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Post by Mari-in-IN on Dec 9, 2018 21:53:43 GMT
I made this little clip for my brother and texted it to him... Thought I'd share here as well. Such fun...
Geez oh pete - it's always something around here!
~Mari
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Post by Woodpecker on Dec 10, 2018 1:26:54 GMT
Don’t possums eat chicken & eggs? I hope yours are okay, not the possum 😉
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Dec 11, 2018 1:19:45 GMT
Don’t possums eat chicken & eggs? I hope yours are okay, not the possum 😉 Everyone is ok - the chickens that is... And the little possum... I've been raising chickens for over 9 years and this is the first time I have ever seen a possum in a coop. I think he was hungry as evidenced by the chicken feed on his snoot... I think the worst threat in regards to a possum and chickens is if the possum gets in the coop after the chickens have gone to roost. I lock all of mine up overnight so no chance of a possum or God forbid a coon getting in after they have gone to roost. I'll just have to see how this pans out. I hate the thought of rehoming the little bugger... ETA -- Actually -- this is the first possum in the 16 years that we have lived here that we regularly see it wandering out and about during the day. Obviously we have had numerous coons and possums come out in numbers after dusk. I wonder why this little bugger is different?? ~Mari |
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 21, 2018 15:08:08 GMT
Directions:
Soak possum in cold salt water for 10 hours.
Rinse meat in cold water and refrigerate 2-4 hours.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Prepare stuffing according to package directions.
Stuff possum cavity with prepared packaged stuffing.
Close cavity tightly.
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Post by 1shotwade on Dec 22, 2018 10:22:36 GMT
Let me guess. Eat stuffing, throw possum away?
Wade
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Post by paquebot on Dec 22, 2018 19:41:22 GMT
I once roasted a big possum and took it to work. Told everyone that it was coon and they loved it. Never did tell them the truth! White folk ain't supposed to like it, Black folk don't tell them any different.
Martin
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Post by bluemingidiot on Dec 22, 2018 20:15:55 GMT
Had a friend who pulled over on the side of a road to check a low tire. He saw a fresh road kill deer. He load it up, took it home, and butchered it. The next morning he chicken fried some back strap and took it to work. Every body loved it. They assumed he shot it and asked how and where it happened. He told them he found it beside the road. Some laughed so hard they had tears in their eyes. They told him he was the best cook and story teller that ever worked there.
There's really not much point in telling people the truth. They are going to believe what they want to believe.
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Post by 1shotwade on Dec 22, 2018 22:32:47 GMT
People these days are very over cautious about wild game care. Actually any food. It would shock most people to find out just how hard it is to spoil meat! many, many things that the guberment has cautioned the public about just doesn't hold water. But, then again, don't drink the water in Mexico!
Wade
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Dec 26, 2018 1:46:30 GMT
Youse guys...  |
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Post by paquebot on Dec 26, 2018 5:35:04 GMT
Youse guys... A man's gotta eat! Dan'l Boone didn't starve none. Granny Clampett's possum stew kept Jethro Bodine in a fine fiddle. Martin |
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Post by ceresone on Dec 28, 2018 22:31:32 GMT
There is a conservation book on preparing wild game in Missouri.
For skunk, you bury for 2 days, then prepare as any other game. Not that I would do it, but evidentially some did, as directions was in the book
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Post by Skandi on Dec 28, 2018 22:41:41 GMT
I'll take roadkill deer if it's warm or in rigor won't touch it otherwise, I loath "high" meat, bought venison and this horrible fashion for 21 days+ aged beef YUCK it tastes rotten to me. Last one I got I only just got to in time, I was driving round the back roads round Aberdeen airport after dropping someone off and came across a roedoe in the middle of the road, got it half way into the boot and someone else stopped and asked if I had hit it, Nope not me But I am taking it! (it's illegal in the UK to pick up something you hit and kill, but not for another person to take it) Here in Denmark you can pick your own kill, but I've never hit one always managed to stop intime.
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Post by 1shotwade on Dec 28, 2018 22:59:55 GMT
Meat stays good a lot longer than people think. A roadkill at 50* daytime high will be good for a couple or three days provided the nighttime temps get down to or near freezing. If you think about it, take the backstraps, and all four quarters and you haven't gotten even close to the cavity where all spoilage actually comes from. Even if you get it home and it begins to smell, just wash it off in cold water then soak it in vinegar. Having it submerged in vinegar will take all the smell and the bacteria out of the meat cause it is all on the surface.
And yes, I know what the government says. I also know what real life works and what doesn't.
Wade
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Post by paquebot on Dec 29, 2018 5:27:37 GMT
During my coon-hunting days, came home with a lot of roadkill deer. Had some long drives and there would not be a deer laying by the road on the way down but there on the way back. Guaranteed to be fresh. In Wisconsin, if you hit it you have first choice at it. Since it would not be until 2AM or later, most deer were hit after bar time. Driver may not be in any shape to call the authorities to report it. No choice but to leave it and maybe hope that it's still there in the morning when they are sober. Never got a bad one that way.
Martin
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