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Just read an article about how to cook sparrows. Seems the eat them all the time in Europe and are considered a delicacy, along with starlings. This helps to control their numbers as well. After seeing how the population of burbot went way down once the word got around that they were tasty, maybe we should have someone set up a booth at the Sportsman’s trade shows showing how to prepare and cook sparrows, starlings and why not gophers. I’ve actually tried gopher ands it’s not bad.
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Someone thought eating bats was a great idea
And now we are locked down worldwide with covid 19
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04-23-2020, 04:06 PM
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Someone thought eating bats was a great idea
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Haha!!
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04-23-2020, 04:15 PM
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They made that in a lab, and I believe it was with some of our information or material from our lab in Winnipeg.
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04-23-2020, 04:48 PM
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Gopher hunters should be dressing out the gophers they kill too.
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Don't know about you but I am NOT eating a glorified rat that carries the bubonic plague.
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04-23-2020, 05:17 PM
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Gopher hunters should be dressing out the gophers they kill too.
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Gophers sustained First Nations and Métis .... I just can’t...I’ve wanted to eat them ....the smell .... maybe is someone else cooked them!
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04-23-2020, 05:27 PM
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Yup, and Meat Eater comes to mind. Some things just shouldn't be eaten.
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Yup, and Meat Eater comes to mind. Some things just shouldn't be eaten.
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Chicken of the cave 🤷*♂️
Apparently they get meateater and anchorman 2 in Wuhan lol
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04-23-2020, 05:41 PM
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Don't know about you but I am NOT eating a glorified rat that carries the bubonic plague.
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Very rare to get that anywhere in the world now, and very treatable.
Pretty sure that Canada has never had a case, as we seem to be a little too far North for the bacteria that infects the fleas.
For anything that does carry fleas, they'll vacate a dead animal pretty quick.
Haven't tried a gopher yet, but I wonder if it would be maybe even better eating than a squirrel due to the grass fed diet? Many rodents are tasty...
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Gophers sustained First Nations and Métis .... I just can’t...I’ve wanted to eat them ....the smell .... maybe is someone else cooked them!
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The Northern tribes ate them quite a bit from what I gather. They are known as sik-sik, in some Athabaskan, or Dene dialect.
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They made that in a lab, and I believe it was with some of our information or material from our lab in Winnipeg.
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Sorry fake news.It came from a wet market,same as SARS.
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04-23-2020, 06:46 PM
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Saved a bucket of hind legs, covered them with shack-n-bake and wow they were good.
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04-23-2020, 07:39 PM
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Saved a bucket of hind legs, covered them with shack-n-bake and wow they were good.
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How many you think you ate for a meal? seems like a ton of work!
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04-23-2020, 08:10 PM
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Saved a bucket of hind legs, covered them with shack-n-bake and wow they were good.
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Cover in Montreal steak spice, 25 min at 400. Skin on to get that crispy crunch, nummers.
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I saw sparrow legs for sale in Tokyo. No kidding. Each leg was individually wrapped, looked like it had about as much meat as a small chicken wing. I didn't try it though, I was there for fugu!
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04-23-2020, 08:46 PM
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With a sharp enough exacto knife you can dress them using the gutless method.
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04-23-2020, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by TrapperMike
Just read an article about how to cook sparrows. Seems the eat them all the time in Europe and are considered a delicacy, along with starlings. This helps to control their numbers as well. After seeing how the population of burbot went way down once the word got around that they were tasty, maybe we should have someone set up a booth at the Sportsman’s trade shows showing how to prepare and cook sparrows, starlings and why not gophers. I’ve actually tried gopher ands it’s not bad.
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I shoot house sparrows that try nesting in my eves. Any native bird I will handle, but for some reason, I need a glove or something to pick up a sparrow. They somehow seem filthy to me.
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04-23-2020, 09:02 PM
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If I remember right we had about 20 legs each. Very easy to skin. Just do it like a rabbit, Split hide in middle of back then pull hide towards head and butt. Once legs are exposed cut off feet then separate where hips and back meet. Clean and cook.
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04-23-2020, 09:22 PM
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If I remember right we had about 20 legs each. Very easy to skin. Just do it like a rabbit, Split hide in middle of back then pull hide towards head and butt. Once legs are exposed cut off feet then separate where hips and back meet. Clean and cook.
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Doesnt sound too bad!
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yum
Little birds like starlings eating grains and seeds slow cooked in a roster pan in oven yum just like snipe only better meat falls off the bone , used to be a little toon kinda goes ten or twenty black birds baked in a pie the settlers ate them. A pan of little birds , polenta , chickory salad and a glass of home made wine the best.
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Gophers sustained First Nations and Métis .... I just can’t...I’ve wanted to eat them ....the smell .... maybe is someone else cooked them!
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A gopher skin coat, from the Yukon.
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Sorry fake news.It came from a wet market,same as SARS.
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There were opinions that they were both manufactured. Not put out by the average wing nut either, but by no less a respected source than the Lancet medical journal. Recently those articles have disappeared, and there is a couple months missing that outline that. Whether it is true or not; no one can definitively say. It's all opinion, but it's said now that on simulations that it would have appeared to be a poor starting point. That may be true, or we are not giving the virologists responsible for research into weaponizing these enough credit.
I now find that events surrounding the outbreak suspicious, as well as the narrative, and the desire that we not speak of the origins of it.
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A gopher skin coat, from the Yukon.
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That's pretty cool.
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Often pondered the eating quality of mature pigeons. Watching them strut around urban and demi urban areas and noted some of them as being quite fat.
Might be a few people putting them on the table as other sources of meat dwindle and come up in price.
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Often pondered the eating quality of mature pigeons. Watching them strut around urban and demi urban areas and noted some of them as being quite fat.
Might be a few people putting them on the table as other sources of meat dwindle and come up in price.
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People like their dove meat. Pigeons are doves. Wouldn’t want to try a city bird, but pigeons hanging out in barns eating grain would be good eating.
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pigeons, sure. We shot a bunch of barnyard pigeons once and cooked them up. The young ones were great, the old ones tough
Starlings, NO WAY! cats won't even eat those things. They mostly live on maggots and whatever they can dig out of a cow pie. If you shoot one, they kinda disintegrate from the inside out.
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