The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[aoxa]

Yep... but still pretty gross, IMHO.

Many people eat coon meat... Nothing wrong with it.

There are ways to determine if they have rabies.

 

[fallenangel79]

Many people eat coon meat... Nothing wrong with it. 

There are ways to determine if they have rabies. 

did not know you cound eat coon!

 

[aoxa]

did not know you cound eat coon!

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/01/13/59566/the-other-dark-meat-raccoon-is.html
Here's an article about it.

Quote: Well I can't imagine it being organic if it lived in the city, but otherwise sounds pretty accurate to me.

It's gamey. My grandfather has eaten it.

People eat squirrels all the time too.,

 

[fosterson]

Many people eat coon meat... Nothing wrong with it.

There are ways to determine if they have rabies.

Yup. I grew up in really rural East Texas, and my grandfather trapped for pocket money (sad, I know, but times were different then). He always either sold the carcasses or froze em and we'd have em around. They make decent stew and the littler ones aren't bad fried. Not as good as chicken fried squirrel, but still pretty tasty.

 

[ki4got]

Quote:
OEG have white skin, except for the melanized versions that may have dark skin. but not yellow.

 

[aoxa]

Yup. I grew up in really rural East Texas, and my grandfather trapped for pocket money (sad, I know, but times were different then). He always either sold the carcasses or froze em and we'd have em around. They make decent stew and the littler ones aren't bad fried. Not as good as chicken fried squirrel, but still pretty tasty.

 

[Shan30]

Well I can say raccoon is the only carcass we had to get rid of as nothing touched it when we left it out.

I don't think I would try one, there are certain things cooking doesn't kill and well ... it's a raccoon! Eww! Plus with the rabbit population here we won't ever starve.

We used our poor beheaded broody to bait the trap and this morning at 4 am caught a mink. Can't believe it set off a raccoon trap with how light it looked.
That thing was evil! Took a video of it screaming at us on my phone but not sure I can figure out how to post it.

Tanning the hides would be an interesting thing to learn, it does feel like a total waste.

 

[Allysha1990]

I have a homesteading book with recipes for things like raccoon and squirrel... Haven't quite worked up the courage to try any of them lmao

 

[Shan30]

I have a homesteading book with recipes for things like raccoon and squirrel... Haven't quite worked up the courage to try any of them lmao

Funny isn't it, I would try squirrel but not rat. Yet what is a rat but a squirrel without the fluffy tail.

 

[Scott H]

I'm not saying eating coon is gross... I'm saying a whole coon in a pressure cooker is gross. .. and by whole the guy meant (he spelled it out) head, fur. .. the whole 9 yards.