how to tell if a deer has spoiled???

You should not gut a road killed deer.

It's usually a mess inside and the gasses are horrible to say the least.:eek:

If you want to do good on an otherwise wasted animal, check the eyes, and look for green belly.
If all is clear, cut out the back straps(striploins) and back legs if not too mangled?
You can do it all right there in the ditch in a matter of minutes, and drag the rest off into the nearest bush. The coyotes and other vermine will still be happy with the leftovers.:cool:

It's a lot more sensible than taking a badly damaged carcass home.
 
i used to grab the odd road kill deer after calling it in... makes some wicked dog food an yote bait.... most have alot of internal damage like rib's shatterd an pokin thru the gut's an such... i'd pull the back 1/4's off as the rest is useually pretty nasty except the neck has lotsa protein and crunchy goodness for dog food.

lol.... had a old flat top wood stove out in the yard that i'd fire up around 4pm in the winter, 10gal stock pot with a heapin helpin of bone-in meat, bit of water, horse oat's, pearl barley, bit of cracked wheat and simmer to perfection... spoiled dog's :D
 
Eagle160 said:
Pass on eating roadkill unless you're starving. Too many opportunities for additonal internal trauma and spillage of all the nasty gut contents.
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There is nothing wrong with eating most roadkill. Like someone else said...if you shot a deer and couldn't find it before the next
morning (even gut shot) are you trying to tell me that you wouldn't eat it?? I will not pick up random roadkill though. I have to
have an idea when it got hit. Either a phone call from the person who hit it, or a car on the side of the road. Or even the next
morning on a road I traveled the night before. Its still good meat why waste it?
Around here you are lucky to even find roadkill...usually 5 pickups on the scene within 15 minutes looking for meat.:cool:
 
OK, a spoiled deer will not work , for any reason. It will ask for it's own dredit card on your account and spend it frivolously on Tinks69, vanilla licks, salt licks and maybe even a blow up decoy (heh, heh). It will also live in Quebec and every time it doesn't get it's own way....it'll threaten to separate, without any intention to do so because then it won't be able to use your credit card anymore.
Oh...you were talking about meat? Oh in that case it gets a weird sheen and stink near the bone. It's that easy.
 
give it up with the "picking up roadkill is illegal" and "you must report it to the mnr":rolleyes: my grandparents lived through the depression eating pigeons and home grown food and they taught me to never waste food. i guess that stuck in my brain just a little too much:D if theres a roadkill deer that is possibly still good, im taking it to check it out.

thanks for the USEFUL posts to the rest though. these ones were not bloated, only the buck had a 4" gas on him, and a couple ribs were broken. besides that they looked to be in good shape.

ill be on the lookout for the rest of the week...highs below 0 and down to -7 or colder at night.
 
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YUUUUM....roadkill. And some of you would leave this to rot...come on :eek:
 
Nothing wrong with roadkill!
As long as you have an idea of when it was smacked and it doesn't feel like a sack of broken glass, no problem.
I bow hunt and gun hunt deer succesfully and I will still take a road-kill if called, mind you, I don't take them all;)
 
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