Where do you draw the line!

[dannyd]

Now that's a scary thought to contemplate!!!

Over in Africa was asked: do you eat rat: me no. Person who asked that said basically: it’s great you have never been hungry.

 

[david s]

Rabbits are cute and fuzzy but they basically exist in the greater scheme of things because there food for everything.

 

[fiver]

rats out of the rice paddy's are like a yearly celebration in many places.
I'd imagine rat from the paddy has to be better than alley cat, I've tried the cat.

 

[Kevin Stenberg]

This spring i was interested in raising meat rabbits. But the wife put the brakes on that project really fast.

 

[glassparman]

My dogs used to kill the cotton tails on my property. The dogs got old, one died and the other doesn't care anymore.

So now there are lots of them running around my 5 acres. Someone once told me there were only certain months here in the Mojave Desert that you could eat them. Anybody remember the rule? It might be the same across the country.

I'm letting them reproduce as much as they can because, you know, I might need to eat them if SHTF.

Anyway, when I was in the Army stationed in Korea in 1984, I ate dog (kaegogi) but I didn't know until they told me. I had kangaroo and alligator when I went to Australia. I figure if I'm hungry, I'll eat whatever is necessary.

 

[Rick H]

They used to say "after the first Frost around here......not sure that would help at all in the Mohave desert.

 

[JonB]

This spring i was interested in raising meat rabbits. But the wife put the brakes on that project really fast.

When I moved to Glencoe (early 1990s), I heard of a farmer raising rabbits and selling meat. It's good stuff, as good as Chicken, but all white meat. I bought quite a bit from him.

 

[blackthorn]

Growing up I ate lots of wild rabbit, both jack and bush (cottontail), the only time(s) we had to watch was when the rabbits got the rabbit plague, I think it was called Tularemia or some such. If I shot a rabbit and it had boils, it got burried in the manure pile.

 

[smokeywolf]

In the warmer months, rabbits are sometimes full of worms. The rule of thumb is/was, harvest wild rabbit in any month with an "R" in it. That rule would only work in places where Winter lasts 9 months. In SoCal, I didn't take cotton tails before December or after March.

The disease rabbits are most susceptible to is Tularemia. When I would dress out a rabbit, I'd check the liver for white spots. Only encountered that once. That carcass got disposed of so as not to spread its infection.

 

[fiver]

yep month's with R in them.