Transporting geese for a couple hours

[hunterednate]

take a look at seasoning birds.... historically, if you have 40F-50F you can hang week to 18 days before processing... you have no issues at all , just keep out of sun...

i leave my birds a week normally, that's all birds b4 processing/pulling apart

Definitely. I used to clean my ducks and geese the day I shot them, but now I hang my birds on a strap for a week or longer before doing anything to them. They taste delicious. The heads will start to get stinky after a week, but the meat is always in great shape when I breast them.

[HikerHunter]

I once cleaned a batch in a hotel bathroom.  Thankfully,  I ran out of beer just about the time I finished. Looked like a murder scene.  It was bad.

My thoughts....split the breast to begin cooling, throw in a cooler with a bag or two of ice, get on the road, get home and breast em out fully and be done.

Your comment reminded me, I stayed in a hotel that had a sign next to the sink that said not to clean birds in the sink. Where else am I supposed to clean them when its freezing cold outside?!?!?!

[h20hunter]

I saw the same sign.....however the tub was not labeled as such!!!

[BD1]

 

[HikerHunter]

I saw the same sign.....however the tub was not labeled as such!!!

the loophole, I like it!

[dilleytech]

They will be fine for the day but if your taking the thighs which you really should I recommend cutting them up the same day. Pro longed sitting increases the odds of getting goose guts into your leg meat if they had pellets through that area and nothing ruins a meal like tasting waterfowl crap.