Posted on 07/14/2017 2:41:38 AM PDT by Leaning Right
This reminds of a couple of snake stories involving work at my house. A few years ago I had some major landscaping done that included laying down a net with grass seed to promote growth in the proper places. Unfortunately, the nylon net caught a couple of immature black snakes. Since I like the critters and having them around, I got busy with my Swiss Army Knife and carefully cut each loose.
#14 better than most yard dogs. A damned Goose will hurt you if it doesn’t like you.
Hmmm...coons...”bad”...fat...geese...”bad”...fat...
Maybe something is making the fat taste bad? Try removing all the fat and pushing the meat through a grinder with some garlic and mushrooms...add spices, egg, and wild rice then push into a casing. Parboil and fry. Sort of a gourmet goose bratwurst.
We have one also that comes to the door; actually it’s like a large chipmunk not a squirrel but like yours this little guy just scratches at the front door so finally we bought some boiled peanuts (no shell no mess) and it takes some and doesn’t come back until the next day. Cute little guy.
“”That’s like me trying to get the knots and tangles out of my wife’s necklaces.””
He sure had a lot more patience than I would. I was yelling - Cut the string, for crying out loud.....
Boil the fat out of the Coon. While they have it between the hide and the meat it is also in the meat.
After doing that twice, Put it in the oven seasoned with your favorite herbs and spices, maybe with some taters and carrots and a few onions.
Had it a few times, not bad.
Now Geese...nope just can’t eat the dark meat.
Less work might be to breast them, skin on, like some do wth ducks. Score, season well and fry (mostly skin side down) then serve with sweet & sour red cabbage and some fried apples.
I know some dont like mineraly-ness in their poultry. Maybe embrace the mineral flavor by making it “not poultry”. Bake, cool, refrigerate overnight then slice. Fry bacon,sautee onions in gease. Add goose, then saurkraut, and bacon grease to a pan and warm in the oven. Whipped celriac on the side.
That doesnt leave much, goose is all dark meat. Or you just dont like dark meat in general?
I like coon, Ive had it a couple of times when I was younger but I try for the most part to avoid working wth them now that I have kids around. Too many around here, along with most of our skunks (94? 96%? I forget what I read), are rabid. I know with proper handling risks are small but at least for now the closest Im going to get to tasting one is the other end of the shovel.
Even geese know that cops are there to help you. Take a lesson from the feathery ones people.
Could be. My area is the Northern edge of migration for the Entirely American geese and the Southern edge for the real green card weilding Canadian ones who head up close to the arctic. The town nearby has a resident non migratory population of about 8000 now. They recently had to have a special hunt to bring the numbers down to that level, there had been a lot more.
“We have plenty of geese in Lexington, Kentucky, and I suspect they no longer migrate, but stay here all year round.”
I suspect that the non-migrating geese we are now seeing are decedents of the giant Canada goose subspecies which was nearly extinct 50 or more years ago.
According to Wikipedia “By the early 20th century, overhunting and loss of habitat in the late 19th century and early 20th century had resulted in a serious decline in the numbers of this bird in its native range. The giant Canada goose subspecies was believed to be extinct in the 1950s until, in 1962, a small flock was discovered wintering in Rochester, Minnesota, by Harold Hanson of the Illinois Natural History Survey.[16] In 1964, the Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center was built near Jamestown, North Dakota. Its first director, Harvey K. Nelson, talked Forrest Lee into leaving Minnesota to head the center’s Canada goose production and restoration program. Forrest soon had 64 pens with 64 breeding pairs of screened, high-quality birds. The project involved private, state, and federal resources and relied on the expertise and cooperation of many individuals. By the end of 1981, more than 6,000 giant Canada geese had been released at 83 sites in 26 counties in North Dakota.[17] With improved game laws and habitat recreation and preservation programs, their populations have recovered in most of their range, although some local populations, especially of the subspecies B. c. occidentalis, may still be declining.[citation needed]”
They go to places (and people) that are familiar to them. The patrol car probably sits there most of the time. For some reason. Besides, that is where the donuts are.
Critters are exceptionally smart when it comes to things necessary to survive. They generally are subject to the rules of survival of the fittest and we are not. Their specie improves and ours does not.
I call them Canadian poop machines. I swear that’s ALL they do.
I came across a bird that had it’s head caught in some of that square net used to reinforce sod. It was tricky to hold the bird and cut the mesh with my pocket knife. As I was almost done, I spotted a fox watching us from about 15 feet away. No free lunch for that fellow.
That’s where I thought this happened too.
I’ve been chased by geese and also got spurred by a mean rooster. My brother was bitten by a very large swan.
“Dogs bark, liberals lie, cows moo
But what did the fox say?”
Nothing. He just jumps over the lazy dog.
“And you won’t believe what happens next when he used this one weird trick!”
The FOX said, “Dump the Shepard!”
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