Eating found meat, dirty, poopy meat...."Warning Gross"
Yes, I know you would never do it. Hell, I would not do it if I were not an old geezer, waiting to see what I die of......???? So to be clear this is not fiction, It is happening. I always wondered about eating found animals, who died of unknown cause. I found a dead domestic turkey in the turkey pen this morning (4:30 AM). I was going to feed it to the bears, but I put it in the yard for 12 hours. WARNING THIS GETS GROSS.
So I watched the magpies feed on it. A raven ate some, but not much of it, truth is I chased the raven off after ten minutes (He ate a fair amount) then the magpies came back and ate. It started to look not edible, but they mostly ate around the head, neck and wing elbow. At 2:PM I put a bucket over it to keep the magpies off, but the bucket did not cover the whole bird, and they ate what stuck out (Head and tail and most of one wing).
It is cooking now and the cabin windows are getting steamed up.
Double Warning it starts getting real gross here: So at 5:30 PM which is at least 13 hours after discovery, I cut out the breast meat. Well, I have no running water, and hot water is hard to make. The bird died in filth and it was all over the outside of the bird, I considered taking it the 1/4 mile up to the creek to wash it, and decided to just butcher it, filth and all. OK, I wiped it as clean as I could with no water, but it has a fair amount of filth on it. I put them in the frying pan with lots of Olive Oil. As I said, they are still cooking. They are big, and I plan to over cook them. I have turned them about five times, and they are falling apart.
So if you made it this far: Question, what is the worst that could happen to me.....? Is Salmonella possible....? Will all the heat kill the filth (Turkey poop)....? I am not super worried as I have eaten other meat that bears have been feeding on.
It has been nice knowing you'all.....:tongue_smilie:
