Also Watch: Eating Bone Marrow. Once you have the anal glands removed, you can work the rest of the skin off easily as any other animal. Carefully inspect for any fat tissues that may conceal other scent glands.
We found some in the pits of the legs, around the neck and various other locations. These look like small light colored beans. Remove all of these or you may end up with more off flavors. In the final product, we noticed only a very minor hint of skunk smell with most of the flavor simply sweet meat. I prefer cooking as a stew since this is a lean meat.
Joel is one of the original founders of SurvivalCache. Place orange or lemon peels around the yard as a natural skunk repellent. Predator urine dogs, coyotes can be used to repel a skunk. In general, red meats beef, pork and lamb have more saturated bad fat than chicken, fish and vegetable proteins such as beans.
Saturated and trans fats can raise your blood cholesterol and make heart disease worse. The unsaturated fats in fish, such as salmon, actually have health benefits. Chicken is the best meat ever in my opinion! Nothing beats a good steak, although beef is very expensive compared to other meats.
Very flavorful. All in all, raccoon is totally edible, and I would not hesitate to eat it again. Most people rarely encounter skunks or opossums, other than as road kill. However, these nocturnal animals have been known to make their sleeping quarters under houses or in crawl spaces. On the other hand, skunks eat rats, mice, and other rodents, so at least a skunk is one answer to how to repel rats. Skunks Help Control Your Local Rattlesnake Population During warmer months, seeing a skunk in your yard or near your home means rattlesnakes will stay away.
Coyotes, foxes, dogs, bobcats, mountain lions, badgers and big owls can all eat skunks but rarely do. I made soup like chicken soup, only with raccoon and biscuits and gravy with some of the rendered stink fat. I rendered this fat — it stays pretty liquid like chicken fat, so I put it in the fridge.
But it was good when it was fresh, in a gravy. To cook the raccoon in all its fat would make it too greasy. One guy I know uses live traps to catch raccoons and then drowns the varmints in a trash can full of water. I wish starlings were tasty but they allegedly taste horrible. We have altogether too many of the little buggers around here.
I would like to try pigeon though. Jesus Christs! Shooting a trapped animal with a pellet gun or drowning it etc is disturbed. In NC you must destroy any wild animal that is trapped. It is illegal to trap and relase. I remember Laura Ingalls Wilder writing about eating blackbirds that were destroying crops.
She wrote that the whole family loved the meat. What a great post! I am fairly snobbish about what I will eat — the conventional animals mainly,but I do eat the offal at least, which most Americans seem to find gross.
I live in a fairly red neck area and I remember talking to my neighbor who mentioned he was trying to lose weight, and eating mostly fish. I said -so no raccoon huh? Please note that it is illegal to kill most birds in the US. The exceptions are the non-natives specific species include House Sparrow, European Starling, and Rock Dove — aka common pigeon and game birds hunting license required. Everything else is protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. I did a post a few years ago on eating pests , including links to old-time recipes for house sparrows and insect pests.
It a slow, painful and completely wrong way to kill an animal. Squirrel and opossum have been on that list. My dad has tried opossum and says it reminded him of pork. Snake is okay. It also has a lot bones so you have to chew carefully. Crawdads are a delicacy down here and frog legs very well should be.
Crawdads taste somewhere between lobster and shrimp. They make great gumbo but are usually boiled with lots of spices. Frog legs are mild like chicken but delicate like fish and are great fried or with butter. There was a recent episode of Nature on PBS about skunks, with various interesting tidbits of information, including a chemistry-based formula for neutralizing the smell involving peroxide, baking soda, and detergent.
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