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Web site dedicated to catching, killing, cleaning, and cooking squirrels.
https://eatasquirrel.com/
https://eatasquirrel.com/
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At the BOL we have both grey squirrels and fox squirrels. The fox squirrels have over twice as much meat on them. I rarely see the grey squirrels anywhere but right around the cabin. There are fox squirrels there around the cabin too so the two occupy the same ecological niche, although it seems the fox squirrels like to hang out up near the top of the trees and grey squirrels hang out closer to the ground.Grey Squirrels in this area, very small, may need a few for a decent feed.
How would you make that? Sounds good. I might try it next time I goMmmm. Squirrel fritters.
How would you make that? Sounds good. I might try it next time I go
Thats similar to the way I prepare beaver and coon. Only I don't gut them. After skinning I cut off the better strips of meat. I'm getting ready to skin a coon right now. He may go in the skillet when I'm done.Obviously you gut and skin. Then, strip off the meat. Batter, spice and fry.
Oh my gosh, that sounds awful to me. Does it really taste good?Thats similar to the way I prepare beaver and coon. Only I don't gut them. After skinning I cut off the better strips of meat. I'm getting ready to skin a coon right now. He may go in the skillet when I'm done.
We have so few squirrels here, we only see about 10 per year, if lucky. Large rabbits and pheasant tho. Deer everyday, but they are so human shy, I would have to wait all night in camo and get close enough to get them with bow and arrow.
I feed my local squirrels, so in the future they may feed me. They are safe until I need to harvest them.
Absolutely. Give it a try sometime. Meat after SHTF is the least of my worries. In addition to beaver and coon I've eaten bobcat and muskrat too. They're all good eating. I don't care for porcupine though. In the old days porcupine was considered starvation food for the trappers and miners.Oh my gosh, that sounds awful to me. Does it really taste good?
Last Fall I planted 20 acres of alfalfa for the same reason, to feed the deer and elk. Food on the hoof. During late summer we have the only water for quite a ways around here. We have a large spring fed pond and several water tanks for the cattle and wildlife.I feed my local squirrels, so in the future they may feed me. They are safe until I need to harvest them.
Send them back to Vietnam. They wipe out huckleberrys, mushrooms and fish in some areas. I've heard that in some city neighborhoods, there isn't a cat, rabbit, squirrel or dog left running around.In the mountains surrounding California's Central Valley we have a bit of a problem here. Mung hunters (came over here after the Vietnam War) hunt squirrels for food. They hunt a lot of them. In my area Grey Squirrels are somewhat rare. They have hunted them extensively on my mountain. But meanwhile, we are almost overrun with ground squirrels---nasty pests.
So, my question is how do we get the Mung to hunt and eat ground squirrels?
Here we have both grey and fox squirrel. Last year I killed around 20. I skin and freeze. I batter and deep fry, make a mean squirrel pie and throw in my gumbo. My property has 9 huge oaks and 6 hickory so I always have a heavy squirrel population. If I did not kill they would wipe out both my strawberries and my blueberries. They eat the fruit green. I even have some pint jars of squirrel meat canned in chicken broth that I home canned to get out of the freezer. They are terribly destructive critters if the numbers are not kept down here.
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