Brent S
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When it comes down to it, just about everything is survival food.Yes, the taste are between rabbit and squirrel, groundhogs have been a survival food for centuries.
When it comes down to it, just about everything is survival food.Yes, the taste are between rabbit and squirrel, groundhogs have been a survival food for centuries.
When it comes down to it, just about everything is survival food.
Has anyone here eaten woodchucks?
When I was a kid in upstate New York, we had a siberian huskey that killed them very efficiently and often.
I seem to recall that she iced 175 of them (almost definitely a gross underestimate) in one year.
The alfalfa farmers loved her.
Can woodchucks be eaten? What do they taste like (please don't tell me 'chicken')?
How do you cook them?
That it is, though I'll try to stick with things I know taste good or at least tolerable (providing I have a choice) but if one likes squirrel they going to like groundhog (same family) plus more meat and better tasting.
The critter that I have the most problems with are chipmunks. We have little tiny ones here not much bigger than a field mouse. They get in the barn and the stacked lumber and attract rattlesnakes. I keep out several of my weasel traps baited with peanut butter to get rid of the little bastards. Haven't had any problems with squirrels (douglas?) yet. When a badger digs out a squirrel they leave a heck of a hole though.I fight with both, the groundhog goes after my alfalfa and I know the bee farmers here have issue with em eating the clovers. Haven't had much of a problem with squirrels (douglas squirrel) other than getting in the grain and digging holes in the lawn and flower beds hiding the winter cache, we also have the ground squirrels (aka grave digger) they are far more destructive with all the holes in the pastures for the horses, they live in the same environment as the groundhogs.
Normally, I think chipmunks are really cute little buggars. In all honestly, there destructive little buggars though. I had one pilfering dog food and storing it in the muffler of the generator. I posted this somewhere else here, but when I fired the generator it started sort of backfiring and was spitting out dog food nuggets. After a couple minutes it was shooting smoking dog food nuggets. After a couple more minutes I had a full fledged dog food nugget flame thrower! It finally cleared out all the dog food, at least a couple cups worth. Now, the chipmunks aren't nearly as cute.The critter that I have the most problems with are chipmunks. We have little tiny ones here not much bigger than a field mouse. They get in the barn and the stacked lumber and attract rattlesnakes. I keep out several of my weasel traps baited with peanut butter to get rid of the little bastards. Haven't had any problems with squirrels (douglas?) yet. When a badger digs out a squirrel they leave a heck of a hole though.
Duck eggs are good to eat. I've eaten them on many occasions.It's interesting reading about everyone's various rodent problems in their yards and seeing what area(s) they're from on the left.
Not to derail the conversation further, the soil is terrible where I am, at least in my yard.
- We have a German Shepard and I don't know how she'll react to a chicken, and it at all possible I would want to keep is free range as much as possible. We have some high 11 foot walls surrounding the yard so I'm sure it would help, and there is a chicken specialty feed store not all that far from here so it piqued my interest.
Does anyone here happen to raise any other birds for their eggs? I know many are edible and chickens are notoriously fast layers. Some breeds an egg a day after maturity for much of their lives if what I read was true.
It's interesting reading about everyone's various rodent problems in their yards and seeing what area(s) they're from on the left.
Not to derail the conversation further, the soil is terrible where I am, at least in my yard.
- We have a German Shepard and I don't know how she'll react to a chicken, and it at all possible I would want to keep is free range as much as possible. We have some high 11 foot walls surrounding the yard so I'm sure it would help, and there is a chicken specialty feed store not all that far from here so it piqued my interest.
Does anyone here happen to raise any other birds for their eggs? I know many are edible and chickens are notoriously fast layers. Some breeds an egg a day after maturity for much of their lives if what I read was true.
1 goose egg equals 3 chicken eggs . . . .sorryWe have both chickens and geese. I love goose eggs! Their yolk is thicker than a chicken eggs. 1 goose egg = 1 chicken egg. The shell is also thicker which means less accidental breaking when hens go into the nesting boxes to lay. Only draw back is you get 1 every other day & geese are more aggressive so need to be careful if you have small kids.
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