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So what do you do?
Run 'em over so tea's sorted?
Stop and let them wander from one side of the road t'other and back again?
Sound your horn?
We're talking mainly youngsters here. 🙂
It's been a long time since I've met a game bird!
Chance would be a fine thing!
Oh, that sort of game bird.
Sound my horn, which is what I always do when I see wildlife or domesticated animals on the road. Animals generally respond to loud noises better than humans.
OK, completely not the topic I was expecting!
But on topic, if you do run them over, you can't have them, but the car behind you can! So quickly phone a mate!
Where we live we just stop and let them do their thing (as we also do with deer, peoples ruddy chickens, fearless cats, snakes, OAPs...)
I'd let em out the way, don't want to destroy part of the local economy!
You wouldnt run over sheep in the road would you.. just slow down
Usually I sound the horn so they fly off.
Give them 75 yards
Then shoot them with my 12 bore.
They are a bloody menace. A few years ago I hit one on the A40. It was early morning and the stupid thing took off just before I hit it. It made a big hole in the front plastic panel which cost £300+ to fix. I
You wouldnt run over sheep in the road would you.. just slow down
I came to a complete halt and all the young pheasants did was dither! But you never know what's coming up behind you on a country lane so felt I was a bit of a sitting duck.
And, yes, could make a nice mess of the car. 🙁
Ah, well i wouldnt stop for long, theyre only worth 50p once dead
All just been released ready for the start of the shooting season, thick as a couple of short planks
I give them a damn good plucking because I'm a pheasant plucker.
When cycling today I came across many nurseries, both pheasant and partridge. I even pinged my bell but to no avail.
But when they suddenly fly, when you don't realise they're there. 😯
Care you don't collect them on the front. My old boss hit 1 and bust his radiator when it lodged there, cooked both bird and engine.
I was on the Leeds Outer Ring Road, Wortley area one saturday afternoon. There's a beck (small stream to non-Yorkshire folk) in the area.
Mama Mallard & 8 ducklings decided they didn't want to use the culvert under the road, oh no, they were going to use the green cross code.
Fantastic sight, 2 lanes of traffic held up in both directions by a duck & her offspring.
They all made it across the road 🙂
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what the fox is that?
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Not sure it might have been a deer.
Uranium filled fox by the look of it, driving at er, 30 ish?
Blimey, that is seriously grim. 🙁
I just don't see how that's possible!
mmm, venison
good job it wasn't a moose, eh?
Did it survive?
the car?
I'd that a still no eye deer ?
Brake fairly hard.
I nearly hit a pheasant on track at Cadwell, came round Barn, onto the start/finish straight, flat out, starts walking into the track a few hundred meters up the road.
I didn't fancy hitting it and having a broken bumper/radiator/oil cooler or windscreen!
Over here with Kangaroos/Wombats etc, hit them straight on with the middle of the car and don't swerve, more chance of having an accident that way. Only hit one wombat up to now luckily I was in the work Land Cruiser and it bounced off the diffs and didn't do any damage.
The car two lanes over from me on the motorway in Sydney cleaned up a roo once though when I was coming back from the airport. That was an eye opener as it was in my lane only seconds before!
game bird meets game bird...
Going over Buttertubs a couple of months back, I slowed, honked, then stopped for a sheep that would not move. In the end I had to gently cajole it out of the way with the bumper!
One past, it just went back to licking the tarmac where it was before 😯
Not sure it might have been a deer.
Was just enjoying my breakfast as well..
Apparently its a myth that the driver who killed the animal/game can't take it but following drivers can. Anyone including the first driver can take it. Anyone confirm this?!
killing and eating game is poaching, taking home road kill you found for the pot is just called odd.
depends on the roadkill.
neatly dispatched pheasant or deer, lovely!
hedgehog or rook, probably not.. though I bet someone will be along shortly to correct me!
You hit a pheasant or anything else for that matter with your car and it's not worth eating anyway so drive on and leave the bugger where it is.
You hit a pheasant or anything else for that matter with your car and it's not worth eating anyway so drive on and leave the bugger where it is.
Eh?
You hit anything with your car and the meat isn't worth eating so leave it where you hit it.
You hit anything with your car and the meat isn't worth eating so leave it where you hit it.
Depending on the animal in question, the speed of the impact, whether it was a glancing blow, and many other variables...
As far as I know it's not illegal to eat roadkill and it's not poaching if the game birds are not on the landowners property ( may be wrong about this one but can't see how you police such things)
After quite a lot of close calls with Pheasants ( one was crossing the M25....gulp) and having one go bouncing off my windscreen last year on a local road after it flew out a hedge having been disturbed by traffic I think that they are the thickest animals in the world...."Shall I fly away from danger? No, I think I wil run instead...fly high into the air? No, I shall fly at about 2ft off the ground" TBH Clay pigeons have more brains.
