Dead foxes!
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Fricassee of fox.
shakey jake
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one chicken farm i leave next to the incinerator for the farmer to deal with, most go in ditches, any others i put in an old potato sack and pop in green bin
shakey
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Believe it or not. My neighbour has them for eating. 
As long as the hole isn’t to big. He is trying to get me to try it. But I’m having none of it. I‘d consider being veggie over it I think.
If smashed from bullet damage or next door isn’t hungry. It stays in nature’s pantry.
As long as the hole isn’t to big. He is trying to get me to try it. But I’m having none of it. I‘d consider being veggie over it I think.If smashed from bullet damage or next door isn’t hungry. It stays in nature’s pantry.
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Tim.243
landkeeper
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No no no it is truely awful do not even be in the same room when its cooking .Believe it or not. My neighbour has them for eating.
If smashed from bullet damage or next door isn’t hungry. It stays in nature’s pantry.
As far as disposal goes , the bottom of a dry hedgerow or similar they dont take long to rot down
We had a small filled in pit on our spot, we called it boot hill.
Never thought about eating fox before. And I doubt I will again ha ha.
Anyway, I am with the others. Chuck it somewhere out the way. Although to be fair, at our place the badgers just drag the bloody things out and rag on them anyway. Oddly though, sometimes you get the odd fox that just stays where I put it for ages. Never been sure whether there is a reason why corvids, badgers etc won't touch them or if it is just one of those things.
Most of them do decompose down or get eaten pretty quick.
Anyway, I am with the others. Chuck it somewhere out the way. Although to be fair, at our place the badgers just drag the bloody things out and rag on them anyway. Oddly though, sometimes you get the odd fox that just stays where I put it for ages. Never been sure whether there is a reason why corvids, badgers etc won't touch them or if it is just one of those things.
Most of them do decompose down or get eaten pretty quick.
I am reliably told that badger is delicious. There used to be a pub in Norfolk that specialised in serving it.
www.theguardian.com
"Fox is far tastier; there's never any fat on it, and it's subtle, with a lovely texture, firm but soft. It's much more versatile than beef, and has a salty, mineral taste rather like gammon "
I'd be prepared to try it.
Experience: I eat roadkill
Jonathan McGowan: 'When friends come to dinner, it could be a fox lasagne, or a frog stir-fry'
www.theguardian.com
"Fox is far tastier; there's never any fat on it, and it's subtle, with a lovely texture, firm but soft. It's much more versatile than beef, and has a salty, mineral taste rather like gammon "
I'd be prepared to try it.
landkeeper
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I can tell you with 100% certainty badger is not delicious in fact it is at the complete other end of the taste spectrum ! only falling slightly behind a longer tailed mustelid that was once slow cooked by myself and a couple of friends , that particular animal would have made a hyenea gag .
i think the simple rule should be with mammals anyway! if it eats meat and carrion then leave it well alone!!!!!!!!!!!! , if it eats fish then possibly its edible but proceed with caution, one major tip i can give is never ever ever slice through a anal scent gland whilst skinning in an enclosed area ,oh and no ammount of soaking in brine can untaint that smell from a carcass lol
i think the simple rule should be with mammals anyway! if it eats meat and carrion then leave it well alone!!!!!!!!!!!! , if it eats fish then possibly its edible but proceed with caution, one major tip i can give is never ever ever slice through a anal scent gland whilst skinning in an enclosed area ,oh and no ammount of soaking in brine can untaint that smell from a carcass lol
I'm not averse to eating roadkill myself - had plenty of pheasants, partridges, rabbits and hares that way. But I would certainly draw the line at fox, no matter how it was killed.I am reliably told that badger is delicious. There used to be a pub in Norfolk that specialised in serving it.
Experience: I eat roadkill
Jonathan McGowan: 'When friends come to dinner, it could be a fox lasagne, or a frog stir-fry'
"Fox is far tastier; there's never any fat on it, and it's subtle, with a lovely texture, firm but soft. It's much more versatile than beef, and has a salty, mineral taste rather like gammon "
I'd be prepared to try it.
landkeeper
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Urban legend and what do you call not so long ago lol they have had full protection since at least 1972
levigsp
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Correct, if you get to know the owners well, most will happily pay for them. But if you walk in and ask straight out, they think your taking the mick and throw you out.
levigsp
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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.
I've eaten lots of the stuff, usually picked up very late at night on my runs up to Norfolk. Many many pheasants and hares, a few rabbits, ducks, a beautiful goose that I watched the car in front hit, muntjac, roe, even a guinea-fowl (where did that come from ?). Usually still warm, just whacked on the head at car bumper level with no signs of internal damage. Even a very well fed lazy pheasant that took off my wing mirror. Eating it afterwards was some compensation. It does puzzle me why so many animals like to wander about on the roads, I've heard that they like the warmth from the day, which is retained in the road.
No fox or badger though, the keepers on the big estates there have pretty much eliminated them.
PS: on another thread a fox-shooter mentioned that he scalps and skins them, presumably there is a market for that for the furrier trade, unfashionable though that may be in this country.
Obviously skinny mange-ridden scavenging urban foxes are different from healthy country ones.
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