Dead foxes!

[User00025]

Hmm ! a bit after my time I'm afraid. I remember a Col Batten, he farmed up by Sutton Bingham.
I did all my 'wandering around' during the fifties, left Coker in '60 but visited, friends, relatives and the Cemetery, on and off up until '82.
Interestingly, I kept my UK FC live during my absence using my Coker address.
Whenever I visited I used to touch base with the local bobby and he kept me up to date on what was going on around the villages.
One in particular didn't like/couldn't ride his bike up Lodge Hill so asked me to have a look as there was a report of dogs worrying sheep and thought I might know who owned them !!
Yes those were the days.

They were indeed the days, I started keepering after
Doing a lot of "Wandering" in foreign and not so far away parts. I kept in touch with my old Head keeper and his widow up until their demise. Had a look round a month ago when heading for Exmoor, all looking not so good now, disappointed so won't go back again.

 

[landkeeper]

They were indeed the days, I started keepering after
Doing a lot of "Wandering" in foreign and not so far away parts. I kept in touch with my old Head keeper and his widow up until their demise. Had a look round a month ago when heading for Exmoor, all looking not so good now, disappointed so won't go back again.

i too have found revisiting places you have fond memories of is dissapointing i used to work on a 2000acre place that hadn't been plowed or fertilised it was full of orchids and meadows of wild flowers crickets and grasshoppers everywhere , i went back a few years ago it was just like everywhere else , hedges pulled out, fields 10x the size they were and just a grass and cereal prairie

 

[ruger54]

We put ours on the horse manure heap they soon rot down if another fox does not drag them off for lunch

 

[John Gryphon]

I have on many occasions thrown down the challenge to those who claim badger is tasty, I will cook it in any shape or form you like and you prove to me its even OK by eating it!! I have tried it, Boiled, Fried, Roasted, made into hams, etc, not one piece was edible as we know it. Ive never managed to get anyone to eat it beyond one mouthful.

To cook one badger you’ll need:

1 badger
1 glass of pig’s blood
1 small glass of armagnac
1 ginger root
1 bottle of dry, sparkling white wine
2 eggs
1 pot of crème fraîche
salt and pepper
500g forest mushrooms OR chestnuts to accompany
100g butter
oil

Eviscerate and skin your badger, and soak it in a fast-flowing river for at least 48 hours. This will help you to de-grease it more easily.

Once the badger is de-greased, cut it into pieces and brown it in a frying pan with butter. When the pieces are golden and stiff, flambée with the Armagnac, season and add a grated soup-spoon of ginger, fresh if possible.

Pour over the wine, and simmer gently for at least two hours.

At the end of the cooking time, mix the chopped badger liver (cooked beforehand in a little oil), the glass of blood, two egg yolks, a coffee-spoon of ginger and the crème fraîche, and pour into the cooking dish. Serve immediately.

This dish goes well with wild mushrooms or chestnuts.

 

[John Gryphon]

ethical, nutritious and free

 

[Lace1978]

I'd rather bite my own bell end off than eat any part of a fox !!
Hedge bottom all day long

 

[Highlandsjohn]

To cook one badger you’ll need:

1 badger
1 glass of pig’s blood
1 small glass of armagnac
1 ginger root
1 bottle of dry, sparkling white wine
2 eggs
1 pot of crème fraîche
salt and pepper
500g forest mushrooms OR chestnuts to accompany
100g butter
oil

Eviscerate and skin your badger, and soak it in a fast-flowing river for at least 48 hours. This will help you to de-grease it more easily.

Once the badger is de-greased, cut it into pieces and brown it in a frying pan with butter. When the pieces are golden and stiff, flambée with the Armagnac, season and add a grated soup-spoon of ginger, fresh if possible.

Pour over the wine, and simmer gently for at least two hours.

At the end of the cooking time, mix the chopped badger liver (cooked beforehand in a little oil), the glass of blood, two egg yolks, a coffee-spoon of ginger and the crème fraîche, and pour into the cooking dish. Serve immediately.

This dish goes well with wild mushrooms or chestnuts.

John, My old dog's jobbies would almost taste palatable added to that recipe. In fact my pup sometimes has a go at them fresh,I am with levigsp on this one..

 

[VSS]

I'd rather bite my own bell end off than eat any part of a fox !!
Hedge bottom all day long

If you were enough of a contortionist to get your head down that far I don't think it's biting you'd be doing

 

[shakey jake]

how little food would be left in the fridge and cupboards before badger or fox was considered, be a lean house for me

 

[TomT3]

I'd rather bite my own bell end off than eat any part of a fox !!
Hedge bottom all day long

ME TO!!

 

[potshotpat]

ME TO!!

Ask him and he might let you.

 

[Colonel]

I had a real problem one summer with flys, it turned out to be the local keeper was shooting fox and leaving them in a ditch. I asked the keeper to dispose of them better and the fly problem stopped.

 

[AGR]

A very old butcher friend of mine told me that Sunday mornings were for badger digging, not church, and the hams were cured and sold through the shop. He said it was just like pork. Another friend with French relatives had to take a road kill fox for lunch! Takes all sorts!

 

[The hunting Finn]

A very old butcher friend of mine told me that Sunday mornings were for badger digging, not church, and the hams were cured and sold through the shop. He said it was just like pork. Another friend with French relatives had to take a road kill fox for lunch! Takes all sorts!

Like pork?? I have only tasted badger once - as smoked. The meat was dark as most of the game meat is (not like pork at all) and had a quite strong taste of game. It wasn´t bad, but I have tasted better meat. I would eat badger again, as long as I wouldn´t have to prepare it myself. I have skinned some badgers and foxes (for the fur) and the smell during the process is something that doesn´t make me think of food!

This is a bit off topic, but is it common that you don´t eat brown hare? I met two hunters in Uk which used to shoot rabbits and eat them, but they had never tasted brown hare although they have a lot of them around. I have never tasted rabbit (we don´t have them here), but you would imagine that they taste about the same and I really like the taste of hares.

 

[AGR]

Like pork?? I have only tasted badger once - as smoked. The meat was dark as most of the game meat is (not like pork at all) and had a quite strong taste of game. It wasn´t bad, but I have tasted better meat. I would eat badger again, as long as I wouldn´t have to prepare it myself. I have skinned some badgers and foxes (for the fur) and the smell during the process is something that doesn´t make me think of food!

This is a bit off topic, but is it common that you don´t eat brown hare? I met two hunters in Uk which used to shoot rabbits and eat them, but they had never tasted brown hare although they have a lot of them around. I have never tasted rabbit (we don´t have them here), but you would imagine that they taste about the same and I really like the taste of hares.

Not many eat hares, not so many these days that most don't like to shoot them. I've shot three to eat in the last twenty years, 40 years ago they were so numerous that some driven shoots would fill a small grain trailer. A small pheasant shoot I used to attend at that time had a hare drive as part of the lease.

 

[Sharpie]

I eat a lot of hares. They are plentiful, so much so that the estates still have hare drives, to keep the numbers reasonable so that the "dog men" are not tempted to "visit" to run their dogs on them.

I had a potentially awkward incident when walking over the levels here with binos, a serious camera with long lens, and came across at least 30, line abreast, with their lurchers on slip collars. It took some smooth talking to walk away without a beating and loss of my equipment. I think. It was hinted at. It helped that I like dogs, and like lurchers. We have a direct number to report such incidents.

Nothing like rabbit, much more delicious.

Whereas in the South West they are regarded as godly creatures, and you might lose your shooting if heard to have shot one.