Still, they do taste good roasted ( Pheasants, not clay pigeons) and there are many serving suggestions available :
[url= http://http://www.amazon.co.uk/Quick-Fix-Cooking-Roadkill-Buck-Peterson/dp/0740791303/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1347178101&sr=8-2 ]Roadkill cookbook[/url]
The chances of a glancing blow are very slim. It's easy to see most of you on here are townies.
I've had to perform an emergency stop before due to deer waiting in the trees jumping out and trying to commit suicide... whilst on my bicycle between Ciren & Stroud. In the car I had a very near miss with a big dear on the old Cheltenham - Ciren road, it happened so quickly before I could respond.
I've yet to come across any game birds waiting at the roadside, but I've heard they flock around truckers stops.
The lack of of six fingers is a give away too. 😀
It's easy to see most of you on here are townies.
Actually, chum, the things I tend to try to dodge whilst driving at night move at 30 mph and jump. They can also be over 7ft tall.
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Perhaps its time to recalibrate your prejudice control?
One of my technicians had his car written off hitting one last year. The roo just carried on hopping...
The last thing I hit was adeer not a bird , £4500 worth of repairs.....
I'll brake harder next time, but still won't swerve unless going slowly enough.
My uncle told a tale about driving across the red centre (basically right across Aus) with an Aussie chap. Aussie bloke gave my uncle the wheel one evening and said "if anything jumps out onto the road, don't swerve, just hit it". Truck had huge 'roo bars on the front and the verges are apparently soft sand you might not get the vehicle out of again. Anyhow, nothing happened and my uncle woke the Aussie up and swapped seats again. Ten minutes or so later and.... BANG!!!!!!
blood all over the windscreen and big bend in the 'roo bars + one ver big and very dead red kangaroo on the other side of the road!
The main reason for not swerving is that the surrounding rocks / trees / road-trains are a lot harder than the roos
Well i wouldn't want to hit one even with those bars on the front of the 'ute'!
I think the hitting them is the 'least worst' option. Sadly most human fatalities in car-roo incidents are because the driver lost control swerving and either flipped the car or ran into something even more solid than the roo.
A few years ago I was driving back from newcastleton. Thats quite a twist road. I wasn't speeding but came around a bend and in a instance I was confronted by an entire road full of small game. Not clued up but I presume pheasant . Anyhow as it was mid bend and I would have been in danger if I slammed the brakes on (I am a brake for them if possible guy) I went through the lot of them. It was like a machine gun going off as their heads/necks were just at bumper height. I never stopped to see the carnage but I reckon I may be close to the most kills in one incident. Not proud but by god were they dumb
as their heads/necks were just at bumper height
One might almost say 'glancing blows' 😉
until they bounce off sump,gearbox,exaust etc. Why do you think you see so much roadkill left where it was hit, if the meat was any good we would be stopping to pick it up before you daft townies could get out here and take it home. If however you want to eat roadkill go ahead there's plenty of it around.One might almost say 'glancing blows'
Fiend was going along a road with sign warning of Deer in road said "Don't know why that signs there never ever seen deer on this road and I use it daily" Came round the corner and entire herd of 200 escaping deer were crossing the road. Escaped from farm. Wet themselves laughing
I am sure they are edible if they bounce of your helmet. Personally I get mine for nothing when beating and from my rabbit trap. Who would have thought the daft bugger would eat carrots? Mind the only reason they are in my garden is they are the intelligent ones who moving into gardens as soon as the shooting season starts!
It's the older birds you have to watch out for. They just head out into the road without looking and it's difficult to anticipate them.
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It'll be your fault if you hit them though.
I once took out about 7 possums at once in my Anglia. That was a good night.
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before you daft townies
PMSL. That chip must be hard for you to carry on your shoulder.
I've eaten road kill pheasant, it only had a glancing blow so was fine.
My mate hit a deer in his XR2. Apprantley it was trying to stand up but couldnt and making a horrible noise. He sat on it till a vet could come out and put the poor ****er to sleep.
it only had a glancing blow so was fine.
It can't have done, our resident rural affairs expert says that this is not possible under any circumstances....
17 Pheasant and 4 rabbits in a 3 mile stretch is my record to date. I don't swerve for em. Had a couple of pheasant loged in the grille and had to pull them out. Pretty grizzly and not worth eating.
Now in Aus an am now paranoid about murdering "skippy" on a dusky rural night.
