Make sure your ducks are dead before you freeze them..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6283677.stm

 

HUH why didn't the hunter just wring it's neck and go ahead and eat it.

 

I saw that on the news yesterday... pretty wild.

 

Apparently it was a "passive" duck.

 

everytime I bird hunt, I pick it up by the neck and give it a quick twist.
If it aint dead by the time I pick it up, it is by the time it goes into my game bag.

 

Yeah, I read that on a deer hunting forum a couple of days ago. Pretty wild, if I should say so myself. I had a blackduck pull an escape on us, we picked him up, rang his neck, and hung him up with his bill in between the slats on our blind. We shot a couple of more ducks, and when we were totalling everything up, he was gone. I mean, nowhere to be found, we looked, and got the dog to look, I think it got under the blind in the water and drowned itself.

 

Who in the heck leaves a duck in the frig for two days with the feathers on and the guts in??

That's just gross. Clean your kill asap. Nothing like the thought of the guts fermenting in the carcas for a couple days before someone gets around to cleaning it up

 

That's what I was thinking, must be some kind of special recipe

 

Why would not he have feild dressed it before putting it in the freezer?
Nothing like the taste of entrals & bowel matter fermenting and marinating the meat.

 

I'll just add a few more barfing smilies because it seems standard...

 

so let's see here. you go hunting, shoot the bird, take it home, put it in the freezer, find out it's still alive, and TAKE IT TO THE VET?! really? finish the job you started, kill it and eat it!

 

Something almost similar happened to me. When I was about 10 years old, one of my chores was to feed the chickens. We had about 50 or so fairly young chicks that had just come out of down. They were pretty aggresive when it was feeding time and the only way to get them away from the entry door was to open and slam it shut a few times. One hen chick in particular was a little too brave and slipped her head out the door before I slammed it shut and it broke her neck. I didn't want my parents to know what I had done so I through it in the cistern (wasn't using it for fresh water by the way). I was sure she was dead. She had stopped flopping and I thought she had stopped breathing.

About three months went by and we were weeding the garden which was next to the cistern and my mother heard what she thought was a chicken cluking in the cistern. She went over and lifted the lid and that now fully grown hen jumped out and ran into the field. Her head was crooked on her neck even. That chicken ended up being a pretty good laying hen! She lived for several years after that! She must have lived on bugs and worms that were down in the cistern.

Of course I blamed it on one of the neighbor kids!

 

I've had chickens come back to life after breaking their necks...

Apparently, sometimes you can knock them unconcious without actually killing them...

 

Oh no..the turkeys are spreading..AHHH!!!!!!!!!!!