Whole spit roast fallow with thyme and garlic

It has long been an ambition of mine to cook a whole carcass of venison on a spit roast so when Steve came across the Winkleton Shoot shed, it was the perfect place to do it.

Whole deer cook well on a spit roast but be careful that the carcass is not too old or large. In this recipe I used a 15kg carcass (cleaned, skinned weight). You can go bigger by about 5 or 6kg but the larger the carcass, the longer it will take to cook and the longer it spends on the spit, the