Curing a field dressed rabbit in the summer??

[cowboy1g5]

The few rabbits we shot last week were loaded with bot fly larvae. Then again, doesn't effect the meat. Still wouldnt touch it, at least this time of the year.

[GarGuy]

That rabbit would make you very sick. It would be tender though!

[Jared L]

I'll pass!

[Z7e_-->]

Not me, I'll just have beans please!

[PondPopper]

I have never heard of this. Hanging pheasant until they rot now I have heard of that but not this rabbit trick.
I can't imagine. It had to be stinking after 36 hours!!
I guess my quesion would be why????

[curtintex]

Don't know how far the nearest convenience store is, but i bet the burritos are cheap there. I'll pass on the rotten rabbit.

[TUCO]

After cleaning the rabbits, they put the carcasses in a plastic grocery bag and hung them from the porch to "cure" "ROT".

The rabbits hung in the bag for 36 hours in 100 degree weather...

The oldest gentlemen said that's how they did it when he was a kid??

I fixed the first line for ya....

They eat a lot of rabbits in South Louisiana where I was born, and I have always been told don't eat rabbits in the summer months.

Now being a Cajun I know my fellow Coonazz's and I will eat just about anything we can catch, so if the old school Cajuns are telling me not to eat rabbit in the summer I think I will follow their advice.

The old fella probably did it that away because they didn't have a refrigerator.....I'm surprised he reached adulthood.....

[Bonesplitter]

There is nothing wrong with eating rabbits in the summer. Just check the liver for white spots anytime you kill one. That is a sign of tulermia.

[Sackett]

Any time you've eaten at a Chinese buffet, you've eaten worse

[rladner]

Any time you've eaten at a Chinese buffet, you've eaten worse

ha ha ha.


Truth be told, there are probably lots of little tricks handed down throughout the years like this. Heck, if they didn't get sick then it wasn't that bad. I know they may have iron clad stomachs, but still, if it was that rotten you'd think there'd be some illness involved. Not saying I'd try it, just that there are lots of little tricks that have been handed down over generations. This may be one of them. I for one would be studying it to learn more, but sure as heck wouldn't try it

[Dusty Britches]

I'll bet a 5 spot that old timer didn't have plastic bags back in the day.

I could see dry hanging it for 36 hours, but you'd have to do something the keep the flies off of it. And ants.