What to do With Dead Varmints?

[Double_J]

A friend shot a large nutria rat with his 7mm mag. one evening. The rodent was destroying his pond and stayed out of the traps and out of range of the .22 long rifle. he took the carcass and made a nice coyote bait pile, so waste not want not.

 

[whm1974]

A friend shot a large nutria rat with his 7mm mag. one evening. The rodent was destroying his pond and stayed out of the traps and out of range of the .22 long rifle. he took the carcass and made a nice coyote bait pile, so waste not want not.

Aren't the pelts worth something? I read that Nutria meat is fairly good if you know how to fix it.

 

[Double_J]

Aren't the pelts worth something? I read that Nutria meat is fairly good if you know how to fix it.

The pelts are wort at most $5.00 but only if trapped. This guy didn't care about the meat as he had a freezer full of beef, pork, venison and duck. He just wanted the nutria gone, he didn't care about "swamp rat meat."

 

[Swifty Morgan]

So sorry for your loss. Did he get there before or after the coyote?

After. When he saw them removing it from the bin, he told my aunt, "This is my chance! Hold my beer!"

 

[Robbins290]

I burn them or bury them. Most likely will have lead in them and there are alot of eagles that eat road kill around here. I do not want to kill a eagle because i throw a animal out in a field.

 

[.308 Norma]

A rancher friend and his wife stopped by the house this afternoon. He asked us to come over and see what we could do to put a dent in their ground squirrel population. We'll be leaving them where they fall, or in the case of being hit with a bullet from one of our 22-250s, explode.

 

[Sniper66]

I kill 100s of prairie dogs and they never last more than a day before some other critter makes lunch out of them. My bro-n-law had an infestation of coons and killed a couple dozen of them over a period of 2-3 weeks. He pitched them in a big ditch that ran through his 40 acres. They magically disappeared quickly. When I field dress a deer on my niece's ranch, it takes the buzzards and crows less than a day to completely devour the gut pile. Nature at it's healthy best!

 

[bikerdoc]

I got grand kids. They shoot them and then I say:
Hey Jr, dig a hole over there and bury that thing.

 

[rbernie]

When I field dress a deer on my niece's ranch, it takes the buzzards and crows less than a day to completely devour the gut pile. Nature at it's healthy best!

Where I've hunted in north Texas, anything buried was dug up (usually by hogs) within 12hrs. The ranch owners that I know have developed the habit of just tossing gutpiles and carcasses into, well, the gut pile ditch. It has the secondary benefit of acting as hunting bait for the hogs.

 

[natman]

There is no way I'm going to eat a coyote or a coon.

http://m.alfafarmers.org/local-flav...-list-january-11/coon-a-la-delta#.Xt0eDed7mUk

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

Can do the same thing for fish. Hang over a pond or River. Feed the small ones and the big ones will follow.

Many many years ago I was the Handyman's helper at a kid summer camp. He went salmon fishing one day off and the cleaned fish carcasses went into the chicken yard. The chickens didn't care till the maggots got to crawling and then they chowed down.
Regarding varmints, they get tossed over the road into the ditch by the fence.
"Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms..."

 

[cfullgraf]

Raccoons and possums are undesirable around our hobby horse farm. Opossums carry diseases very bad for horses.

Most of the time, I trap the animal and then shoot it in the head with a 22RF. Sometimes, I can pop them a shotgun as they are leaving the outdoor cats' food platform.

If the weather is cold and we are near trash day, the carcass goes out with the trash. If not, I dump them out in the south field or get out the back hoe.

We have skunks around but if they do not approach the house, they get left alone. We've had a couple that strayed around the house during the day and they were dispatched when they've ambled out to one of the fields away from the house. They get left for the scavengers. No way I'm getting into cloud a dead skunk leaves behind as they transition to the after life.

 

[Bfh_auto]

Today, I saw a coon in my yard, and to my everlasting shame, I didn't shoot him. He was wandering around outside my bedroom, and he appeared to be oblivious to the fact that I was a few feet away standing behind a sliding glass door.

