Safe to eat?

[okie archer]

I saved 2 pheasant for taxidermy. Got them into freezer in decent time. I am the taxidermist. I didn't remove the guts, i froze them whole. Would it be ok to eat the birds when i go to skin them for taxidermy?

 

[Mule man]

Should be fine,freind was out in So. Dakota for a week and brought his home with guts in un frozen ,just keep them cool and they were fine. He is from England and they don't gut them ? Something about an old why of cooking them? I ate one and it was great.

 

[Trial153]

I would try em.....

 

[thusby]

Yeah, I would say so. Birds are very different from big game with respect to leaving the guts in. Hell, some people age their ducks with the guts in.

 

[Redman]

No worries a lot of people age them with guts in before preparing them for the table. Bigger birds like turkey or geese you want to gut sooner than later.

 

[OntarioHunter]

You'll be fine eating those. Birds kept cold are good to go for quite a while. Just two nights ago I returned home very late with three roosters and a sharpie. Golfers elbow was seriously acting up in right arm so I took care of the dogs, downed some ibuprofen, threw the birds in a cooler outside and left them till morning (I knew temp would drop below freezing during the night). Geese are different. I might leave them overnight on the garage floor if the temp dropped well below freezing. They are too big with too much insulation so have to be careful. Uplands will cool down very quickly if weather cooperates. If hot out, better gut them quickly.

 

[lpshunter29]

That should be fine. I've done that with small ducks before and I'm still kickin. Probably wouldn't try it with a honker but a pheasant is on the opposite end of the spectrum.

 

[okie archer]

Thank you