop this medicated feed about 6 weeks before the season begins in the hope that they are fit for human consumption. So although I would still pick up road kill ‘in the season’ I wouldn’;t touch it at this time of the year.
If you grown an extra ear or something you will know the reason why
