Posted on 02/11/2018 8:28:42 AM PST by EdnaMode
What’s a few more rats in CA?
These are Nutria. You can eat them (I have). They taste like a combination of pork and chicken. Very tasty!
Nutria were brought in by aliens from Brazil. The have destroyed millions of acres of habitat in Louisianan and South east Texas.. California has real problems . They breed like flies. The best way to kill them is to shoot them in their holes , Poison will not work. They only eat roots and vegetation. They are just giant rats. Look like liberals.
I would love to have a pet Capybara.
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“Louisiana is full of them.”
In Tidewater (VA), someone sent out a sheet of recipes for the critters burrowing into Back Bay, the buffer between the fresh water swamps and the Atlantic Ocean.
It’s still a rat no matter how big. My SO, a good country boy, compares it to squirrel. He said just cover anything in gravy and you can eat it over biscuits.
Westley: Rodents Of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
Tell the Chinese they taste like chicken and the problem is solved.
Growing up as a backwoods redneck in Pennsyltucky, I’ve eaten most of the wild animals. For years I ran a trapline, and it was amazing at all the things that find their way into your traps, including geese, ducks, fish, ......... (and occasionally the neighbor’s cats)
I would place a piece of field corn on the cob on the prongs of a conibear trap and catch geese.. All dark meat..
The only part of eating wild game I didn’t care for was spitting out the lead shot!
Groundhogs, squirrels, raccoons,and muskrats, were best prepared smoked. An old refrigerator with metal racks made an excellent smoker.
Never ate skunk, fox, mink, weasel ........
Just for the heck of it, I Googled muskrat recipes and this popped up. Too funny:
Can you eat a beaver?
Taking care of a beaver you’re planning to eat is important as it is with most game, to ensure the quality of the meat. Beaver are mainly caught in or near the water and are pretty much clean to begin with. Skinning them and the way you do it is important to have good tasting meat.
“I have been importing ours there. /sarcasm 8>)”
Well, exporting.
Thank you. I didn’t want to go to the link.
Nutria are a problem in Maryland wetlands, as well.
“Endangered species” have to be native to the area”
Wild burros are endangered and they are not Native to the area. Praying mantises are protected and they were brought from South America. There’s a host of other animals that have been brought here and somehow are considered endangered or have become protected.
I had this same argument with an environmental law professor during an environmental law class that I was taking when I was a Contracting Technical Representative. I brought it up once, I bought it up twice and finally my friend Jerry said “look we want to get out of here at 4 I know it as ridiculous as this professor sounds It’s not going to change. So shut up and we can all get out of here in a timely manner and have supper.”
That was my education on the subject and it was also a demonstration by the professor of how stupid laws are made and defended tooth-and-nail.
It’s ok. It’s a sanctuary state.
VERY interesting-—expecially the praying mantis info. :-)
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I was thinking of the .410 shotgun. Perfect for large rodents.
FL and S GA are lousy with Nutria. They make a great fur coat. They are delicious to eat also.
destroying roads, leveees and such? They got 200 plus pounders in Sacramento and the state legislature doing that too..
Not in Idaho. A couple of years ago Canadian Wolves were introduced into Idaho to replace the depleted number of "Endangered Gray Wolves". The new wolf population has increased at an alarming rate, depleting deer and elk herds dramatically. Hunting them is now legal and tags are only $11.
P.S. They are not good eating, no matter how you fix them.
Nutria are everywhere. No big thing. However, if CA is worried about their infrastructure, illegals put much more strain on it.
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