12/23/2005 3:05:06 AM Pacific Standard Time, tahir@xxxxxxxxxx.net writes:
Bettina Broadway-Mann wrote:
I go rabbiting with ferrets every other weekend through the winter, catch
just enough for me and the ferrets to eat (freezing some as well) and then
sit
down to a rabbit stew / pie / curry / etc happy in the knowledge that the
meat is organic, free range and humanly dispatched. As well as getting
outside
and having exercise on clear frosty mornings. Fantastic.
Thats one of the reasons I'm not keen on stock proof fencing, I want to
be harvesting rabbit regularly.
Well-said all of you - from SC's observations about hunting over here to you
guys' UK huntiing notes!
I "grew-up" in the 50's-60's, as Scott described, hunting to supplement the
table in the back woods of Minnesota (or "out in the sticks" as my
"city-slicker cousins" called it) - - not only venison, rabbit, and squirrel
- but also
porcupine, skunk, and muskrat - as well as the birds like phesant,
partridge, and duck. Believe me there is a reverence for ANYTHING one takes
- and it
is used/eaten - so by my "backwoods family" yet today, though I' ve moved to
"civilized" California . . . . a far cry from the initialization of this
"Deer protection" thread - - but everybody from Calif. to Mn. and UK blends
into
it.
I bet every rabbit stew is as different as every lasagna! But, gosh, I miss
Mom's rabbit stew! I bet yours is great, too, Bettina :-)
Merry Christmas to all! ! !
Ray Morneau
San Francisco Bay Area (now)
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