How many of you eat them on a yearly basis? Do you have to wait for the cold like with rabbits?

Usually eat a few with carrots potatoes and onions. They are better than squirrel or wild rabbit in my opinion.

pan fry like chicken

excellant eating. We catch them in March/ April in the push-ups and we eat every one we catch except for a few that we give away.

Several times during winter! . . . Fried rat, stewed tomatoes, fried taters, and cornbread . . . a feast!

Yup love em, as far as cold weather goes, dont know, always trap em after it cold

Muskrat is good eats,just check their liver for tularemia like other wild rodents.

Good to know, I love rabbit and squirrel.

There are accounts of native folks boiling them in the maple syrup vat until they get all candied and crusty. I always imagine the kids walking around holding them by the tail like a big meat lollipop!

I like marinading the hind quarters in Italian salad dressing over night, and then grill them the next evening. Delicious!

It was my supervisors daughter favorite meat. Gave Phil every carcass I trapped. ate muskrat at their house several times. And it was good

There was a trainee about 15 years ago that pulled a full roasted one out of his lunch kit, the shock on the other guys faces (and mine) was great. He said “don’t knock it till you try it. Back then I thought he was nuts…..now, not so much. I still gotta try beaver yet, my daughter said she’d try it too.

I’ve never tried it and probably won’t knowingly try it, for me it’s a mental thing.

Beaver is good.

I noticed when I have piles of carcass muskrat and beaver will be picked clean very fast by the cats. Everything else will sit there un touched for a few days tell I hall them off.

After trying beaver and discovering how good it is I was thinking muskrat was probably also good.

I don't trap beaver or muskrat unless a friend or two are having issues bur I alway save and eat the beaver and will try muskrat next time I get one

I agree with those that feel it's a mental issue.
Once you try it, it's different.
As a kid I didn't have a choice, food was food.
Learned to eat what was provided.

Muskrat is really good when prepared properly. I’ll eat it a few times each winter

They are alot cleaner animal than a pig or chicken.

Mental issue is my thing. Thankfully I have a son that has been researching some of this stuff, so I'll be trying more in the near future. I'm more than willing to cook it, and if I do ill eat it...fingers crossed!

Couple every year