Roadkills

[nightshade]

Does anyone know the law regarding roadkills?
Driving to work I counted 2 deer, 6+Rabbits, 2 Badger, 1 foxcub,3 pheasant, (no partridges) and a blackbird.I know people who feed ferrets off roadkill but if I see
or actually kill a pheasant or deer can I take it home?
There is actually a roadkill cookbook and believe it or not a roadkill colouring book!
check out amazon .com

[henrya]

My understanding of the law is that if you kill a Pheasant (or other game bird) you are not allowed to pick it up, but the driver behind you is! Don't think this applies to anything else but game birds.

Around here, deer disappear off the road in double quick time, sometimes to end up in a local butchers. A couple of years ago a friend rang me to tell me he had just seen a deer killed on the road a few hundred yards from my house. By the time I got to the scene, all that was left was a smashed antler (Roe deer).The body was presumably heading for someone's freezer.

henrya

[Foxglove]

Originally Posted by henrya

My understanding of the law is that if you kill a Pheasant (or other game bird) you are not allowed to pick it up, but the driver behind you is! Don't think this applies to anything else but game birds.

I think this ruling applies to deer too...though I'm only about 90% sure on this. Think I need to do a Google and check out how the law stands or ask a few of the locals - though I'm sure they wouldn't think twice about taking a deer or pheasant off the road for their supper.

Foxglove

[StuartDH]

Originally Posted by henrya

My understanding of the law is that if you kill a Pheasant (or other game bird) you are not allowed to pick it up, but the driver behind you is! Don't think this applies to anything else but game birds.

A friend of mine hit a deer few years ago and the car behind him was a police car. The policemen told him that the same rule applied to deer and so if he just carried on with his journey they'd take care of the clean up.

The spread at the summer bar-b-q for Derbyshire police has probably never looked better than that particular year.

[Boddie]

May sound strange but you have to get caught. Nobody purposely hits animals or birds. I actually get the willies driving over something that is already dead so cant imagine stopping to pick something up

[henrya]

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May sound strange but you have to get caught.
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True - but in these days of CCTV cameras.......

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Nobody purposely hits animals or birds.
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If only that were true!

henrya

[Foxglove]

I certainly can't drive over something which has already been killed! I'd feel awful!!!

I start work at 5.30am so leave the house at 4.50am so I can have a leisurely drive along to work ( it's only about twenty minutes or so ) and am amazed at just how much wildlife there is on the roads at that time of morning. We live two and a half miles into the hills from a main road so I drive VERY slowly ( about 25 mph) along just to avoid the sheer numbers of Rabbits, wood pigeons, carrion crows, jackdaws and pheasants that seem to regard the tarmac as somewhere to sit in groups!!! Rabbits are the worst as they will hop away as you approach, almost disappear into the grass verges but then suddenly change their mind and dart across in front of you!!! Let's just say I've now perfected my emergency stop!!!!!
And on Monday morning I saw two Roe deer grazing in nearby fields and then, along a straight downhill stretch which is bordered by fields either side and often contains Roe at all times of the day, had THE most enormous Roe buck suddenly charge across the road in front of me!!! I drive a very ancient Micra and I'll swear that deer was bigger than my car LOL He certainly looked like it!
The saddest sights though are the many dead Badgers and foxes...breaks my heart when I see them and is the reason I prefer to drive at 45-50mph rather than the 'proper' speed limit on these country roads of 60mph.

Gill

[Helen]

Here in the Chilterns, there is loads of roadkill. Fortunately it is "recycled" for want of a better word! The red kites always make sure they have a good feed!