What to do with a trapped coon.................

[Bear Foot Farm]

I thought they are too nasty to even touch, much less eat

They aren't any dirtier than a chicken​

 

[cwc362]

I don't eat wild meat but I would if I couldn't get anything else. We used to catch coons and oppossums and we would always fatten them up on corn and give them to older relatives and friends who like to eat them.

 

[cwc362]

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Not that I'm against eating wild animals - It's just a taste preference. But I weigh about 250 - If I couldn't get all this hamburger and other stuff - I'm pretty sure I'd clean up the old gun and start making me some traps.--- LOL

 

[aprophet]

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I know a number of folks who still do it just this way fattening things up on sweet potatoes grits etc. etc it is a good amount cheaper then store bought, musquash is much the same taste as rabbit just most folks cannot wrap their mind around the tail .

 

[CariLynn]

I can remember my grandmother telling me how her family would eat squirrel, raccoon, ground hog, etc. when she was growing up as they were poor and the family needed the protein. Would I personally eat it? No, but that is because I can go to the store and buy what I need, or it is in the freezer downstairs.

As for horse...to each his own but I personally, because I own 4 equines of my own, honestly don't wish to hear that someone else had horse and how tasty it was. And yes, I freely admit that it is is all emotional but can tell you, I feel passionately that those foreign states who import our US horses need to buy and eat their own. But then again, that is a whole nother story.

So, this equine owning forum member asks those who have tried horse to please, keep it to yourself. It does honestly make me sick to my stomach to think that someone willingly ate a horse...

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

A.T. Hagan :

When I was a boy we used to sell coons. Skinned and gutted but it was very important to leave one of the front paws attached. Got a couple of bucks apiece for them back in the seventies.

.....Alan.

Ha, sounds like good $. In the early 1960's we used to trap coons. We'd get $2 a hide & $.50 for the meat. We also left on a front foot. The old couple that lived across the creek would buy all the meat we trapped. Possum, coon, fox, muskrat, squirrel, & rabbits. They were a very nice OLD black couple that used to live off the land,& farm a little, but got too old to do so, so we trapped like mad to get our spending money. We used to shoot a couple of deer for them too..... at no charge.​

 

[spectrumranch]

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Actually I prefer people to offer experience and opinions. If they eat horse, so be it, to me that would be the real world. Not dissussing it or talking about it, won't change the reality of people eating horse. Not that I want to butcher any of our horses, but I do realize that they are still livestock.

I am not looking to turn this thread I started, into a debate on horse slaughter, so if anyone wants to discuss that please start a new thread. But discussing things that people eat, no matter what source, would be good.

 

[Koolduck]

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Ahh....if you were hungry enough....let's all pray we never see that day....there wasnt a horse left standing in Europe after WW1...they went to starving bellies..... I own horses too and I would hate to have to do it but if I was hungry enough and if it was between the horses or my Husband...it would be the horses...the husband would be too tough and stringy!....let alone all the meds/steriods he has taken for his allergies!

 

[moetrout]

I have eaten coon back when I was a kid. Mom always told us it was chicken. Those legs sure didn't look right, but it tasted ok. Same thing with turtles, we could tell trutles though, too skinny to be chicken.

I could be wrong, but I do believe it is illegal to sell wild game like that guy is doing.

 

[CariLynn]

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Ahh....if you were hungry enough....let's all pray we never see that day....there wasnt a horse left standing in Europe after WW1...they went to starving bellies..... I own horses too and I would hate to have to do it but if I was hungry enough and if it was between the horses or my Husband...it would be the horses...the husband would be too tough and stringy!....let alone all the meds/steriods he has taken for his allergies!

Actually NO I would not eat my horse should I be starving. I know all about WWII and European wars..I wrote many an article about the use of animals in all the wars in fact, Vietnam too with their service dogs.