Thinking about penning up some possums for a couple weeks to clean them out by feeding them table scraps and fresh water. They are such scavengers eating rotten roadkill and such. I can't afford beef and pork anymore. It is getting so expensive.

My grandparents used to catch them and feed them buttermilk and scraps for a month before eating them

Go for it! I will add that if you eat crabs you already eat a scavenger, and they are delicious, just like possum and sweet potatoes!

Could also stack up some deer, I heard Iowa has a few of them.

Pick them up off the road - already aged and tenderized.

I might try to get some food stamps instead.

I'm right there with ya man. I'm trapping groundhogs. I pressure cook'em and shred the meat off the bones. You can do a lot with them. I add them to spaghetti sauce, make like creamed chicken with cream of mushroom soup and roast them with taters and carrots. Gotta do what ya gotta do.

Sounds tasty Catch

I think I'd try for fish first

We have too many critters swimming/running around that taste MUCH better than a possum, lol. Our stores still have plenty of meat if my freezer starts getting low.

Grandpa always feed them cornmeal for a week to clean them out. I would rather eat house cat.

I trapped a few of them that spent the late winter living inside of dead cow carcasses and I just have not got past that yet. A couple weeks of cleaner food does not do that for me. Muskrats yes, grinners no.

Bryce

Call the Clampetts. They know how to cook a good possum.
Granny was Possum Queen of Beverly Hills

Life’s that bad in the USA eh.

Possum is good ,the thing about them is so fatty. That is the problem with them. More fat on them then coon. trim the fat off as much you can and remove the glads you got some good eating ,Yes I eat them like coon and muskrat and beaver. If it is fix right you will not know what you are eating like anything else .

I’ll second that!!

Isn't that green goo they all have what TocoBell puts in the little cups as a side?


Mac

A neighbor of ours was telling us a story about buying piglets years ago. Got to the farm to buy the piglets, followed the farmer out into his pasture, pulled up next to a dead horse carcass. My neighbor said "where are the piglets?" Hog farmer pointed to the dead horse and said "in there. I'll give it a kick and you grab them as they come out".