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Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 3:09 pm Post subject: Pheasant for Christmas
Our Christmas dinner fell out of the sky yesterday. My question is this, If I hang them for 4-5 days and then pluck draw and refrigerate, will it be OK for Christmas day considering that it's 11 days away, or should I freeze them after plucking?

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 3:11 pm Post subject:
OMG, is it only 11 days till Christmas?? Sorry, as you were, haven't got a clue about pheasant

judith

Joined: 16 Dec 2004
Posts: 22789
Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 3:13 pm Post subject:
I'd freeze them.

lettucewoman

Joined: 26 Sep 2006
Posts: 7834
Location: Tiptoe in the Forest!!

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 3:13 pm Post subject:
yeah me too

woodsprite

Joined: 20 Mar 2006
Posts: 2943
Location: North Herefordshire

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 3:49 pm Post subject:
Definately freeze them. You probably have your own way of roasting them but might I humbly suggest my grans (and now my) method? Put a lump of fatty stewing steak into the cavity and cover with streaky bacon. Your pheasant will be succulent. I use this method every week when I roast pheasant.

mochyn

Joined: 21 Dec 2004
Posts: 24585
Location: mid-Wales

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 4:30 pm Post subject:
We'll be having pheasant it I run one over before the big day...

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 4:36 pm Post subject:
I'd freeze it too - just that bit too long till 25th.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Fri Dec 14, 07 7:13 pm Post subject:
Thanks folks, going to hang them a bit less and then freeze them. Timing is hard to come by when you are getting wild food!

pookie

Joined: 01 Aug 2006
Posts: 4984
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 07 11:47 am Post subject:
on the subject of pheasants....is it poaching if you kill a pheasant on your own land? got asked the other day and I didn't know the answer....

Marionb

Joined: 27 Aug 2006
Posts: 5267
Location: Mid-Wales

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 07 11:50 am Post subject:

pookie wrote:

on the subject of pheasants....is it poaching if you kill a pheasant on your own land? got asked the other day and I didn't know the answer....

I wouldnt have thought so.... I'm no expert but I'd assume that if it was on my land I could shoot it for myself.

Jonnyboy

Joined: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 23956
Location: under some rain.

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 07 1:55 pm Post subject:

pookie wrote:

on the subject of pheasants....is it poaching if you kill a pheasant on your own land? got asked the other day and I didn't know the answer....

Nope, but there is a season and you need a game licence.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 07 4:08 pm Post subject:
There was talk on here a long time ago about the game licence being dispensed with. I take it nothing happened.

LynneA

Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 07 4:38 pm Post subject:
We had pheasant on Christmas Day last year. A college classmate had a friend who was a forest ranger out in darkest Essex and had a freezer load to give away. Was a novice dog's first retrieve so was a little extra "tenderised" in places. But it was enough for the two of us and made a good risotto for Boxing Day.

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 07 7:54 pm Post subject:

The Game Licence for England and Wales has been abolished. One may lawfully take any game one finds upon ones own land - even if it has wandered across into your garden from the shoot next door, it matters not. Anythong on ones own property may be lawfully taken.

Pheasant and other game may lawfully be taken out of season, if they are causing damage to crops or property and other methods short of killing have been tried and found wanting.

Green Rosie

Joined: 13 May 2007
Posts: 10498
Location: Calvados, France

Posted: Sat Dec 15, 07 9:00 pm Post subject:

gil wrote:

I'd freeze it too - just that bit too long till 25th.

My Dad used to hang pheasants for AGES - until they were green. He said it made them taste better. It has put me off them for life.

Although I have to say, Woodsprite's method for cooking one sounds good enough for me to give pheasant another go sometime.

And on the subject of running them over, I was always told it was illegal to pick up any pheasant you ran over - but OK to pick up one run over by some-one else. Is this right or just a myth?

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