Thread: Fly blown venison

Originally Posted by Micky Duck

Freezer is your friend but lay packages in thin layer not all in a heap. Many years ago Dad came home on hot summer's day having skinned line of possums.the blowies had beaten him to them so mechanical rice all through his string pikau full of skins. So he chucked whole shebang in freezer thinking that would kill them all and he could thaw them out in week or two and process skins.WRONG. the fur insulated them and when bag was removed..a shell of skins n fur surrounded a moving ball of horrid fat maggots. They don't like vinegar you say??? Good to know,they hate janola bleach,perfect when they on concrete floor or in drain.

About mid spring Mrs longshot commandeered some slightly over ripe rabbit carcasses for the garden, several nights later on a cold evening I went out with the thermal to check for little pesties in the garden. Three times there was a strong heat signature in the garden but nothing to be seen in the torch light. It turned out these were the places where the ‘slow release fertiliser’ had been applied. The rabbits had been buried in relatively shallow holes and the maggots and maybe the bacteria were numerous and active enough at this point to warm up a fairly large patch of soil.
One lot actually cooked a new planting.

Between having a blanket of possum fur and a bunch of friends to keep each other warm, it’s hardly surprising they survived in the freezer.


As an aside, the vinegar thing is new to me too.