I shot a crow today and.....

Well if game tastes like what it's feeding on, and crows eat the arse hole out of a dead skunk on the highway....

Think I'll let someone with a stomach of steel try it first.
 
captonion said:
My guess would be yes.Pretty sure all birds have em.
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Maybe what I meant to ask was do they have a crop? Not all birds have a crop. Ducks, geese, most upland game with the exception of Sage Grouse have them. Robins do not and I do not think gulls do.
 
For the record, I tried muskrat once but it stunk the whole house up while cooking it, but was committed to trying it.
After all, I trapped so many of them, I had to try something, hopefully finding a way to not waste the meat.

They smelled and tasted even worst on the plate than you could imagine.

I'll never try that again....:D
 
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Covey Ridge said:
Maybe what I meant to ask was do they have a crop? Not all birds have a crop. Ducks, geese, most upland game with the exception of Sage Grouse have them. Robins do not and I do not think gulls do.
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I didn't look for one. I just cut the breast meat off. It's too much work to get anything else.

I didn't figure anyone would complain about me wasting crow meat. ;)
 
Several years ago, in one of our northern mining communities, there was a story in the local paper about a guy with a freezer full of cleaned ravens. Seems he was trapping them on his balcony. He said he eats them all the time. he didn't know they are a protected species here.
 
7mmlefty said:
For the record, I tried muskrat once but it stunk the whole house up while cooking it, but was committed to trying it.
After all, I trapped so many of them, I had to try something, hopefully finding a way to not waste the meat.

They smelled and tasted even worst on the plate than you could imagine.

I'll never try that again....:D
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You have to boil them first to get rid of the fat and then roast them. This will get rid of the bad smell and taste and then they are really sweet and tender.
Beavers are the same process and flavor.

P.S. Boil them out side.
Regards
 
TheCoachZed said:
Exactly. I grew up on a farm in the sticks (wasn't our farm, we lived in the farmhouse though). The beef and dairy cattle wallowing in the filthy barnyard were a heck of a lot nastier with their two-pound dingleberries than the pigeons in the rafters eating from the same feed trough, but if you gave a person a choice, they'd eat the beef, saying it was "cleaner."

And chickens are worse. I had a lot of neighbours who raised them, and they are absolutely filthy. I'd ten times rather raise hogs than chickens. They're nasty. I can only imagine what the factory farms look like.
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The bad ones are pretty bad...I try to avoid factory chicken as much as I can. At home I only eat free range or chickens from the farm.
 
Given the chance, a Chicken, or Turkey will eat damned near anything. So will a bear. Even cows will eat some awful stuff. (Like afterbirth for example)
I've never tried crow, but I'm thinking it's diet will have no effect on it's taste.
 
Crow is likely better tasting than a lot of the ducks guys shoot... the duck hunter's that still do eat the things that is. Never tried sea duck, ganzers, whistler, etc... Could only imagine what goes down their gullets!
 
Even cows will eat some awful stuff. (Like afterbirth for example)
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That is not because cows like the taste of afterbirth or that they are hungry. It is a left over primative instinct to remove it so that its scent will not attract predators to the new born calf. Many mammals do that:D

I live in ranch country. Maybe next time I see one giving birth, I'll sneak in and get a chunk of placenta for the fry pan? About as gross as eating deep fried skunk rectums:D
 
M12shooter said:
Crow is likely better tasting than a lot of the ducks guys shoot... the duck hunter's that still do eat the things that is. Never tried sea duck, ganzers, whistler, etc... Could only imagine what goes down their gullets!
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In southern Alberta, I never care for the taste of diving duck, with the exception of canvasbacks. Actually the early local puddle ducks do not taste much better. It takes a few weeks after the crops get off the fields that they are worth the shot it takes to kill them. Teal are the exception. In my area a lot of local ducks roost on a DU project that is filled by effluent from a big slaughter house:puke:
 
The west SJ sewage treatment pond is usually loaded with Canada geese,blacks,and mallards.....that is until they get up and fly to the river or nearby salt marshes where they are shot and eaten by hunters.
 
grinrgrn said:
The west SJ sewage treatment pond is usually loaded with Canada geese,blacks,and mallards.....that is until they get up and fly to the river or nearby salt marshes where they are shot and eaten by hunters.
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That gives an all new literal meaning to ####ty taste:puke:
 
grinrgrn said:
The west SJ sewage treatment pond is usually loaded with Canada geese,blacks,and mallards.....that is until they get up and fly to the river or nearby salt marshes where they are shot and eaten by hunters.
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I know! I'm tempted to licence up and hunt for some of those rare Canadas you find in Musquash, but I'm leery that they came straight from the lagoon, since that's the only place around here I see them usually.

I saw a lone Canada down on the beach in Little Lepreau a couple times in the last week, but the season ends Saturday.....not much point in getting the licence just to shoot him.
 
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