Posted on 11/30/2009 5:46:23 AM PST by savedbygrace
Someone has given us a lot of ground deer meat. I'm storing it in the freezer, of course.
I'd like to feed some of it to our Golden Retriever with his regular kibble.
Is it necessary to cook it, or would it be safe to feed it to him raw? We've fed BilJac raw meat to our dogs in the past, so I'm thinking raw is OK.
And then turn around and eat that too!
The tapeworms can also come from snails. I've watched my dog gobble them up from the front lawn in the mornings. They can also get the roundworms just by licking their paws.
Animals who go outdoors at all should be dewormed every three months. I alternate two types of dewormer so we don't breed resistant parasites.
One of my cats is a Great White Hunter and we play hell keeping his parasite load down.
Not there right now...
But it’s a great place. I’ll have to see what the relatives are doing, though. We’re up here in Okieville... :-)
Properly aged and processed, there is no "gamey" flavor. The best way to destroy a good deer tenderloin or backstrap steak would be thyme and/or sage. If meat has a wild or gamey taste, it has been handled badly.
bttt
My favorite deer sausage recipe involves thyme, sage and pork fat back. He said it was ground, so that’s what I was thinking.
We moved here about four years ago and I do love it. There’s an attitude toward hunting here that I haven’t enjoyed since I was growing up in Wyoming.
My daughter is 17 (18 next week!) and she’s recently made a deal with the local game warden to let her have the mounts of recent road-kills. What’s funny is that she looks more like the cheerleader type than the “I have a dismembering kit in the trunk of my car” type.
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a pretty young lady take off her rings, pull her perfectly curled hair back, hike up her skirt and happily saw the head off a road-killed buck.
What I find *especially* funny is that the local boys *adore* her for it. You’d think that it would be a turn-off for most of them.
If there's something wrong with it, I'd say quietly throw it out just to be safe, if not out of respect for your dog. If you just don't care for it why not discreetly give it to someone else who does?
Even if someone else killed the deer, there's gotta be a corollary to "Don't kill anything you're not gonna eat" in here somewhere.
How about "If a creature had to die to make this hamburger make sure someone eats it unless there's something wrong with it. If there's something wrong with it don't feed it to your best friend." /moralistic ponitification :)
You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a pretty young lady take off her rings, pull her perfectly curled hair back, hike up her skirt and happily saw the head off a road-killed buck.
Ahhh..., we have another up-and-coming Sarah Palin... :-)
Nothing in anything you said makes them like humans,which is what I said.
Ship it to me; I will test it for you.
Ship it to me; I will test it for you.
If you are eating red meat in my house, there is about a 95% chance that it is whitetail, mule deer, elk or moose. Proper field prep, aging, and meticulous processing are the keys. The extra time and care are esstential.
We`re enjoying deer sausage too,this was fixed with
smoked pork butt mixed in.
Man oh man good eating.The pork butts not bad either
Snacking on deer jerky right now
The guy at the butcher shop told me he mixes the deer meat half and half with pork. Don’t know the cut of pork, but that wild meat taste sure gives it a taste you CANNOT get with pure pork.
That's a shame, cooked correctly, there is little better.
My dogs are better people than most people.
i guess our dogs are weird... they would not eat even cooked chicken gizzards and livers that were mixed into their dog food... they ate all of the dog food and left the gizzards and livers at the bottom of the bowl... i knew they wouldn't eat it, but a relative of ours, who was cooking in our kitchen, insisted they would like it... she couldn't believe it when she saw what was left in their dog bowls... btw--these are border collies...
your point?
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