Deer on the highway

[DFB]

Bird, Its probably been 30 yrs now, but it seemed that most everyone around my hometown used to hunt for rabbit. Over at my cousin's place they had a beagle, his father would take him and I and "Mike" out hunting on Sat. mornings. Rabbit and polenta was the meal I remember.

DFB

 

[duckboy]

Deer are a real problem here on the Island. The hunting restrictions combined with the Disney attitude toward them will only produce more of them. The deer walk up onto my front porch to eat the flowers in planters. Don't want to put a deer fence around the house. I can see only one solution, and it will have unfortunate consequences. It will take a soccer Mom with her car filled with kids not knowing to take out the deer on the road, instead of the fir tree next to the road, or the oncoming car. It is just a matter of time. None of the politicians want to use deer killing as a platform in their campaigns, and the animal rights people seem to want to trade people for Bambi......you want deer meat for your freezer? Stop by....we'll walk out to the tractor shed and you can take your pick of deer....heck, I'll even use the 4 in 1 to haul it to the meat house for you!

 

[Bird]

DFB, I grew up hunting squirrels and rabbits; mostly cottontails, but also lots of jackrabbits and an occasional swamp rabbit. But I'd never eaten domestic rabbits until I started raising them a few years ago. In '72, while I was at Northwestern University, I noticed a packaged 3 lb. rabbit "imported from Poland" in the frozen food section of the supermarket and bought it. As many rabbits as there are in this country, I could hardly believe they would import them. Anyway, my wife fried it, I took one bite and we threw it in the garbage; don't know whether it had thawed and spoiled in shipment or what, but it tasted terrible.

And I don't recall even hearing of polenta before; had to look it up on the Internet to see what it was./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[DFB]

We have the same problems here too.

http://outdoors.mainetoday.com/hunting/011121hunting.shtml

DFB

 

[Rch]

Deer= rats with hooves; a tree farmer's perspective !

RCH

 

[Rch]

Bird, Polenta is fried mush ala italian

RCH

 

[Bird]

Yep, Rch, that sounds like a good description of the recipes I read. I like all the Italian foods I've eaten, I guess, but don't often go into Italian restaurants 'cause I can't read the menu./w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[DFB]

To me ain't nuthin worse than the deer gettin' into the vegetable garden.

Munch on the zukes, cukes, and squash plants plus eat the peas, cauliflower, and broccolli too!

DFB

 

[DFB]

Bird, yea that's all it is, cooked cornmeal.

Talkin' bout different ethnic type foods makes me remember my dear old maternal grandma.
To her Italian was a hot sausage pizza and the only Chinese food she knew to order was was chicken chow mein./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

But she could make a great toutiere. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

There you go again, DFB; made me have to look up a recipe again on the Internet to see what toutiere was. Sounds good, too./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif