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rotten pheasant

  • 09-03-2011 8:34pm
    #1
    beretta686s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 353 ✭✭


    just wondering whats the longest any of ye have hung a pheasant for and have eating it?:)


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  • #2
    lb1981
    Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭lb1981


    beretta686s wrote: »
    just wondering whats the longest any of ye have hung a pheasant for and have eating it?:)
    I have read about rich English gentry leaving them till the head falls off before eating them, makes them more rich and gamey (or mouldy),not for me though about a week is fairly nice


  • #3
    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    I think 5 days in a cool shed was my max and I didn't enjoy it as much as normal (2-3 days for me).

    Decomposing meat isn't 'gamey' in my book - it's plain old gone off.

    Plenty of flavour in them already. No need to resort to that.


  • #4
    mixerbarcoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 130 ✭✭mixerbarcoe


    anything between 2-4 days at the most..and also depends on how cool the shed is.


  • #5
    Mauser 308
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    beretta686s wrote: »
    just wondering whats the longest any of ye have hung a pheasant for and have eating it?:)
    2/3 days is fine, up to 5 if you have a cold room or fridge to hang them. Just a tip though from my own experience hang them by the neck. A lot of people tend to differ on hanging them by neck or feet. My experience is hang by the neck as a lot of time the guts can be pierced by the shot, hanging by the neck means that gravity takes the bad/leaking stuff to the bottom of the bird rather than to the brest meat if hung by the legs. Just my own experience.


  • #6
    Vizzy
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    What you can do is nail him to a board and hang it up until he falls off the board - then cook the board :D:D:D
    (one of my fathers quips many years ago)

    Seriously though,2 or 3 days in a cool shed is fine.


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  • #7
    tonytoc11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭tonytoc11


    Definately 2/3 days max. I left one for 5/6 days in December and when I skinned it there were plenty of green spots on it....turned me right off


  • #8
    Eddie B
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    About a week or so!!


  • #9
    mrbrianj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭mrbrianj


    I would hang them for anything from 3 to 7 days, depends on how busy I am! its usually 4 days though.

    A brother of mine declares it has to be at least two weeks - until they nearly fall apart! but I know for a fact that he gives them to someone else to clean and pluck a couple of days after shooting them:rolleyes:.

    There must be some lads on the shoot who listened to him and found out the smelly way!


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