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[Charles07]

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Indeed. My grandfather taught me the same thing, but we ate only racoon and not possum. I am willing to try it though.

He would feed them only bread and milk for about 2 weeks.

I haven't eaten racoon in years, I might again though. Lately I have been shooting them on site, boiling them and letting them simmer for a few days and feeding them to my chickens. Oh the irony.

Explain to me the clean out thing please? Why do they need to be cleaned out? Please explain as though speaking to a child.

They eat really, really nasty stuff. What things eat is secreted out through its pores and is deposited into its muscles. You trap them for a week or two and feed them good food to clean out their digestive tracts. It takes the odor and nasty greasiness out of the meat.

 

[jaku]

I've never been hungry enough that raccoon sounded tasty.

 

[PunkinPeep]

Thanks for the explanation.

If ever i need to start eating raccoons and possums, i will remember what you told me.

 

[PatS]

Dang, Steve, Can we come to your place for dinner? Your family eats GOOD.
And do you have the quail buffalo wings recipe handy?

Yum!

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Explain to me the clean out thing please? Why do they need to be cleaned out? Please explain as though speaking to a child.

They eat really, really nasty stuff. What things eat is secreted out through its pores and is deposited into its muscles. You trap them for a week or two and feed them good food to clean out their digestive tracts. It takes the odor and nasty greasiness out of the meat.

They are omnivors just like your chickens, and our way way way way back family, they eat what comes there way and it leaves a not so good taste in the meat. . I would take a home cleaned out 'possum over Burger King any day(actually for me off the hoof possum over BK

) . Same taste difference as home grown pork vice store bought, or beef or chicken or fish.

Steve

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Anytime Pat, you guys are more than welcome if you ever come to Eastern, NC. Any wing sauce will do for the quail, I like a horse radish, hot sauce, garlic, light salt, black pepper mix with a little maple syrup to offset the heat.

Steve

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

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Caught live and held in a "clean out" cage for 2 weeks. Learned that one from my Grandfather, he always had 'possums and 'coons in cages behind the barn. I thought it was cool that he kept them as pets.... little did I know.

Steve

Now see Steve-I wont do it but you make me want to raise those animals for eating and not just pets- that looks fabulous!!!

Ya right, I can hear you now..... more please, can I chew on that possum neck bone, fighting with the pit bull over the leftovers.

Steve

 

[KatyTheChickenLady]

oh man here you guys go down that possum and coon trail again . . . lol!

 

[Thundrr-Chicken]

i've been wanting to add to this thread since it started... and tonight... we made it happen... first... we hatched some barnyard mixes that some friends gave to us... and one of them turned into the meanest little chicken... he was a killer and a plucker...

here he is

so... i made him look like this

just a lil guy

then... we had 4 rhode island red roosters that were quickly approaching crowing age... 22 weeks here... we tried to sell them at a poultry swap but we didnt have any takers....

so the 4 of them had to go from looking like that... to looking like this

now... as for cooking them up tonight.... i stole mmpoultryfarms idea... yeah.. the lil guy got a quarter of an onion stuffed inside him... and then they got stuffed inside the big guy....

fried up the gizzards and livers

added a pot of egg noodles

and this is what you get

yummmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[EricH]

im picking the bones clean from the first one i butchered. could barely get her in the crock pot... TASTEY, stuffed it full of home grown garlic, onions, and zuchinni. very good. been eating roasted chicken sandwiches for about 3 days now... definately gonna make it easier to butcher another one with how good this one turned out.