Found some baby rabbits in my back yard. What should I do?

[quadbikerjosh]

You're kidding right? You shoot them and don't go eat them?? They are SUPER easy to clean and a soak overnight in salt water will kill anything bad in them (especially after you COOK them!)

God, I haven't had rabbit since I was a kid (except that one time in KY on a cave rescue course, when they served rabbit stew!) and I'm really missing it right about now. I miss hunting them with the dog.

Cottons, Jacks, they both eat good!

eh not the jackrabbits. there reallyt isnt anything to cook.

 

[BBKing]

You're kidding right? You shoot them and don't go eat them?? They are SUPER easy to clean and a soak overnight in salt water will kill anything bad in them (especially after you COOK them!)

God, I haven't had rabbit since I was a kid (except that one time in KY on a cave rescue course, when they served rabbit stew!) and I'm really missing it right about now. I miss hunting them with the dog.

Cottons, Jacks, they both eat good!

Its been forever since I had rabbit as well.

The thrill of the hunt, followed by the awesomeness of watching my dad step on their necks and pull on the hind legs (POP!) and then eating em a few days later. Maybe I'll take the .22 out with me when I'm hunting morels this year.

 

[viking73]

The bunnies we have here are all full of disease and parasites. Not something I'd eat.

 

[Cambone]

put up a sign out front:

Rabbits for sale
Meat or Pets?

There is a sign in my town that says just this. I know the guy too, he is serious.

 

[EoinMag]

put them in a cage
let them grow to be full size
then make rabbit stew

+1 to this.

 

[MeatyPortion]

Well, they've hopped off. The situation has resolved itself.

 

[mcaple1]

haha....ingredients for rabbit stew...does the homebrew mentality never end?

 

[Homercidal]

The bunnies we have here are all full of disease and parasites. Not something I'd eat.

Weird. We ate rabbit all the time when I was young. Like any wild game you have to cook them thoroughly of course. The only thing we ever noticed was fleas.

One time we hunted a few down at a friend's house because his relative from downstate had never had it. Their daughter, 15, was city born and raised and was freaking out a bit about the rabbits being hunted.

So as we're cleaning them in the barn, I was twisting the head on one and it popped off (actually made a popping sound!) and flew across the floor and landed at her feet! She took off screaming and crying for the haywagon. We could not stop laughing! I feel bad for her now, but at the time my friend made up for it by making out with her in the basement... :cross:

 

[EoinMag]

We could not stop laughing! I feel bad for her now, but at the time my friend made up for it by making out with her in the basement... :cross:

Up until now there was no phrase which would encapsulate this scenario above, we have Charlie Sheen now to thank for the phrase "Bi-winning" you win here, you win there, I believe it aptly fits this situation.

Thank you Charlie you do indeed have tiger blood and the DNA of an Adonis.

 

[Homercidal]

Yeah. And I got stuck trying to pry his large, drama-loving EMO (didn't have that term back then, but that's sort of what she was) cousin off at the same time. What a batsht crazy little chick she was. I feel sorry for her future/past boyfriends.