good. we have lots of Hares here in California. time to start catching a few of them.
Ping!
With memories of hard times, WW II and the depression on his mind, my dad decided to take matters into hand and produce his own meat supply. In the late 40’s or early 50’s he started raising rabbits behind the garage on his city lot.
We ate rabbit for many years and I must say my memories are that it is good.
"Cok! Bling me my hossenfeffel!"
Well I guess it beats the “Zimbabwe Diet.”
The food shortages come with those big doses of Chairman Mao’s inspiration for both North Korea’s regieme and Mugabe of Zimbabwe.
They’ve lost electric power in Zimbabwe this weekend, does that mean they are “North Korea” now.
Well the United States cut a deal to give NK stuff so they won’t continue their nuclear program.
More peace and harmony in the world?
Ha...ha...
Fried rabbit used to be served on a regular basis in the Ellison Dining Facility at NAS Memphis.
“Rabbit meat, unlike sweet meat(translator’s note:sweet meat = dog meat), causes no heartburn afterwards, great for your health.”
Rover, is that you in my stew?
They told me that they can't get it any more locally because the inspection requirements had changed or something, and the local rabbit rancher would have had to go through way too many hoops to be FDA certified (like a regular packing plant) so they quit.
Too bad, cause I just don't have time to raise them myself to eat (I've got too much other livestock to take care of).
Never tried...sweet meat..though.
Nutritional Value of Rabbit Meat
Average Nutritional Content of Rabbit meat is:
Calories – 300g (18% from Fat, 82% form protein & 0% from
Carbohydrate);
Total Fat –
4.1g
__2.3g Lipid Fat,
__0.7g Saturated Fat,
__0.6g Monosaturated Fat,
__0.4g polysaturated Fat
__86mg Cholesterol;
Sodium – 40mg; Carbohydrate – 0g; Dietary Fat – 0g; Sugar – 0;
Protien – 41.9g,
Calcium – 12mg;
Water – 58.9;
Ash – 1.1;
Alcohol & Caffeine – 0.
Nutritional Value of Edible Meats:
Rabbit (% Protein – 20.8, % Fat – 4.5, Calories/Ib – 795)
Veal (% Protein – 19.1, % Fat – 12, Calories/Ib – 840)
Chicken (% Protein – 20.0, % Fat – 17.9, Calories/Ib – 810)
Turkey (% Protein – 20.1, % Fat – 20, Calories/Ib – 1,190)
Lamb (% Protein – 15.7, % Fat – 27.7, Calories/Ib – 1,420)
Beef (% Protein – 16.3, % Fat – 28.0, Calories/Ib – 1,440)
Duck (% Protein – 16.0, % Fat – 28.6, Calories/Ib – 1,015)
Pork (% Protein – 11.9, % Fat – 45, Calories/Ib – 2,050)
Unfortunately, very low caloric content relative to other meats. Not too helpful when your population is starving. Would be great in the US and Europe with the high incidence of obesity.
Well, doggone!
I like a rabbit stew, from time to time, once all the pellets are removed. (can you say #7 shot?)
One caution, don't play with the rabbits before you eat them. Throws off your appetite. Several guys in my flight at AFROTC field training did just that. One of them was my roommate, a city boy from BYU. He managed to help skin it, because we all had to do a little of that (The hard "big game" way, not the the easy rabbit way), but no way was he going to eat any of it, and it put him off to where couldn't even eat the "chili" made from the dried meat in the seat pack survival kit. Fine with me, more for me. (One rabbit between 8 or so guys doesn't go very far anyway, I got a haunch). I think that was the best tasting rabbit I ever had, roasted over an open fire on a spit. Yummy.
I did draw the line at eating the eyeballs. That was a "gross 'em out" trick all of the survival instructors (down from the USAF survival school) pulled. They'd pop in an eyeball, raw, and then ask if anyone wanted the other one. No takers in my group (flight was split into 3 groups for the exercise). However a guy in another group, from El Cajon CA who wanted to be a mortician, asked the FTO if he could remove some demerits if he ate one, and the FTO said sure, 5 demerits. He ate the eyeball and then ran to the other two groups asking if we had any eyeballs left. We did, he ate it for 5 more demerits. But he must have had a bunch of demerits, cause he was still out there walking tours on Saturday after "pass in review".
I hope they like it with tree bark......
OH MAN that big rabbit is that for Chia pet?
Ain't Communism wonderful?
While in Bavaria 50 years ago, these monster sized rabbits or hares would scare the bejeepers out of us when they jumped out of tall grass during war games; the deer always looked tiny.There is a rabbit in my yard that jumps around everywhere nibbling the shrubs and leaving huge amounts of droppings. The tracks cover at least a couple hundred feet in each direction. Finally saw the little fellow, he’s mostly white and about the size of a furry softball. All that activity and he would hardly make a sandwich if I caught him.
They're very efficient animals. Almost half the food that they eat ends up as meat (chickens do a bit better than that).
As for making pets of them, I made that mistake with one rabbit. It broke my heart to butcher her, and I could't eat her. With all the rest, though, they were just meat on the hoof. I had no problem either butchering or eating them.
Before I would butcher one, I'd sharpen my knife. The cats learned that when they heard a knife being sharpened, they were in for treats: liver, kidneys, heart. I removed the gall bladder from the liver before throwing it to the cats.