Road-kill deer question

We take them straight to the butchers, and then hang them by the legs, gut them take the cape off and cut the head/legs off then wash the deer out with cold water ASAP.
 
Same thing, last year about this time, I got a road-killed doe who was just about to drop her fawn. The daytime weather was hot (over 20 for sure). The deer had run into a car at night, broke her neck and died more or less instantly. I got to the dead deer perhaps thirty minutes after that happened. I gutted the doe in the ditch where she had died, brought her straight home and hung/skinned it, and cut the meat first thing the next morning. It would have been preferable to hang it in a cooler, but anyways the meat was just fine, albeit bloody.

Doug
 
There is an aboriginal group in the North, I forget which one, may be the Dene people of the Western Arctic, who do (or did) eat the fetus. It is fed to the older people, who find it easier to chew and to digest. I am not making this up. People who lived off the land for generations would not be wasting any edible meat..........

I am not certain that in this day of McDonalds everyhere, and widely available canned/frozen/freeze dried foods that those people still eat the fetus, probably not. Pity............

Doug
 
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