smitsturbo

i was just saying to a mate about the loads of dead animals on the roads lately like rabbits,badgers & foxes but after seeing them in the morning there not there at night so what happens to them, surely people dont pick them up or move them & surely foxes dont eat other foxes as that was a thaught??

any ideas folks??

Stavros

In the Forest Of Dean they scoop them up and eat them.

The people, not the foxes.

But the children smoke pipes and the women wear dresses made of wood.

Its like a real life Phones4u advert.

turbo

is that called road kill or something

Lee Reynolds

The RSPCA move a lot of dead animals off the road

Dirty Harry

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its the time of year when the young venture out and dont know what a road is,happens every year its keep the balance of nature

tabetha

Foxes, deers, fowl rabbits, etc will all eat them, most are just run over a bit more so disappear on cars wheels etc.
Deer are normally only plant eaters, but will and do eat other dead animals, there are also black cats about in some areas, and loads of wild cats in scotland.
tabetha

Dirty Harry

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deer dont eat other animals mate,foxes badgers and cats but not deer,you will fine covids and birds of prey IE buzzards eat road kill

tabetha

I worked in the woods for 6 years for forestry commision, and deers do indeed eat meat, not thier prefeered diet but they do, seen it loads, with dead animals.
tabetha

Bullett

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you are all so far off the mark! im suprised you lot havent heard that ALL road kill is taken away and eaten by pikey's

Dirty Harry

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Iam not going to get into an argumnet but I do think I know a little about the habbits of deer I have frinds in the BDS (british deer society) i hold level 1 and 2 DMQ deer managment qualification,Ima registered with the forestry commison to cull deer and have never ever heard or read that deer eat meat,

tabetha

Pity the PIKEY's did not hang around a bit longer we could have some proper road kill then!!
tabetha

Lambchop

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Smits
I was out on my bike not this past wend but one before and we went up through cruden bay, coast rd to the broch and then west to banff and there was fucking LOADS of roadkill! i couldnt believe it! One bambi at one point as well! Never mind the badgers, rabbits and foxes! it was mental.

smitsturbo

Lambchop
should of gave me a shout i would have cooked you one up for the journey ahead

i know what you mean tho, i just thaught it was wierd cos there was 2 foxes on the road near me in the morning then the just vanished later on

tabetha

RS specialist,
I am not going to get in an argument either, but your quliafications don't impress at all I'm afraid, they may even be the newer much watered down ones for all I know.
I have worked with many qualified people over the years a lot straight of of uni, but put them on practical skills and they are like kids, just got the papers.
tabetha

Dirty Harry

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mate Iam deffo not a uni type of guy,my quailifcation regarding deer management is so i can shoot them as thats my sport,I think Iam qualified to know the habbits of deer I also have to know there anatomy and have to inspect the internal organs,I have studied them long enough,I have hunted all over the world mate so i do know what Iam talking about
you obviously have no idea what the level 1 and 2 qualifications is about out of the whole country there is just over 2000 people who have gained level 2 and this is need to manage deer on all the forestry commision land,I thought you would have known this if you have worked for them
as i say deer dont eat meat there teeth are not capable to cope with it for starters

Magic Numbers

Is there anything you haven't done apart from Fly to the Moon?

smitsturbo

i cant believe theres 'nearly' an argument about deers eating meat

Dirty Harry

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PMSL if he would have taken the time to do a qualifiaction or two he may go to the mood
Just out of pure interest Tabatha what job did you exactly do for the commision as you couldnt have been a ranger as you would have known a bit more about deer

Oranoco

I work for the local Highways department and the council will remove dead animals if they're on the carriageway.

A while back one council got into trouble as they used the dead animal bags to tempoararily cover some road signs

Dirty Harry

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here you go Tabatha,you really need to read up on a subject you know nothing about


Food & Feeding: Deer are omnivorous opportunists and will feed catholically on grasses, heather, lichen, shoots, bark, leaves, herbs, rushes, buds, nuts, fungi, fruit and berries and even holly and bramble. The type of food consumed depends largely on location and season. For example, grasses, sedges and rushes comprise the bulk of a Red deer’s summer diet, whilst shrubs are staple during the winter. Fallow deer will also switch to eating bark during the winter months, whilst Roe deer will eat twiggy litter if conditions become harsh. Similarly, Fallow deer in the New Forest (UK) will feed primarily on heather in the winter, with acorns and other fruits featuring heavily in their diet in the autumn. A study in the journal Mammalia by a group of French scientists found that only six plant items comprised 80 to 90% of the rumen contents of Roe deer, with bramble and honeysuckle present year round. The study also found that the deer switched to eating evergreen plants (e.g. heather and ivy) and some grasses in the autumn and winter, preferring herbs, young leaves and buds of trees (hawthorn, oak and hornbeam) in the spring and summer. Some differences were observed in the way males and females exploited the resources, an observation the scientists put down to differing energy requirements and behavioural patterns. A study by a team at the University of Turin in Italy found that Roe deer in the western Alps had a very variable diet, feeding primarily on dicotyledons (especially herbs and rockrose). Of the monocotyledons, the deer favoured daisies and herbaceous grasses, confirming the Roe deer’s behaviour in selecting food of higher nutritional value.

focusv8

Crows.

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Dirty Harry

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crows magpies rooks ect all classed as "corvids" mates

focusv8

Maybe if you had said "crows, magpies, rooks" instead of corvids, us uneducated people might understand.

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tabetha

http://www.perlgurl.org/archives/200...ot_just_p.html

CAN YOU READ or would you like help with that as well,
tabetha

Stavros

What the FUCK has that got to do with eating roadkill FFS

Some deer on a remote scotish island that are struggling to find shit to eat are eating a few baby birds and now they all fucking meat eaters are they

Dirty Harry

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yes i can read it clearly says "maybe" no proof what so ever,sorry mate stick with the facts and the qualified deer organizations not some rubbish printed with no proof what so ever
deer are not equiped to eat meat,simple facts

Dirty Harry

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I better be carfull form now on when I out stalking I may get eaten by a deer

Oranoco

How can deer be meat eaters. I've never seen one holding a knife and fork

smitsturbo

ive seen them in the butchers tho

Oranoco

What were they buying?

smitsturbo

the where hanging around the other side of the counter

Lambchop

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you guys got any i deer what you're on about?