A full grown roo jumping in front of you at 110km's hr at night is a scary thing. It's bad enough if they jump in front of you on the trail.
A hare once jumped out the hedge and proceeded to try and race me down a hill. We were neck and neck for quite some time before it decided to throw it's self under my open pros.
Had to stop and finish it off. Don't think you can eat hare so left it in the hedge for the local reynards.
Game birds are actually drawn to roads to find gravel, they need it to grind up their food what with the absence of teeth. Someone needs to breed a toothed pheasant.
Hi all well I used to rear 50,000 of these bloody things (pheasents)so you can take me as knowing on or two things about them 🙂
It IS against the law to use ANY motorised vehicle in the pusuit of game, and so this is where if you hit them you cannot pick them up but someone else can come into play. Other wise it's poaching.
With regards to eating them I really would not bother as they at this time of year they still may have been fed a bit of pellet and still not being fed full wheat. And even if they are on full wheat they may still have the chemicals fromt he pellet food within the meat.
I really would not touch Pheasents road kill or other wise until October.
Pheasents when released into the release pens in the woods are fed on pellet food that has lots on goddies for them in for there development but at this time not really fit for humam consumption over a period of 2 - 5 weeks they are then weened off these onto a diet of wheat plus whatever they can find out and about in the wild (having had the wire on the release pens lifted) within 2- 4 weeks of them being in the release pens.
This time of year (or a bit earlier) they go mad for crane flys (daddy long legs) hence why they end up all over the bloody place chasing them across fields roads etc...... It's also a time where they like to explore the local and not so local fields, woods and on our croweded little island roads.
I'd suggest you lot drive carefully as its coming up to Game Season and they'll be fattening them all up right about now.
Hitting them on a bike isn't recommended either.
What do you mean 'you can't eat hare'? It's bloody gorgeous meat 🙂
What do you mean 'you can't eat hare'? It's bloody gorgeous meat
When you get all the blood out of it. 😉
I replace the blood with red wine 🙂
Only ever hit one pheasant, along a country lane on my way up to the drag racing at Stratford-upon-Avon. I was driving my '53 Split-screen Minor, and there was a hell of a bang at the front, and a cloud of feathers like someone had ripped a pillow open. Of the pheasant, there was no sign, despite me and the mate who was with me searching along the hedges and fields either side for twenty minutes. Moggies being tough old motors, there was no damage to the car, fortunately.
Nearly got one in the head on the bike once, as well; narrow lane, bit of downhill, following wind, big ring, 32mph according to the computer, and this pheasant comes over the hedge on my left at head height! Close enough I could have grabbed the bugger's tail, had I fast enough reflexes. That was scary!
Pity the poor bloke who owned the BMW, with whatever that was embedded in the front. Jeeze, what a mess!
Pity also the poor sod tasked with having to clean it out... 😐
I replace the blood with red wine
All 10 pints of it? 😆
Hare slowly cooked in red wine to an old medieval recipe - lovely.
Some of the wine might 'just' have replaced some of my blood in the process though 😉
As is should during cooking game MD. Not all wine should be added to food while cooking at least 75% of it should be added to the chef.
Some people live on roadkill....
That's up to them.
Some people live on roadkill....
Most of them are townies no doubt 😐
Whoaaa! It aint me!
There's only one chance of me feeding off roadkill.
Starvation.
(& thats debateable)
[i]Most of them are townies no doubt[/i]
That aint me either.
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[u]Some people live on roadkill....[/u]
That's up to them.
How is this possible? I thought it wasn't even remotely conceivable that us townies (sic) could hit an animal with a glancing blow, thereby rendering it quite edible but also dead.
How is this possible? I thought it wasn't even remotely conceivable that us townies (sic) could hit an animal with a glancing blow, thereby rendering it quite edible but also dead.
You want to eat roadkill eat roadkill. Anyone with sense would leave it where they hit it.
I can understand if the things been under the wheels! But glancing blows do happen, yes I'm a "townie" to some country folk, but my OHs folk are farmers and that's where I've sampled some pheasant road kill. 'twas quite nice too.
But glancing blows do happen
yeah, not sure if I could pick a random carcass up off the road, but if I saw the creature get killed, surely it doesn't matter if it's by gun, knife or car bumper..?
Free food nearly always tastes nicer than bought food IME, although even living amongst a gazillion sheep, cows, deer and pheasants, I've not personally eaten roadkill..
I still don't understand this comment though..
Anyone with sense would leave it where they hit it.
Anyone with sense would leave it where they hit it.
This brings me back to my original point:
"Eh?"
I have and do eat dead stuff off the road