Love cottontails. Lightly floured and pan fried in butter is my favorite. May have to shoot a couple this weekend now that I'm thinking about fried bunny!
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Well the bay aint no cooler in September than August..Originally posted by Burnadell View PostI’m pretty sure they are getting mixed up with orsters!
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Ok do have none of y'all ever heard of rabbit fever? That is the real reason they say wait until after a freeze.
Tuleremia is the is the issue. It's a bacteria transmitted by ticks most often. The theory was rabbits with lots of ticks tend to die off after freeze cause they are weaker from the infection. They are already sick and harsh weather kills of the sick ones
I've heard intestinal parasites as well, and if you don't believe worm loads are worse in warm wet weather then you haven't raised many animals...
tularemia info
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I used to hunt em as a kid and eat them. Great Grandmother also raised them to sell for Food, not pets, and we always had rabbit visiting her farm. I hunted in the summer during a drought near Seadrift area. I was a kid but did everything alone. Cleaning them there were many big worms under the skin. Lots of worms in their gut (tapeworms). I killed several that day. I was maybe 14 years old. Trashed em all. Never ate another wild rabbit. I will try almost anything. If I needed food would not hesitate. Wild was more tender than the raised ones? Always fried. Yes, taste great! Never tried a Jack.Comment
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Its just easier than saying months with and R except September. Some folks gotta figure that out for themselvesOriginally posted by Dale Moser View Post
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Don't eat a jack if it has over 100,000 miles on it . . I chewed on a fried Jack one time that was so tough I spit it out and my dog chewed on it and then he spit it out . . Dammit . .Originally posted by gatt40 View Post
It just means more . . much more . .Comment
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Originally posted by shea.mcphail View PostI just finished the podcast. It was very interesting, and I recommend it. After listening to the doctor, contracting Tularemia from rabbits has nothing to do with the time of year. Rabbits do contract it from ticks, but they can have it any time of year so the "R" month or First Freeze has no merit.Originally posted by TxAg View PostComment
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Bot Fly's won't bother it either, just remove them! Great white meat fried!Comment
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Fried rabbit, homemade biscuits, ribbon cane syrup. My granny could flat cook that stuff when I stayed with her.
Some of my best memories. 10-12 years old. Single shot H&R 20 gauge. Head lamp. It was on! Then squirrel hunting the next morning.Comment
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I think it might be OK to admit that, in this case, the old timers are wrong. lolComment
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What about the nasal bots? Maybe not exactly the same thing but pretty similar. Ever since MeatEater got me to start saving tongues, I haven’t cut into a deer yet that didn’t have them. Back in October I picked a half-dozen out of a doe, ran out to the pond with my fishing gear and caught three catfish with them.Originally posted by gfulton View PostComment
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parasites
Back up north we called them warbles! We always waited till the first good freeze to hunt them also.Originally posted by Freer View PostComment
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didn't know anyone ate jack rabbits ... eeuuuww.Comment
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Originally posted by tdwinklr View Post
Cmon Alice. Did you really say “euuuuw”?
Hope you don’t eat fast food. [emoji6][emoji51]
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Yall, I just cooked 2 jack rabbits with onion, celery, carrots, and red wine. It is amazing! Definitely gonna have to make it again and take pics of the process.
I got the recipe from Meat Eater. https://www.themeateater.com/cook/re...guignon-recipe
I cooked it in the crock pot on low for 10 hours.Comment
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