Deer Road Kill ??
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Topic: Deer Road Kill ??
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Subject: Deer Road Kill ??
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2021 at 7:01pm
Who is "responsible" for removing the carcass off of the roadside ? Is it the state/county/closest land owner ? Recently saw 4 piled up in a bunch that will probably start smelling "ripe" real soon with the forecasted high temps next week "here"  .
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Posted By: Billoh
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2021 at 7:19pm
| AROUND HERE WE USE THEM TO FEED THE EAGLES. |
Posted By: festus51
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2021 at 7:26pm
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It is the road Dept in Ks All though I have used my loaded bucket to pick some up I do know the road Dept is not always most efficient. ------------- We the unwilling Led by the unqualified Doing the impossible for the Ungrateful |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2021 at 9:01pm
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Around here a private contractor picks them up along the state highways. He was in twice today. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2021 at 9:06pm
| in NE, the State rod dept picks them up, sometimes they will dig a hole in the ditch and bury them there. |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 05 Mar 2021 at 9:52pm
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On interstate and state highways the state (GDOT) takes care of them. On county roads it is the road department or the buzzards and coyotes. If it is fresh sometimes the county will see that a needy family gets it. That wouldn't happen in the metro counties though. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 6:36am
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Here, city garbage dept..... In NH it'd be the 'Game Wardens'...seen that on TV ( great show BTW...) ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 6:55am
| Around here, the county road commission hasn’t handled them in years. They used to. Now they pretty much lay and rot. The smell only lasts a while. |
Posted By: Brian F(IL)
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 8:44am
| In my part of Illinois, on the interstates, the IDOT (Illinois Department of Transportation) picks up the pieces. In the country, the coyotes clean them up. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 10:35am
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Most time around here County highway dept will pick up if on the road or right at edge , then the one laying in corn stubble and about 30ft into field they let lay and eagles have been working it over . Then it seems sons dogs find many parts and bring them up into yard so evidently no one has been cleaning up lately except nature ------------- Life lesson: If you’re being chased by a lion, you’re on a horse, to the left of you is a giraffe and on the right is a unicorn, what do you do? You stop drinking and get off the carousel. |
Posted By: DanWi
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 12:40pm
| If they are laying in the grass nobody picks them up, you can tell where they are in summer driving by with the windows open. I have seen some on the side of the road in the gravel getting ready to burst they are so big. Have seen some lately run over at least a dozen times not much to pick up except a wad of hide. Family of raccoon couple laying on the side of the road and a couple are just a spot on the road. |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 1:58pm
| Around here the state used to but now it's up to mother nature and it don'tmake any difference what road your on |
Posted By: Walker
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 4:24pm
| The only time the state claims them is when money can be made licenses, fines etc. When they cost money as in disposal they want nothing to do with them much the same as they are with taxpayers. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 5:44pm
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In my MI county it's the landowner or someone else that doesn't want to smell it. I heard you could pour a bag of lime on it and it will take care of it faster. We also have coyotes and turkey vultures that will help remove them as well. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 6:37pm
| Here may lay on the road for days so any of us that keep gloves in car will generally call up sheriff for a hazard car and drag them off the roads ourselves, leave them to the roadside vermin. |
Posted By: DougG
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 7:05pm
| Around central Mo they just lay there on the side of the road- Ill drag them to the ditch if i have a chance , too many times they just lay there decomposing- and we all know how that goes; the whole process- big thing ive noticed lately is coyotes being hit = |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 7:07pm
BARBEQUE COOKOUT ???  ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: NICKMI
Date Posted: 06 Mar 2021 at 11:45pm
| What county do you live in around here it’s the road commissions job |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2021 at 7:38am
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Doug, I think it is that time of year when the young buck yotes quit thinking about the traffic cus they have sumpin else on their mind. i seen that before. Oh and if you get it fresh, that road kill tastes just like gun kill.
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Posted By: Joe(TX)
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 6:33pm
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In Texas the game warden will pick up fresh kill. Sometimes DOT will pick them up. Most times the coyotes and buzzard take care on them. It is illegal for an individual to pick the up. ------------- 1970 190XT, 1973 200, 1962 D-19 Diesel, 1979 7010, 1957 WD45, 1950 WD, 1961 D17, Speed Patrol, D14, All crop 66 big bin, 180 diesel, 1970 170 diesel, FP80 forklift. Gleaner A |
Posted By: JW in MO
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 7:01pm
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Here in Missouri, if you hit one the Dept. of Conservation says they have no responsibility, not their property. But if you want to pick one up off the road for personal use, you gotta get a free permit from the Dept of Conservation or it's a hefty fine, even though as previously stated, not their responsibility. Along the highways the Dept of Transportation supposed to pick up dead animals unless it's somebody cow or pig, then nobody claims it! ------------- Maximum use of available resources! |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 8:09pm
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In Michigan on Interstate and State Highways MDOT will remove Deer Carcass to a non residential area and leave them if they are in a travel lane. Our County roads the Road Commission does not remove unless they are a hazard anything else is landowners preference. I drag them to a fencerow for Coyote bait. |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2021 at 5:34pm
Well, as of this evening on my way home from work on "county roads" in Cass Co. Michigan, it's up to the home/land owner or the crows to dispatch of the carcass  .
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Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 28 Mar 2021 at 8:33pm
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X -2 on what Brian said! Road dept on local roads just dig in the ditch and push them in! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2021 at 1:53am
| There are at least a dozen of them in the ditches between town and home. Eagles have been working on them all winter. The buzzards are now back in my area. They'll get cleaned up real quick now. |
Posted By: Kansas99
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2021 at 4:54am
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Around here the HW Dept or the sheriffs will drag them into the ditch but then it's left to coyotes or buzzards and that's pretty damn quick. Most of the time I think the coyotes get them drug of the road faster then anyone else gets there. Years ago an older man(now dead) that lived east of me 3 miles would pick them up and salvage a little meat, of course saved any racks. The sheriffs office called him and told him were to go. The two biggest whitetail racks I have ever seen came from road kill and he had one of them, they both were well over 200. ------------- "Thank you for your service Joe & the Ho"-----Joseph Stalin |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2021 at 12:54pm
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In MI if you call 911 for a deer hit, the cop will give you a permit for the deer if you so choose. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 29 Mar 2021 at 2:01pm
| I believe McDonalds and Taco Tico collect them. Sometimes the Chinese buffet has mystery meat (deer, dog, cat or other road kill). I will let you figure it out. lol |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2021 at 5:12pm
| Any idea of why the majority of road kills are does and not bucks ?? |
Posted By: steve(ill)
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2021 at 5:17pm
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maybe they are too busy talking and not paying attention ?? ------------- Like them all, but love the "B"s. |
Posted By: Clay
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2021 at 5:51pm
Good one Steve
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steve(ill) wrote:Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2021 at 6:30pm
| The next live Deer you see ask it! |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 30 Mar 2021 at 6:55pm
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I wish they would cross at their signs! You never see a dead deer by the signs. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: ac fleet
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2021 at 9:59am
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John's right!--- never seen a dead one around here by deer signs either now that I think about it! lol! ------------- http://machinebuildersnetwork.com/ |
Posted By: FREEDGUY
Date Posted: 31 Mar 2021 at 6:34pm
Sadly, I've seen 3 carcasses within 75 feet of the signs  .
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