Comments on: How To Age Roadkill 101 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:34:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rich spirit http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-35242 rich spirit Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:15:51 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-35242 I got three road kill deer Oct 18th 09, On One, the biggest buck i ever have seen the Antlers were removed, I thought, probably an old kill. Feeling underneath the animal as I do to check for residual heat, it was warm. Location was shitty so I needed to load the thing. Must have been a site, me tugging at a 200 pound deer and trying to load it into my van, uhg! Found a place to dress out my deer without onlookers as if it were illegal!...gross-out most people anyways. So I am getting my hides for drums so I like them clean as possible. richspiritdrums.com After getting into a location out of site, a little prayer for the gift and a moment to calm, I cut along the belly from crotch to neck and from sternum to front knees and from crotch to hind knees. Cut around the legs at the knees. them I proceed to skin from the belly to the back working with the side up only. Animal is laying on the ground. Once skinned to the back I remove the front leg, the back strap, and the hind quarter. Then I will initiate/start the skinning of the down side and then flip and the deer over. Mostly I strech the hide out so as to keep meat from touching the ground. I finsh skinning the deer and remove the second front leg the back strap and hind quarter. Somtimes I will hang the meat in tree branches as it comes off and somtimes I get it right into plastic bags if I am prepared. Wash hands, knife and face when done, before reentry into car culture. Good to carry water 1/2 gallon or so. Check for blood on cloths/shoes before going in anywhere. I get it home with or without the hooves and set/hang it to dry and cure or until it is in the freezer which ever comes first. Recomend not getting the meat wet with water, If tainted with bile, flush it with water and dry it off and let to dry for a day in a cool environment. No saw is nessisary. Remember that most animals coming to feast on a dead deer will eat the ass end and the stomach first, these digestive enzymes are important to carnivours. Cut the meat from the bone and then cut into patties across the length of the grain of the muscle. Bag up in quart and gallon size freezer bags, flatten, and stack in the freezer. Keep one animals meat seperate from anothers and good from bad should you concieve there may be a difference. Make portions out for usablility, ie not too much/little in one bag. Try this, Lower Front leg meat is pritty tough so cut it across the grain every 1/2 inch and slow cook it in water for 24 to 28 hours. Then add vegatables and egg noodles to the soup. When noodes are done stop cooking and eat. This meat is rich and tender now. Why would some one stop to take just the antlers of a buck when the whole thing was still good, thats just evil. I was looking for deer to get. I got three and saw 9 between Lousville and Cincinnati. What ever happened to wildlife couridoors? Roadside death must be awful. Hope this helps. Rich Spirit I got three road kill deer Oct 18th 09, On One, the biggest buck i ever have seen the Antlers were removed, I thought, probably an old kill. Feeling underneath the animal as I do to check for residual heat, it was warm. Location was shitty so I needed to load the thing. Must have been a site, me tugging at a 200 pound deer and trying to load it into my van, uhg! Found a place to dress out my deer without onlookers as if it were illegal!…gross-out most people anyways. So I am getting my hides for drums so I like them clean as possible. richspiritdrums.com After getting into a location out of site, a little prayer for the gift and a moment to calm, I cut along the belly from crotch to neck and from sternum to front knees and from crotch to hind knees. Cut around the legs at the knees. them I proceed to skin from the belly to the back working with the side up only. Animal is laying on the ground. Once skinned to the back I remove the front leg, the back strap, and the hind quarter. Then I will initiate/start the skinning of the down side and then flip and the deer over. Mostly I strech the hide out so as to keep meat from touching the ground. I finsh skinning the deer and remove the second front leg the back strap and hind quarter. Somtimes I will hang the meat in tree branches as it comes off and somtimes I get it right into plastic bags if I am prepared. Wash hands, knife and face when done, before reentry into car culture. Good to carry water 1/2 gallon or so. Check for blood on cloths/shoes before going in anywhere.
I get it home with or without the hooves and set/hang it to dry and cure or until it is in the freezer which ever comes first. Recomend not getting the meat wet with water, If tainted with bile, flush it with water and dry it off and let to dry for a day in a cool environment.
No saw is nessisary.
Remember that most animals coming to feast on a dead deer will eat the ass end and the stomach first, these digestive enzymes are important to carnivours.
Cut the meat from the bone and then cut into patties across the length of the grain of the muscle.
Bag up in quart and gallon size freezer bags, flatten, and stack in the freezer. Keep one animals meat seperate from anothers and good from bad should you concieve there may be a difference. Make portions out for usablility, ie not too much/little in one bag.
Try this, Lower Front leg meat is pritty tough so cut it across the grain every 1/2 inch and slow cook it in water for 24 to 28 hours. Then add vegatables and egg noodles to the soup. When noodes are done stop cooking and eat. This meat is rich and tender now.
Why would some one stop to take just the antlers of a buck when the whole thing was still good, thats just evil.
I was looking for deer to get. I got three and saw 9 between Lousville and Cincinnati. What ever happened to wildlife couridoors? Roadside death must be awful.
Hope this helps. Rich Spirit

