Crow hunters out there do you eat the meat.

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We have a complex season for crow. Wed. Fri. Sat. and holidays most of the year except spring and part of the summer. Electronic calls are allowed. No limit.

Never had the urge to eat one, but I will shoot them when they start damaging my corn. They are bad about pulling it up when it sprouts along with some other birds.
 
There is a season in Kansas. Makes no sense to have a closed season since they exist in huge numbers and are recognized as a pest. Anywho....no, I don't eat them, but the possums and coyotes love them. I usually manage to shoot 5-6 before they get wise to the call. I gather them up and pitch them in a ditch. They are always gone by morning.
 
desidog said:
Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to eat any animal that eats carrion flesh like roadkill. The amount of bacteria they encounter is high, and your body isn't used to those types of bacteria either...

The only exception people make to this, and i don't know why, is eating raccoon and opossum.
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Folks eat bear all the time and bear are carrion eaters, along with garbage. Wild turkeys pick thru cow manure to get half digested corn, I've cleaned birds whose crop looked like the inside of a manure spreader. E. Coli and Listeriosis are both found in cow manure and are easily spread to humans. Proper handling and cooking of any meat is important. I would suspect the burgers at MacDees has worse bacteria in them than crow meat.:D
 
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Nope ! Use the dead for immediate crow decoys then they become coyote bait.
I think of it as my attemps at recycling.
Mike in ILL
 
tarosean said:
They are protected species under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.


If ya did I wouldn't be telling anyone...just sayin
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We used to shoot crows in Alabama and were asked more than once for the dead crows so the people could eat them. We always said yes.

Crows are only protected under the migratory bird treaty because Mexico insisted on it. The seasons are very generous and there is no bag or possession limit.
 
"Season" here is a Friday - Sunday ordeal from early June through early/ mid March. I was always under the impression that stemmed from a treaty with Mexico?
Sounds like that's not the case, or at least some states don't recognize it?

Hadn't shot a single crow in several years until this spring. Had a few getting too brave and coming into my yard taking baby cardinals out of their nests.
A few piles of crow feathers left in the grass changed the rest of their minds.

Eat em?
Guess I've not been that hungry yet.
 
My neighbor and i like to hunt together on occaision, and on one particular outting we bagged a crow (legally.) I'd been wanting to try it just to see how it was and he agreed to try it as well. 15 minutes after it hit the ground it was on the grill with a little salt & pepper, nothing else. Smelled like strong poultry.

After the apprehensive first bite, we promptly devoured the rest of our respective crow medallion and agreed that there was only really one problem. We wished we'd bagged a few more! Excellent tablefare. In fact, i'd bet most people if told it was beef would never suspect otherwise. It was honestly very good.
 
NO!!!!....would be like eatin' rats!!!.....a town by me thinks shootin' noise makers in the air will run them off only for a little while then they come back........kill a few and they get the message and steer clear of that area....
 
Out of curiosity then why hunt crow? I mean even with coyote hunting you can get a good fur but with crow nothing.
Are there crow problems in certain areas?
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Evidently, crows have never heard the old saying ‘one to rot, one for the crow and one to grow’ because they will walk down a row pulling EVERY sprout and eating the seed from its base.
 
My brother & I used to hunt those buggers----
We would sit & wait---the crows would send out a scout & it would check the area before the flock came in..
I would fire into a crowd of about 50 & was lucky if I knocked down 2 or 3.
It gave us something to do when we had our limit of pheasant---:evil::evil:
 
You've got to be kidding! I suppose you eat Magpies too huh? Those filthy trash eating, carrion gobblin' bane of the outdoors. I'd shoot them, wouldn't even care to kick the carcass, just leave them for the other trash eaters, they'll be along shortly! You'd waste the time to even clean them? Whew, theres plenty of other things to eat in my opinion.
 
If you had read my post I was just wondering if any did. As I stated I would not even think of eating it myself. But I figured why shoot them if you are not going to eat it. Unless it serves some other purpose as in getting rid of them from eating crops. And there is a season so that means some other purpose than nuisance tags which is year around.
 
You've got to be kidding! I suppose you eat Magpies too huh? Those filthy trash eating, carrion gobblin' bane of the outdoors. I'd shoot them, wouldn't even care to kick the carcass, just leave them for the other trash eaters, they'll be along shortly! You'd waste the time to even clean them? Whew, theres plenty of other things to eat in my opinion.
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We don't have magpies, but i'd probably try them too. It's a critter, made of meat just like what you buy at the store (although in all likelihood it's probably cleaner than store-bought.) so, tell me... do you like crab? Shrimp? Pork? Chicken?
 
Eat`n crow

I never have my self that I know of. But as a kid, I can remember my Grand Paw and his old friends talking about when times were tough shooting Crows or finding a roosting tree and diging hole under the tree and burying Dyminte then covering it with small pea gravel. Then waiting till the tree was full of roosting crows and siting off the dyminte. They then would gather up all the dead crows and ship them to OK CITY or TULSA on the train. They said the rich people bought as many as they would send and they thought Crows were great to eat. But I can`t remember any of us eating any of them. Crows dammage crops thow, why do you think farmers put Scare Crows in their corn fields.
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