Eating Alberta wild rabbit
 

Can you eat wild rabbit in Alberta?

Yes, why not?

Yes, they taste great. That being said standard rules apply, if the there are spots on the liver discard the animal immediately, this is a sign of Tularemia.

Yup, ya sure can. As the above post states check that liver everytime.
Tastes great mixed into chunky soup.

Rabbit sausages are also delicious.

rabbit pot pie mmmm

Mmmmmmmm fresh bunnies rates up there with ruffed grouse!!

Anyone willing to admit they ate the 'wild' rabbits in city limits? You know the ones that are always runnnig around the houses and back alleys.

most city rabbits are jacks tough meat . i heard you boil jack with a rock when rabbit done throw out the jack and eat the rock

I have ate a few snowshoe hares and they were not very tasty. I use to eat cottontails on the coast, they were very good. Woundnt mind hearing a recipe for snowshoe and i will give them another go.

Calling Dr Speckle, Dr Speckle you have a thread calling lol

lmfao!

I ate one this winter and thought it was delicious! Cubed it up In a stew. Yum yum! Here's to hoping my dog catches another in her dog house.

Couldn't agree more!!! Cooked up many a bunny, except that Easter one, that ones a no go I was told....:)

Yes you can! it taste so good

Any good recipes? Favourite ways to prepare rabbit?

Rabbit stew, oven baked are all good.
My favorite is spit roasting one over an open fire after a day hunting/hiking/camping whatever. :acigar:

I love Rabbit stew a lots

where are the rabbit areas nowadays? I haven't seen one in the bush for a very long time.

Anywhere around Edmonton

mmmm-all those meat hardening chemicals

Where I live near downtown Calgary, most of the bunnies aren't even truly wild, they're feral pet bunnies of all colours.

Yeah, most of those are the result of misguided Easter gifts to little kids. They are domestic rabbits gone feral...likely taste OK. You may want to use a reduced recoil load in your 12ga on Princes Island so the residents in the high $$$ condos don't get too upset with the noise...
:)

They often let you get so close that I could hunt with a knife if I knew how to throw one. Maybe a strong slingshot...

Brown in pan, then slowcook in the oven covered in cream sauce or mushroom soup... Eat when fork tender.

Oh my god I want some now....

my 8 yr old son wants to snare a jack that comes by our house .. wants it for supper

children are awesome

One tough cookie you have got growing up! My 20 years old girl didn't talk to me for a month after she found out that I actually killed a bunny long time ago...:bad_boys_20:

:D Rabbits are very lean...one can essentally stave to death on a diet of just wild rabbit unless other body parts are eaten...and they are a little "stringy" for some peoples likeing...so the perfect fix...

Take 4 bunnys...
two boned porked chops...or half package of bacon...

Grind into burger and season to taste...most awesome "Bunny Burgers" or burger you ever tasted....ohhhhhhhuggg *drool* lol

Neil

my son has been hunting with me since he was four he is hardcore outdoorsmen wants to hunt ever single day during the season drives me nuts somedays lol