Why Wouldn't It Just Fly Away

[Japher]

It's legal to take road kill in Idaho... but I think it counts against your limit.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk
It's easy enough.

First, make sure none of the musk glands were popped, because if they were, you can walk away at that point.

After a cursory exam to see if anything is recoverable, slit the belly and remove the viscera, as that's just dead weight, unless you have dogs. This would be a good time to remove anything else you consider inedible, for the same reason. Toss it in the bushes for the local wildlife to enjoy.

Take it to a butcher who knows how to dress game.


You may want to check local and state regulations.

If its big enough to cause a dent and its edible, I'm going to get something out of it.

[The Mad Monk]

The annual venison dinner sponsored by the gun club my father belonged to in New Jersey used roadkill venison donated by the state's conservation agency.

[Dis]

here's where I admit I'm a city boy.

I have no idea how you would convert an animal into useful meat.

In fact the whole process seems pretty disgusting. Eating meat seems disgusting. Yet hamburgers and chicken sandwhiches taste so good...

[DRoseDARs]

Quail: The Avian Lemming.

We have aproximately 84 quintillion of them per square mile here in Reno. Yet, I've never seen a dead one despite their favorite game of playing Chicken with cars and trucks. Go figure.



Incidently, I was walking to the building my Thursday class is in and I noticed above me a magpie chasing after an owl. The owl flew right into the second story windows of the building I was going to. It hovered there for a moment before falling to the ground. It got up and was definitely dazed. The magpie landed nearby and kinda bothered it, hopping back and forth pecking at it. I didn't see the rest of the performance as I had to get to class but they were both long gone by the time I got out.

[Lancer]

"I break for everything bigger than a great dane "

I definately did brake for that huge elk. It wasn't like a deer, it pranced like a horse. Hitting one at any speed is the end for your vehicle. I've even heard of them killing drivers with their hooves, though that might just be legend.

DRoseDARs, have you ever eaten quail? I've heard they are good, but small. You need a 'brace' of them, whatever that is.

[DRoseDARs]

No, I have not.

[The Mad Monk]

I may have had quail once, but if I did, it was not very memorable.

smoked pheasant, on the other hand, is quite good.

[Provost Harrison]

I went over a pigeon the other week in my car. It was defiant, it would not move, it thought I should drive somewhere else and it was staying put. It stayed put, embedded into tarmac

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
I went over a pigeon the other week in my car. It was defiant, it would not move, it thought I should drive somewhere else and it was staying put. It stayed put, embedded into tarmac

You were driving through an airport?

[Provost Harrison]

What?

[DRoseDARs]

Oh, I get it now. This is another one of those British versus USAmerican English things, isn't it?

[DRoseDARs]

Tarmac = pavement for runways and taxiways in airports

[Provost Harrison]

Can be, but it is also the material used to surface roads...

[DRoseDARs]

...otherwise known as asphalt.