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[valley ranch]

That looks great!

 

[bobm]

Bee , when I was a teenager, I regularly hunted pigeons out of farmers barns with their blessing. I also had permission from a University to hunt Jack rabbits on the University grounds. I ate well and all invalved were happy with the hunting results. So, why don't you ask around to find a responsible teenager or someone else that hunts that would like to hunt on your land. Win, win !!!

 

[Nyboy]

if you can't shoot them trap them.

 

[Beekissed]

I just need to get my youngest boy out here in the fall and turn him loose in squirrel season....it just seems like one thing or another happens during that time and we never get to it, but this year I'm going to pay a dollar a squirrel just to make it fun. Then I'll pop all those squirrels into the freezer until I get a mess to can....imagine the squirrel gravy later on this winter!!! YUM

That's ONE way of getting my apple harvest....

 

[ninnymary]

I just need to get my youngest boy out here in the fall and turn him loose in squirrel season....it just seems like one thing or another happens during that time and we never get to it, but this year I'm going to pay a dollar a squirrel just to make it fun. Then I'll pop all those squirrels into the freezer until I get a mess to can....imagine the squirrel gravy later on this winter!!! YUM

That's ONE way of getting my apple harvest....

You just fell off the pedestal I had you on when you mentioned canning squirrel!

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

I thought with pest there is no season, hunted year around.

 

[Beekissed]

You just fell off the pedestal I had you on when you mentioned canning squirrel!

Mary

Squirrel harvested in the fall, after they have eaten their fair share of nuts, are a wonderful, flavorful meat! Some members of my family particularly savor the brains of the squirrel...I never went that far.

Squirrel gravy is a delicacy! Tastes a little like rabbit.

I thought with pest there is no season, hunted year around.

They tend to taste better in the fall, much like deer, after they have sweetened their meat by eating plenty of mast. I can shoot them in the summer and probably wouldn't get in any trouble at all about doing it for pest control, but then the meat goes to waste as it's not going to taste as good as when they have laid on some fat for winter and have eaten plenty of acorns and other seeds and nuts.

 

[Smart Red]

Sweet @ninnymary. You already know not all veggies and fruits come from the grocery store, well, not all meats do either. Listen to Beekissed well. She isn't suggesting killing for fun or sport, or even for getting rid of serious pests, she is carefully considering how to eliminate the pests without wasting God's gifts.

She moves up one level on my pedestal for that.

 

[ninnymary]

Smart Red, I listened well to Beekissed and know what she said. I never implied that she was killing for fun or sport.

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

I wonder if price has a lot to do with what people are willing to eat. The more money, more people want to try it. $50 for ostrich steak at fancy restaurant delicacy, free squirrel no way.