Posted on 11/27/2010 7:04:06 AM PST by decimon
Better a GAMO pellet gun.. makes less noise..
but the article is from the UK. I suspect it was written by MO, encouraging the little people to eat cake with their squirrel and home garden grown arugula when the prices skyrocket at the supermarket...
YUM! — Tree Rat Stew.
How much “food insecurity” do we have to see before someone gets the idea to take out all those stupid, pooping geese down by the pond at the park in town.
You folks make me hungry. I’m going to have lunch.
I have eaten smoked beaver tail and, except for a small center
bone, it was indistinguishable from Canadian bacon.
Every pond in every town. Between squirrel, deer and goose, there's animal protein all around us.
Recipes for the hunter’s wife.
Even better incentive for good markmanship.
The Boers of South Africa used to do the same when hunting lion. But they didn't use .22s. Or there wouldn't have been very many Boers.
I have had one heckuva time branding mine. I can't get 'em to stay still for the half second it takes to make a good mark on 'em. And the females don't give much milk either. Any suggestions?
I had an uncle who cooked just about anything that moved. Many a meal at his house was ‘chicken’, until I realized the legs were awfully small for chicken.. During the meal he finally admitted it was squirrel. Seemed like he needed a LOT of squirrels to make a decent meal- not very meaty. Tasted good tho. He also cooked rabbit, alligator,dove and nutria- which is very good. If it were sold commercially, I’d buy and recommend it to anyone. I actually like the gamey taste of things.
The squirrels in these parts are trying to figure out how to get inside the house. If I left the door open, they would just walk in.
My grandfather, an Appalachian boy, liked to eat squirrel brains with scrambled eggs. It came out a few years back that eating squirrel brains caused that same deadly nerve disease that was ravaging the cattle in the UK. They had been feeding the cattle feed made from infected sheep; then they later discovered that some of the cases in the United States were caused by eating squirrel brains. Yuk! to that anyway. As for eating squirrel meat in general, they’re a pain to clean or so my husband now says. He used to hunt and eat them years ago. No more.
Not really...rats are scabs. Squirrel’s diets consist of nuts, fruit, berries...maybe the occasional insect. There is a vast difference between the two.
there’s also a vast difference between country rats and city rats...
I live in the country and the only rats here are democrats :)
In all seriousness, rural areas are just not plagued with them. Mice...different story...rats are fairly rare.
My husband loved squirrel. When at camp during deer season, all the guys also hunted squirrel...they said its tasty, I never consumed any....sautee in frying pan...
City life is convenient but it sucks...
Had free roaming farm geese and their poop was bigger than my dogs...They never wanders from the farm and spent most of their time in the pond. But my turkeys got out once and my neighbor called to tell me they were heading for the woods behind his house...they spotted me coming after them with a switch and turned around and headed back home, gobbling at each other all the way back...
When let out of their fenced in area, I had to keep my eye on them...
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