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Offline Carl

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Re: OK to eat Cottontails?
« Reply #15 on: September 18, 2012, 11:13:24 AM »
Thanks everyone.   :tup:

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Re: OK to eat Cottontails?
« Reply #16 on: January 01, 2013, 08:51:50 PM »
Allways look at the liver to make sure it is a clean clear pink. Never eat a rabbit that has any blotches, or tumors on the liver.  I have eat wild rabbit and raised rabbits for years.   I use to hunt Friday Harbor forty years ago for rabbit. They were domestic and turned lose and took over the Island many years ago, it was so much fun.  In the summer when we hunted the Island we would sometimes have to throw away about a third of them. In the winter we never found a bad liver. If there is any question of the health of the rabbit, don't eat it.    Rabbits done right is a great meal.
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Re: OK to eat Cottontails?
« Reply #17 on: January 01, 2013, 09:01:26 PM »
Being 64 I have eaten rabbits nigh on most of my life and as far as wild rabbits go can't ever remember eating them until there was a hard frost and usually not until there was a 3+ inches of snow on the ground. Never had any problems
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Re: OK to eat Cottontails?
« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2013, 05:07:37 PM »
Ive mostly killed them in the fall/winter maybe a few in the summer but never had a problem??? I might of just gotten lucky though?
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