It got me thinking. What am I supposed to do with dead varmints? There is no way I'm going to eat a coyote or a coon. What do most people do? Do you just throw them over the fence and leave them for the buzzards?

Coon actually tastes very good if it's par boiled then BBQed in a roaster.
I feed the fish, turtles, and crayfish in my pond.
I have cremated a few. Others got buried. It all depends on what's happening at the moment.

 

[grampster]

I had a whistle pig problem for about 4 years. I live trapped 'em and then took 'em to a game area north of us, across a river, about 8 miles away. I let them go out there, but I began to suspect they were finding their way back. The last two years, I live trapped 'em and then took them to the game area and released them from the earthy pale. If anyone decides to do live trap them and then take them someplace for disposal alive, put a good layer of cardboard and paper under the cage. They will crap in the cage and it is nasty smelling. I popped them in the head with a .22 LR from my S&W mod 63. I dumped them in the weeds so I imagine some other critters got some protein.

 

[JohnKSa]

If you like true Mexican cuisine, you can eat nearly anything. TexMex is not the same as true Mexican food. True Mexican food derives its flavor from spices and the non-meat ingredients and uses mostly ground or shredded meat that is generally unidentifiable. It's designed to handle nearly any type of meat as the meat ingredient without changing the overall character of the food very much.

There are a number of ways to deal with varmint carcasses.

1. I've seen at least one youtuber who tests mouse/rat traps set out the carcasses with a game camera to view the species that come to consume them.
2. Another who hunts pest birds gives the carcasses to the "barn cats" that patrol his hunting grounds. He also eats some of them himself depending on the species.
3. I've seen some who legally dispose of the carcasses in various ways. Taking them to dumping areas that the landowner has set aside for that purpose, or just leaving them in place.

Some pretty good ideas in this thread as well. The dog food recipe is pretty smart.

 

[jmorris]

I guess I read the title back in May and not the OP before I made my original post.

Today, I saw a coon in my yard, and to my everlasting shame, I didn't shoot him.

I’m not a “if it moves, it dies.” Guy. If they are not causing damage or are not venomous, poisonous, or otherwise harmful and around places we are, no need in being ashamed of letting things live, at least the way I was taught.

 

[sscoyote]

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[sscoyote]

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[tws3b2]

I see no sense in killing a coon for just wondering through your yard and I don't hold with killing any animal without reason. After that said, I don't care what they say. This is planet Earth. Nothing is wasted here. Mother Earth recycles everything over and over again. Death , Not love makes the world go around. Without it the Planet itself will die. But life is precious so there must be a balance.

 

[Highland Lofts]

One of my friends turned seventy a few months ago.
When he was twelve years old there was a Mexican resturaunt that would buy what ever they caught, trapped or shot with thier pelet guns.
They took all kinds of animals & birds over there that they butchered and put in to thier menu.
They sold that place lots of menu items until they started driving and chaseing girls and got part time jobs.

When the salmon run inland to spawn they start to die & rot. They would take some of these half dead, starting to rot alive salmon over there and they would cut them up and salvage the edible parts for fish tacos.

 

[JustSomeGuy264]

Knew a kid in high school that used groundhogs he shot to attract catfish. I think he would let them lay for a day or two then put them in a sack with a couple large rocks and drop it in the river. Come back in a couple days and fish there. He swore by it but I've never tried it so can't speak to its validity

 

[23tony]

If you like true Mexican cuisine, you can eat nearly anything. TexMex is not the same as true Mexican food. True Mexican food derives its flavor from spices and the non-meat ingredients and uses mostly ground or shredded meat that is generally unidentifiable. It's designed to handle nearly any type of meat as the meat ingredient without changing the overall character of the food very much.

I've always said "If you have enough chile you can make anything edible"

 

[tactikel]

A guy over at Predator Masters used chain link fencing to make a 10' ring on a hill about 175 yards from his back porch. Dumped all his Coyote kills in it. It brought in all sorts of predators/scavengers within range of his .243.