Reynard
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I need to do something about the little sh*ts who keep decimating my roses and herb planters. Muntjac is quite tasty, apparently...
Venison sausages anyone ??
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I need to do something about the little sh*ts who keep decimating my roses and herb planters. Muntjac is quite tasty, apparently...
Time Waster
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I still remember the conversation my Mum had with my sister over the telephone when we were kids. She had visited our Aunt in the New Forest and she called and said she'd been fed deer sausages. My sis is older than me but niaive and did not know a few things at times. My Mum quick as you like told her it was ok, they would not have fed her the sausages if they could not afford them.
The conversation went along like that for a few minutes before my frustrated sister paused then remembered deer sausages are called venison sausages and she used that and ended the wind up. It was the first time she had eaten venison in any form. Took me a few moree years before I tried some venison sausages. Booths used to sell them quite cheaply with a yellow sticker occasionally. I reckon they would make a nice sausage casserole.
The conversation went along like that for a few minutes before my frustrated sister paused then remembered deer sausages are called venison sausages and she used that and ended the wind up. It was the first time she had eaten venison in any form. Took me a few moree years before I tried some venison sausages. Booths used to sell them quite cheaply with a yellow sticker occasionally. I reckon they would make a nice sausage casserole.
Reynard
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Do keep up at the back, there!
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/venison-sausages-anyone.301243/#post-7352746
Grant Fondo
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- Cheshire
I occasionally bob over to the Rhug estate shop for venison sausages, luvly if you are nearby Corwen (which no one is)
presta
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I don't think I've ever eaten venison, unless it was in a bowl of game soup I had once.
As I approached the first cottage, there was a woman outside tending her flower box, and when she looked up and saw me I anxiously said "Don't blame me, I've shut all the gates behind me, but they just keep jumping them all"
"Ooh I know" she said, "they're a damn pest, they keep eating all my flowers".
That reminds me of the day I walked the Kentdale Horseshoe. There was a pair of goats just above the intake wall, and as I went through the gate into a walled track back down the road, they jumped the gate and followed me. I tried shooing them back, but they just kept following me like the pied piper, jumping every gate in turn, and then followed me along the lane at the bottom into the village.
As I approached the first cottage, there was a woman outside tending her flower box, and when she looked up and saw me I anxiously said "Don't blame me, I've shut all the gates behind me, but they just keep jumping them all"
"Ooh I know" she said, "they're a damn pest, they keep eating all my flowers".
Reynard
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- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I don't think I've ever eaten venison, unless it was in a bowl of game soup I had once.
That reminds me of the day I walked the Kentdale Horseshoe. There was a pair of goats just above the intake wall, and as I went through the gate into a walled track back down the road, they jumped the gate and followed me. I tried shooing them back, but they just kept following me like the pied piper, jumping every gate in turn, and then followed me along the lane at the bottom into the village.
As I approached the first cottage, there was a woman outside tending her flower box, and when she looked up and saw me I anxiously said "Don't blame me, I've shut all the gates behind me, but they just keep jumping them all"
"Ooh I know" she said, "they're a damn pest, they keep eating all my flowers".
LOLOLOLOL! Goats will eat anything that's not latched down, even if it's not what you'd think of as edible
Deer aren't overly far behind. It's not just the Muntjac, we've also got Chinese Water Deer and Roe Deer around here.
OTOH, my friend's two sheep are about as fussy as they come...
Gwylan
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Bambi, go on say it!
Gwylan
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From my mind picture I imagine you could deal with a Muntjac.
Don't wear your best frock for this, do have a sharp knife
There's a nice Senegalese recipe I picked up for haunch of venison.
Reynard
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- Cambridgeshire, UK
I don't actually possess a dress
But sharp kitchen implements I have aplenty. 
Am used to dealing with rabbits, pheasants and fish, so prepping a cervid for the pot is much the same, just a bit bigger.
When we first moved to Hampshire on the edge of the New Forest in the early 1980s is when I discovered venison sausages. Our local butcher made them and there was an award winning butcher in Lyndhurst that we also used if over that way. When I settled down and got married we moved to Wiltshire where venison sausages seem to have largely dropped off the radar.
i always keep an eye out for them.
i always keep an eye out for them.
Gwylan
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Don't ask, don't tell.
You aren't allowed to cycle on the pavement, but a lot of it goes on.
Alex321
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- South Wales
No, you aren't.
While many people regard them as pests, they are not legally considered such, and you need an appropriate licence to shoot wild deer. Hunting them with hounds is no longer allowed at all.
I believe shooting is the only legal way to cull them.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/54
Yes, I thought so. I now live in central Scotland see lots of roe and red deer but I haven't seen muntjac in ages. I used to live in Leicester on a dog rough estate. I regularly used to get muntjac's in the garden, they came to drink out of the pond. I could easily have got one, but discharging a fire arm around there would have gotten the wrong type of police response.
Shadow
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- edge of the south downs
This was taken many years ago when I was close to a kitchen. Every time I see the image I can still smell it - the sous chef was still cutting it up hours later!
Quite. No one asked about this one.
