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Eating Raccoons and Preserving Hides

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Terri Yaki:

--- Quote from: iddee on November 22, 2024, 06:22:37 pm ---Comparing raccoon meat to possum is like comparing caviar to frog eggs,
or Bass to Carp..

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I'll gladly accept your assessment, no verification necessary. :cheesy:

iddee:
What is fun is watching your new brother-in-law eating his FIRST frog legs when the head comes out of the newspaper it is wrapped in, with entrails following. The look on his face is still vivid in my memory 65 years later.

NO, he did NOT finish the legs.

Terri Yaki:
Ewwww

The15thMember:
We haven't eaten any opossum (yet), but we did crock pot one of the raccoons and it was pretty good. 


--- Quote from: iddee on November 22, 2024, 05:21:47 pm ---Do a search for "brain tanning". Every animal has enough brains to tan it's hide.

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Is there any concern with using the brain with raccoons, given that they can carry distemper? 

iddee:
Research it. I'm not a vet, but I think distemper is so rare and so easily seen, that being struck by lightening would be more of a concern. Also. I think , to be contaminated, the sick animal's saliva must get into a wound in the recipient.

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