'Egg Armageddon': Mass. voters passed animal welfare law

[Tall Timbers]

The only problem with caribou is that they tend to carry mad cow disease. So, be careful about ground meat from that source because a clueless processor could include the brain and/or spinal cord in the ground meat.

Not in Alaska's wild herds. Not yet, anyway.

 

[Wings Like Eagles]

Not in Alaska's wild herds. Not yet, anyway.

Good to hear. There are many natives who rely on the caribou and elk for meat protein. My understanding is that elk is similarly afflicted with mad cow disease, in some areas. Have you ever tried elk?

 

[Eastxn]

Y'all need to come to Texas and try some wild hog. Really good stuff.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Good to hear. There are many natives who rely on the caribou and elk for meat protein. My understanding is that elk is similarly afflicted with mad cow disease, in some areas. Have you ever tried elk?

I've had deer. I may have been served up some elk a time or two but don't really know.

 

[Tall Timbers]

Y'all need to come to Texas and try some wild hog. Really good stuff.

I'd like to try wild hog. I'm sure it would make for an excellent pig pickin.

 

[Wings Like Eagles]

Y'all need to come to Texas and try some wild hog. Really good stuff.

I didn't know that they are good to eat. We are currently seeing an invasion of wild pigs (they were brought over from England by the early settlers) in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Some small herds have even been spotted in Ontario and the Provinces need to quickly do something about them as they are absolutely destroying crops. They even making a mess of farmland, because of their rooting habits. I've been told that the hogs are really mean too. So far, only a few dogs have been harmed but I would hate to see humans endangered by them. They have 10 to 12 piglets per litter and the herds are growing rapidly. Something will need to be done. Maybe we need to invite some of you Texans up here to help with the problem.

 

[Bethlehem57]

@Musician 4 Jesus can open a new business potty-training all those chickens
. . . probably easier than cows and goats

Plus lots of fertilizer for modern-day Victory Gardens

For all my sisters and brothers that DIY and want to use chicken for gardens, it has to age or it will burn your veggies and flowers.

 

[Wings Like Eagles]

For all my sisters and brothers that DIY and want to use chicken for gardens, it has to age or it will burn your veggies and flowers.

Yes, chicken manure is VERY high in nitrogen in addition to being acidic. Mixing it with lawn and shrub clippings, bedding straw, leaf mulch or sawdust and lime. The safest form is calcium carbonate, but it can be purchased cheaply as the very caustic calcium hydroxide/oxide. It is available at farm stores. It will help tone it down AND of course, letting the manure compost is very important. Throwing in crushed egg shells that have been soaked in apple cider vinegar (with the "mother" of vinegar in it) is beneficial as well (adds important beneficial soil bacteria and aids composting). If you have alkaline soil, that is beneficial to add as well. Turning it over frequently aerates it and keeps it from going anaerobic.

 

[Work4Peanuts]

I didn't know that they are good to eat. We are currently seeing an invasion of wild pigs (they were brought over from England by the early settlers) in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Some small herds have even been spotted in Ontario and the Provinces need to quickly do something about them as they are absolutely destroying crops. They even making a mess of farmland, because of their rooting habits. I've been told that the hogs are really mean too. So far, only a few dogs have been harmed but I would hate to see humans endangered by them. They have 10 to 12 piglets per litter and the herds are growing rapidly. Something will need to be done. Maybe we need to invite some of you Texans up here to help with the problem.

They're considered an invasive species down here, and there is no limit or season for hunting them (I don't know about Texas, but I'd be surprised if it was much different there). If you see 'em, you can shoot 'em. They do a lot of damage. I'm told by one of the guys I know that hunts, that they are particularly nasty to clean up because of the parasites on them.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I've eaten wild rabbit before but it is very, very lean and gamey--must be stewed to be palatable. I've never eaten domestic rabbit. When the U.S. government killed off the buffalo herds, the native-Americans were forced to eat wild rabbit and they experienced "rabbit starvation" because of the lack of fat. Pemmican was a survival food for them and it consisted of buffalo tallow (the fat packed around the kidneys of the animal), dried pulverized meat and typically, dried berries or sometimes another kind of dried plant food. It is difficult to survive without enough fat in the diet. But next to mother's milk, eggs are the most perfect food.

Rabbit can be used in place of veal

Charc rabbit is good, too, but the fire must be hot and the cooking quick or it'll get tough. Bunny-kabobs

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I have to disagree with you. While I thoroughly enjoy eggs, I believe that bacon cheeseburgers are the most perfect food after mother's milk.

With lots of burnt ONIONS, preferably on a pumpernickel bun

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Good to hear. There are many natives who rely on the caribou and elk for meat protein. My understanding is that elk is similarly afflicted with mad cow disease, in some areas. Have you ever tried elk?

MC has been found in elk in both Minnesota and Missouri

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

The very best of the wild meat is moose, IMO. Mooseburgers are great! Getting harder and harder to find moose meat. This area used to be full of moose. We had a female calf wandering around grazing in our subdivision about ten years ago. The Ministry of Natural Resources says that their numbers have dwindled even though they have cut back the number of moose-hunting days.

Moose is endangered in Minnesota, although the Feds refuse to recognize this
https://focusingonwildlife.com/news...ot-be-listed-as-federally-endangered-species/

Moose is one of 8 critical habitats that can be helped with extra donation when purchasing license plates here
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/features/plates/index.html
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/mammals/moose.html

More money has been raised for critical habitats via the critical habitat plates than can be legally spent because of a matching funds requirement
https://northernwilds.com/dnr-changing-rules-for-habitat-plate-spending/
Unfortunately, this means the vultures are circling