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What to do about DEAD DEER on property??
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Anonymous
| We live in Fairfax County and have a dead deer in our woods. Because it is not road kill, the County will not come dispose of it. Anybody know any services that will, or should be just let it be eaten by the dozens of turkey vultures now circling the house?? |
Anonymous
| Does your family eat deer? You could deep fry it or grill it outside. |
Anonymous
| Drag it to the road and call the county and say it's roadkill. |
Anonymous
| Not in VA, but this happened to us in MoCo. We called animal control. They came out in 48 hours. It would have been sooner if it had been in the road. You could try that. Oh, and it was free. |
Anonymous
| Call animal control. They will take a while and it will stink, but it is not legal to put a carcass that large out in the trash (birds, squirrels, mice, and rats, yes: possums, raccoons, and up: no). |
Anonymous
| You need to dress the deer within a couple of hours to stop it spoiling - sounds like it may be too late for good eats for humans. I would leave it to the vultures. |
Anonymous
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We are in Fairfax Co. and had two deer die in our yard. Once we had a friend of a friend come with a truck and take it to his farm for $100. The other time a delivery man asked to take it home for food shortly after we found it. There are also companies that will come take it for you.
Good luck. |
Anonymous
Did he know how long it had been there? Or why it died? What if it was sick? I've heard of people taking home deer that they hit with their cars, but this is different. |
Anonymous
| There's a line from one of Bailey White's books about how she wouldn't eat road kill unless someone could give her the license plate number of the car that hit it. Sounds like a good rule. |
Anonymous
Call Fairfax County Animal Control. Don't tough it because you don't know what killed the deer. |
Anonymous
| 21:10 don't "touch" deer |
Anonymous
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I'm pretty horrified by the suggestions that the dead deer be eaten. Seriously, a delivery guy ATE a deer that died of unknown causes?? That's revolting. Deer in this area have chronic wasting disease, which I think is similar to mad cow. (Scientist friends, check me here... aren't they both the spongy brain thing? spongiform encepha-something?)
I am a big fan of eat what you kill, and I would be perfectly fine with eating my own roadkill, for example. Heck, I HAVE eaten my own roadkill. But a found carcass, no idea how long it's been there or what killed it... ugh. I'm calling the Darwin Awards. |
Anonymous
I don't know what the OP should do, but why do people keep suggesting this? The OP already said that they county will not dispose of it. |
Anonymous
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PP here - I just found a few companies via Google that may do the job for you:
http://www.va-wildlife.com/businesses/VA_Wildlife_Removal_LLC_Fredericksburg_VA.htm http://northernvirginia.crittercontrol.com/ |
Anonymous
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EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWW
what if the deer was sick? DON'T TOUCH IT! roadkill is OK to eat but dead out of the blue? NO WAY! |