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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rogwar on January 29, 2014, 11:36:48 AM
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We were in Twisted Root Burger for the first time this weekend and noticed they had beaver on the game menu for burgers. They had other stuff like kangaroo, emu and elk. Daughter got buffalo and me and the missus had beef.
Darned expensive place for a burger as well but it was tasty.
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I don't think it is necessary to make a joke about the subject...too easy.
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And so it begins... :noid
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Okay I'll bite first.......Yes, Nightly except I take a week break every month or so..
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Long story short, when I was about 16 or so living on the farm, a neighbor got a permit to kill a nuisance beaver. He wanted to keep the hide, my folks asked for the meat. It spent the afternoon in the pressure cooker.
I'm not sure if it was because I was a 16 year old farm kid, but it tasted alright to me. Not gourmet but not unpleasant. The folks had smelled it cooking all day, and pretty much couldn't eat it. They said it tasted like poplar bark. It was gamey for sure, but not too bad to me.
The tail was interesting. We figured it would be pretty decent if it were mixed in with brown beans.
As an aside, porcupine tastes like greasy pork more or less. That's about the extent of my forays into the 'Is this thing edible?' game.
Wiley.
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Okay I'll bite first.......Yes, Nightly except I take a week break every month or so..
Just couldnt let it be could ya? :rofl :rofl :aok
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He wanted to keep the hide, my folks asked for the meat. It spent the afternoon in the pressure cooker.
That's how I like my beaver, naked and warm.
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I like the fact that you can floss your teeth with every beaver burger bite. :t
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Okay I'll bite first.......Yes, Nightly except I take a week break every month or so..
beginning last month I dont have to take a week off anymore :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:. finally getting older pays off :x :x :x.
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beginning last month I dont have to take a week off anymore :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:. finally getting older pays off :x :x :x.
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My wife ended up with bad fibriods and as she had already had 3 kids the doctor recommended a hysterectomy (sp>?) but the op was done in such a way as to ensure that she still produced estrogen and all the "horny" hormones.
Best thing EVAR!!!
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you can cut the tails up and slice it like bacon, cook it up like bacon and its pretty dang good, a friend of mine was into traping and got a beaver. I have had rattlesnake, elk, deer, bear, moose, rabbit, squirrel, all kinds of stuff. A guy I work with said woodchuck is pretty good also.
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My wife ended up with bad fibriods.....
Best thing EVAR!!!
T M I !
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Rattlesnake tastes like chicken. Very stringy, tough chicken.
Almost like it had to use all of its muscles all of the time when it was moving. :p
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I have eaten snake and rabbit many times in my life. but I went I went to wrustucke in venice california, they had some great rattlesnake and rabbit sausage. and about 80 different types of beer to wash it down. if you go there, dont forget the fries. they're awesome.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/wurstk%C3%BCche-venice-venice-2
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I used to do a lot of trapping, and sampled more than a few of the critters I caught.
Beaver and muskrat aren't bad at all. Honestly, you can cook it like beef and especially if you shred it and mix it with some barbeque sauce you wouldn't hardly notice the difference. As mentioned, the tail is a different consistency entirely, but is also quite good. We just took the tail and laid it in the coals of a fire to cook it, and then peeled the skin off. The skin from the tail makes some pretty cool knife sheaths, otherwise.
Raccoon is kind of like greasy pork too. Not too terrible; definitely edible.
Actually, if you've eaten vanilla-flavored foods like ice cream you've probably sampled the castor sac secretions of beaver, which are marketed as "natural flavorings". Although mainly used for vanilla flavoring, they have a few other uses too. And the sacs are used in other industries than food too. They're used in some perfumes and some scent-sprays; they used to be used for medicine (but I don't think so anymore?); and I think they even use it to flavor cigarettes?
The scent beaver put off is quite noticeable, but also pretty pleasant.
When I trapped beaver, I normally kept (and then sold) the pelt, but also I harvested the castor sacs and anal glands (all four glands are in close proximity to each other). I could either hang the glands and sacs to dry, and then sell them to the fur buyer or else I could grind them and make a liquid-putty bait that obviously worked well for attracting beaver, but also worked well for fox and coyote.
A fair share of the carcasses that I didn't want I donated to a local zoo, which was eager to take them for their carnivores (lots of big cats, wolves, bears). They also love it if you donate fresh road-killed deer, for that matter.
Beaver were always one of my favorite animals to catch. Not all that difficult to catch, but big (up to around 70#), neat animals. They're also generally pretty plentiful, and a thorn in the side of many property owners. I had many places where helping remove some beaver opened the door for me to trap other critters like coyotes, foxes, 'coons, 'rats, and otter. They're also not terrible in value (either sold as dried pelts to the buyer, or as tanned hides to folks who want to use them for man-cave display). I often paid a small fee to have them tanned, so I could sell them for a higher value as tanned hides. I still have several around the house.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=240C_F7rMr0
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I perfer the red furry kind
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The Best meat you will EVER eat is Hippo. :rock
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If you dont get lost under it
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This one always makes me laugh....
http://youtu.be/KvtPuWtmNPM
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This one always makes me laugh....
http://youtu.be/KvtPuWtmNPM
:rofl :aok