Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 05:57 PM
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If you don't want to eat em, you can always use em for bait. Sorry, not much help with the worm thing though.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 06:01 PM
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They can carry tularimia. You dont want to get it from eating them. Eat only after the 1st hard frost, and months that end in ary.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 06:04 PM
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Common vernacular is. Rabbit wolves. They are large (1/2”x1/4”) flesh eating maggot that is the same critter as cattle grubs. They are the larvae of the Bott Fly.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 06:07 PM
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wild bunny myth or factWas interested in this and did quick search and found this.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 06:13 PM
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I like to go out early in the morning with an ice chest. Shoot three or four off gravel roads. Dress them and put the meat on the ice. Put the livers in a styrofoam cup and use them to catch a few channel cats. Toss them in with the rabbits for the ride home
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 07:10 PM
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You kill a rabbit that has a bott fly living under its skin you won’t have to wonder about it. It will be real obvious. It is not that the temp drop kills the larva they crawl out of the cyst they created an drop to the ground to continue their life cycle. If you find one while skinning just cut out the affected area and wash well should be good enough. Or as said earlier use for bait. Fall and winter is for hunting Spring and summer is for fishing , with a few exceptions of course.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 07:18 PM
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I had also read an article similar to that one a while back.
with gloves clean and cook fully it can be disgusting pre-hard-frost but if handled properly not any more dangerous. than in fall or winter.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
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06/22/20 07:42 PM
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I'll still err on the side of caution and eat mine in the late fall and winter. Sadly Elmer Fudd will no longer shoot any!
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
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I typically don't shoot them in the summer because it is unpleasant skinning them while covered in flies.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
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I typically don't shoot them in the summer because it is unpleasant skinning them while covered in flies. Rabbit season is closed here this time of year. But squirrel is open... A couple years back I shot one in late May. It fell out of the tree right at my feet. The blowflies were trying to tote him away before he hit the ground. I pretty much gave up warm weather hunting after that. Lol Mike
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 08:08 PM
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Yes you can eat Summer rabbits.They may have worbels,which are botfly larva.The larva are ugly but don't get in the meat and won't hurt you.Squirrels get them as well.Many don't want to eat rabbits with the bot fly larva,because,like I said,they are ugly.The stuff about frost and months with an R, have nothing to do with tuleremia-absolutely nothing.
The truth is,the frost stuff is about the bot fly and their larvae.Botfly larvae drop off the host after something like 6 weeks.After one or two frosts,there are no active botfly,so,, no new eggs get laid.Therefore,no worbeworkers.,
Tuleremia can be any time of year,is not affected by cold and also occurs in beaver and muskrats.Skin rabbits with disposable gloves and look at the liver,as soon as the cavity is open.If you see ivory colored spots all over the liver,that is tularemia.You can still cook the animal well and eat it but I choose not to.Often tuleremia is contracted through a cut or scratch but not always.It can happen through skin contact,hand to face or even airborne and it can put you in the hospital or even be fatal.I have never killed a rabbit with visual evidence of tuleremia,but if I do,that rabbit is gone,period.This also goes for muskrat and beavers.Be careful.
I have eaten Summer rabbits with worbels.I love to use the heads and hides for bait.If you don't like the looks of worbelsdon't, eat them but let's not spread any stories regarding them.Tuleremia is truly dangerous and can occur in animals that we skin by the hundreds and trappers don't even think about it,yet they worry about a worker because it looks ugly.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
[Re: Craig S.]
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06/22/20 08:40 PM
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Taxi Nailed it. I forgot about them being called worbles.
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Re: Eating wild rabbit in summer months??
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06/22/20 08:47 PM
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Yes you can eat Summer rabbits.They may have worbels,which are botfly larva.The larva are ugly but don't get in the meat and won't hurt you.Squirrels get them as well.Many don't want to eat rabbits with the bot fly larva,because,like I said,they are ugly.The stuff about frost and months with an R, have nothing to do with tuleremia-absolutely nothing.
The truth is,the frost stuff is about the bot fly and their larvae.Botfly larvae drop off the host after something like 6 weeks.After one or two frosts,there are no active botfly,so,, no new eggs get laid.Therefore,no worbeworkers.,
Tuleremia can be any time of year,is not affected by cold and also occurs in beaver and muskrats.Skin rabbits with disposable gloves and look at the liver,as soon as the cavity is open.If you see ivory colored spots all over the liver,that is tularemia.You can still cook the animal well and eat it but I choose not to.Often tuleremia is contracted through a cut or scratch but not always.It can happen through skin contact,hand to face or even airborne and it can put you in the hospital or even be fatal.I have never killed a rabbit with visual evidence of tuleremia,but if I do,that rabbit is gone,period.This also goes for muskrat and beavers.Be careful.
I have eaten Summer rabbits with worbels.I love to use the heads and hides for bait.If you don't like the looks of worbelsdon't, eat them but let's not spread any stories regarding them.Tuleremia is truly dangerous and can occur in animals that we skin by the hundreds and trappers don't even think about it,yet they worry about a worker because it looks ugly. Good write up. Thanks for the clarification. I learned something new.
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