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Old 02-20-2009, 03:10 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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I wonder what Davy Crockett would think about that! But I'll try anything once, maybe even twice - just as long as I'm not personally acquainted with it and have to butcher it myself. But coons are pretty smart - I might feel about like I was eating a family dog or something.

Someone in another forum posted something about cheap meats for the upcoming depression and mentioned armadillo. Anyone ever eat dillo meat? I'd be kind of leery of it, since dillos are the only animals [I think] that can carry leprosy. At least they can carry it, I'm just not sure if they are the only ones that do. And somewhere I have a recipe for mouse pie from the Canadian equivalent of the Ag Extension, but I have doubts about that too, what with Hanta virus.
I'll be one to raise my own chickens and okra...I can live on fried egg sandwiches and fried chicken and fried okra...well maybe a few home grown tomatoes too...I've been told that the dillos taste like young pork...I'm just not buying that story...

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Old 02-20-2009, 03:39 PM
 
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I'll be one to raise my own chickens and okra...I can live on fried egg sandwiches and fried chicken and fried chicken...well maybe a few home grown tomatoes too...I've been told that the dillos taste like young pork...I'm just not buying that story...
Chickens are different. It doesn't matter if I'm acquainted with them, they aren't cuddly and cute once they get big enough to eat, they can be downright nasty tempered. Of course, cattle aren't exactly cuddly either, but there's still those soft brown eyes... I'd rather cut a bull calf and train it as an ox. I wouldn't eat guinea pigs either, I don't care how many Peruvian Natives raise them for food - we had too many of them for pets, and they were really cute [and smart].
 
Old 02-20-2009, 03:55 PM
 
Location: Stillwater, OK
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seems like it would be an awful lot of work to clean a mouse carcass for that little amount of meat
 
Old 02-20-2009, 03:56 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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seems like it would be an awful lot of work to clean a mouse carcass for that little amount of meat
And hardly worth wasting good ammo on....
 
Old 02-20-2009, 04:22 PM
 
Location: Fort Worth/Dallas
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And hardly worth wasting good ammo on....
I'm not at that stage "yet."
 
Old 02-20-2009, 04:33 PM
 
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seems like it would be an awful lot of work to clean a mouse carcass for that little amount of meat
One would think so. If I ever find the recipe again I'll see what it says, though I think it only uses lots of hind quarters. But it was intended for the wheat farmers in Alberta, the ones who had lots of silos and Butlers to store grain and silage. It was a way of making use of the vast quantities of mice available. I guess it there's enough to fill some live traps, there's no point in wasting protein. As I recall, they didn't call it mouse pie, they called it souris. From the voyageurs, I imagine - and mice are bound to taste better than mink or otter, at least they are grain-fed rather than fishy.
 
Old 02-20-2009, 04:37 PM
 
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And hardly worth wasting good ammo on....
But mice and rats are great for target practice. That's how I learned to shoot!
 
Old 02-20-2009, 04:41 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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But mice and rats are great for target practice. That's how I learned to shoot!
22 shorts would not be to expensive for lessons...Just don't do like my FIL did..He set one on fire in the wood pile only to have it run a blazing into his barn.... Was a close call putting that one out.
 
Old 02-20-2009, 05:08 PM
 
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22 shorts would not be to expensive for lessons...Just don't do like my FIL did..He set one on fire in the wood pile only to have it run a blazing into his barn.... Was a close call putting that one out.
No, I just got really annoyed when the wood rats would come out and eat the chicken feed I'd gone to so much trouble to get home. The chickens ignored them and the dogs ignored them, and my ex had gotten rid of my cat, so I started shooting them whenever they got in the chicken pen. Way away from any buildings other than the little hen house - besides, it was usually raining anyway.
 
Old 02-20-2009, 05:17 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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No, I just got really annoyed when the wood rats would come out and eat the chicken feed I'd gone to so much trouble to get home. The chickens ignored them and the dogs ignored them, and my ex had gotten rid of my cat, so I started shooting them whenever they got in the chicken pen. Way away from any buildings other than the little hen house - besides, it was usually raining anyway.
Thanks for the tip about the wood rats....I be bringing ten or so kitties with me....they like to hunt...rather feed them than wood rats....
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