Re: Summer beaver meat taste test ?
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A fella should fatten a few up on corn and see how they are.
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Re: Summer beaver meat taste test ?
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First off, I don't know....I never harvest beaver off season. But in general, animals that graze take on the flavors of their feed. My dad speaks of having fed hogs carp that they speared in the flooded fields and tasting of fish. I think summer beaver feeding on succulents, roots and such probably taste alright.
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Re: Summer beaver meat taste test ?
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Jp you have harvested beaver in the summer months what did they taste like ?
It is a cultural sensitive question, so JP with your Metis heritage what do they taste like. Does the Metis traditional harvest beaver in the summer for food ? I have no idea what a spring, summer, fall, or winter beaver tastes like. I’ve trapped tons of beavers during the summer. RM’s need beavers trapped no matter what season it is.
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Re: Summer beaver meat taste test ?
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I have eaten 2 beaver so far. One was caught in Feb, another in May. Flavor was similar in both. Beaver here eat a good amount of soybeans and corn IF they live near a farm. Suburban beaver just cut whatever trees they can get. I found the flavor very similar to stewing beef.
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Re: Summer beaver meat taste test ?
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I have raised this question because of my studies in archaeological sites and considerable beaver bones are always in the fire hearths. and it goes on to what a site was seasonal or not. There is always a considerable vast knowledge on this Tman site across a broad expanse. So more input would be welcomed.
I know there is a photo of a beaver being cooked open over a fire from an area just north of Boco. Sorry Mole this is not a pig castration thread, JP does have a habit of derailing threads. I know the FN in western Canada ate beaver throughout the year. This is something a lot of scientists that have been studying the paleo diet miss entirely. They think the interior FN people ate a very low fat diet because wild game meat is lean. This of course is not the whole story because moose and caribou have a lot of fat at different times of the year, and even leaner animals will have fat in the body cavity. Beaver was a very important food source because they are always fat, and easy to harvest. In northern BC and up here in Yukon, you will almost always find old camps in areas with good beaver populations. When I was growing up in northern BC, the Cree always had beaver meat.
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Re: Summer beaver meat taste test ?
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Can't imagine a taste difference unless the summer stuff sat in the trap dead too long..... You might be right and here is something I take as a sign. I was raised hearing how only cold water / north atlantic this or that fish was worth eating. First time I ate some shrimp and flounder out of the warm gulf I knew I had been lied to all those years.
The little hogs I harvest in the summer months eat just as good as the ones taken in the cold- I just gotta process them a lot quicker is all
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Re: Summer beaver meat taste test ?
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bfisch I know that in the paper that Conibear wrote about his NWT winter trip that they opened houses and sat back to shoot them. This was in the Canadian Hunting Trapping Magazine 1920 era. I think this was sent down to Bob Whites trap June rondy and maybe Cohunt has it now
Also remember that the pelts were used for winter sleeping blankets and only became valuable after the guard hairs were worn off. Because of the felt being easier to process to hats.
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