Game

As a reserve game or gate Wild (also Agricultural Wild entertainment ) refers to wild animals or wild , that in the care of people in cages kept is. The technical assignment and definition differs greatly.

Definitions

• Germany: Wild-clawed animals (even-toed ungulates) that are kept in enclosures for the purpose of obtaining meat for human consumption are considered livestock and not game in terms of food and animal disease law .

Animals

Gatterwild include:

• Camels
• American bison
• Breeding ungulates of the genus cloven : deer , fallow deer , Muffelwild , Sika deer , elk
• wild boar

Outside of Europe, other species are also used commercially as game animals. The meat of springbok and kangaroo is one of the exotic types of meat . This also includes the meat of bison and camels.

When farmed game is called breeding ratites (in food law meaning ostrich , emu ) and non domestic ungulates.

The keeping of wild fowl ( pheasant , partridge , quail , guinea fowl ) is not part of the game, but poultry keeping . The keeping of wild animals for the production of furs and skins is also not part of the game.

venison

The game , meat, from wild animals is richer in fat and has a different taste from that of wild animals.

See also

• Agricultural game keeping , main item

literature

• Agricultural game keeping - A guide , published by Bayerische Landesanstalt für Landwirtschaft , 2004, ISSN  1611-4159

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss Ordinance on Slaughter and Meat Control
2. ↑ Leaflet for keeping game animals of the Ortenauskreis
3. ↑ Swiss Ordinance on Slaughter and Meat Control
4. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Food, Agriculture and Forests
5. ↑ Leaflet for keeping game animals of the Ortenauskreis
6. ↑ Gerald Rimbach, Jennifer Möhring, Helmut F. Erbersdobler: Food product knowledge for beginners , Springer, 2010, ISBN 9783642044854 , p. 72