]]> By: DingyDebby http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-23310 DingyDebby Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:55:14 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-23310 I am 49 years old ,when I came across this on road kill :I couldn't help but cackle with laughter I Live in the tic and briar country of Oklahoma this is nothing new too the way of life with me infact I marinaded a coon in a brine made of apple juice and 1 c salt .1 c Brown sugar and 6 cloves I boiled the brine cooled it down and soaked the coon in it refridgerated for several days and then smoked it ,nothing finer than free meat ~>Deliscious , I get up about daylite to have coffee on one morning someone drove by in front and I heard a noice ,looked out and thought some one dumped a trash bag out front ;apon waaaaalking out to take a look there was to my surprice a big swamp rabbit ! yippee what a traet ,I have gathered many squirels for dumplings by keeping my eye out for road kill , I am 49 years old ,when I came across this on road kill :I couldn’t help but cackle with laughter I Live in the tic and briar country of Oklahoma this is nothing new too the way of life with me infact I marinaded a coon in a brine made of apple juice and 1 c salt .1 c Brown sugar and 6 cloves I boiled the brine cooled it down and soaked the coon in it refridgerated for several days and then smoked it ,nothing finer than free meat ~>Deliscious ,
I get up about daylite to have coffee on one morning someone drove by in front and I heard a noice ,looked out and thought some one dumped a trash bag out front ;apon waaaaalking out to take a look there was to my surprice a big swamp rabbit ! yippee what a traet ,I have gathered many squirels for dumplings by keeping my eye out for road kill ,

]]> By: charlie http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9800 charlie Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:37:25 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9800 I was carless for a year or so after leaving a VA homeless program. The problem is the buses would not take me to my family and friends. I was carless for a year or so after leaving a VA homeless program. The problem is the buses would not take me to my family and friends.

]]> By: Urban Scout http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9695 Urban Scout Fri, 04 Apr 2008 00:41:24 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9695 Hey M, FYI: Some bacteria excrete neuro-toxins that will not cook away. So even if you kill the living things, their poop can make you crazy. Haha. But yeah, I haven't heard much about that as a danger... just something to think about. Thanks for the tip on the bile/drying! Hey M,
FYI: Some bacteria excrete neuro-toxins that will not cook away. So even if you kill the living things, their poop can make you crazy. Haha. But yeah, I haven’t heard much about that as a danger… just something to think about. Thanks for the tip on the bile/drying!

]]> By: m http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9681 m Thu, 03 Apr 2008 19:01:13 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9681 nice post, scout. i have harvested aLOT of roadkill, have eaten meat with shit all over it that i just simply wiped off. the thing about bacteria is, when you cook it, they die. so it doesnt matter too much how long the meat has sat there or if it has gotten some shit or bile on it so long as you cook it well. alot of meat that could be eaten is discarded cause a little bile gets spilled on it and a hunter thinks it all over.... the stuff without bile is choice for drying. nice post, scout.
i have harvested aLOT of roadkill, have eaten meat with shit all over it that i just simply wiped off. the thing about bacteria is, when you cook it, they die. so it doesnt matter too much how long the meat has sat there or if it has gotten some shit or bile on it so long as you cook it well.
alot of meat that could be eaten is discarded cause a little bile gets spilled on it and a hunter thinks it all over….
the stuff without bile is choice for drying.

]]> By: Urban Scout http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9666 Urban Scout Thu, 03 Apr 2008 02:10:33 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9666 Hey Jason, Glad this one inspired you. I still get queasy sometimes. And I will often have nightmares of being in a car accident the night after I skin roadkill. I wake up still feeling the g-forces of the accident. Pretty tripping stuff. I don't think you're a hypocrite. We can use cars to dismantle car culture. Hey Jason,
Glad this one inspired you. I still get queasy sometimes. And I will often have nightmares of being in a car accident the night after I skin roadkill. I wake up still feeling the g-forces of the accident. Pretty tripping stuff. I don’t think you’re a hypocrite. We can use cars to dismantle car culture.

]]> By: Jason Godesky http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9660 Jason Godesky Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:17:02 +0000 http://www.rewildportland.com/urbanscout-archive/how-to-age-roadkill-101/#comment-9660 Thank you! I've wondered about scavenging some of the victims I see along the roadside, but I've never felt confident before about identifying what I can take safely. I see far, far too many along the parkway commuting to work, and it disturbs me how callous, how inhuman I've become that I can accept that. I have to drive every day right now to feed myself, but I think I can still promise my commitment to end car culture. Does it make me a hypocrite that I have to drive for the time being in order to further my plans to end driving forever? I don't think it does, but then, I wouldn't, would I? So next step, convincing Giuli that we can do this. She can get really squeamish--she won't even eat bugs yet. Ah, all in good time, I suppose. Thank you! I’ve wondered about scavenging some of the victims I see along the roadside, but I’ve never felt confident before about identifying what I can take safely.

I see far, far too many along the parkway commuting to work, and it disturbs me how callous, how inhuman I’ve become that I can accept that. I have to drive every day right now to feed myself, but I think I can still promise my commitment to end car culture. Does it make me a hypocrite that I have to drive for the time being in order to further my plans to end driving forever? I don’t think it does, but then, I wouldn’t, would I?

So next step, convincing Giuli that we can do this. She can get really squeamish–she won’t even eat bugs yet. Ah, all in good time, I suppose.

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