brooklynbeaver
Making my spirit ready for new trapping season
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Post by brooklynbeaver on Sept 11, 2023 12:28:01 GMT -5
Dear fellow trappers, need your advice/assistance. My small farm happened to be populated by porcupines and woodchucks. I'm curious if any can tell me about these two species to get rid of and if their meat/fur is consumable/valuable?
While porcupine brings me a lot of fruit trees damage and woodchucks eat all my pumpkins crop this year I still don't want to kill them for nothing as I would do to rats. I'm not an exterminator. I just want to get rid of such animals. Mr. Google provides with controversial info about consuming these animals as a food. Also I cannot find any info regarding their fur demand. I'm looking for anybody with personal experience to share. PM or public reply would be nice.
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Post by tony1967 on Sept 11, 2023 13:41:28 GMT -5
Young woodchucks are good eating. Otherwise, use as bait for other fur bearing critters.
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brooklynbeaver
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Post by brooklynbeaver on Sept 11, 2023 13:56:18 GMT -5
Young woodchucks are good eating. Otherwise, use as bait for other fur bearing critters. Thank you, I have an uncounted number of coyotes on property, they howling every night but I was not lucky to got one in trap. After my trap brought a nail of a young bear I stopped trapping coyotes considering such activity dangerous. What about porcupines ? Are they edible?
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Post by tony1967 on Sept 11, 2023 19:14:50 GMT -5
Not sure on that, sorry
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tomsnare
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Post by tomsnare on Sept 12, 2023 7:29:12 GMT -5
We ate porkys, fat meat would pressure cook with some vinegar to "ball up" the fat. Woodchucks we sold the pelts and tails they were shipped to India where they sent them back as flys to fish with. Never ate a woodchuck they had more "friends" than a coyote, only ate a couple coyotes, brined them like a brisket. Out here I eat bobcats and lions, fried, jerked or roast, don't always pull an elk tag. Everything is salable you have to look then decide if the money/value is worth your time to produce it.
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brooklynbeaver
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Post by brooklynbeaver on Sept 12, 2023 8:08:57 GMT -5
We ate porkys, fat meat would pressure cook with some vinegar to "ball up" the fat. Woodchucks we sold the pelts and tails they were shipped to India where they sent them back as flys to fish with. Never ate a woodchuck they had more "friends" than a coyote, only ate a couple coyotes, brined them like a brisket. Out here I eat bobcats and lions, fried, jerked or roast, don't always pull an elk tag. Everything is salable you have to look then decide if the money/value is worth your time to produce it. Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure about the animals list to consume you provided but selling woodchuck' pelts to India intrigued me. If such a buyer is not a big secret or you don't think my 2-3 pelts gonna create a competition for you, can you give me their contact info and a purchase price hints? Based on my experience, people from India is hard to pay for something to import, they do prefer to export everything.
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tomsnare
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Post by tomsnare on Sept 12, 2023 9:00:51 GMT -5
I live in New Mexico now, haven't sold woodchucks for 25 or so years, we dealt with buyers in this country one was in Lake Placid,one somewhere by you can't think of his name try an outfit that advertises for turkey feathers in the trapping papers. They "prime" like anything else, so time of year you kill them for the pelt will matter. If it was me I wouldn't tolerate losing my trees/produce, that would be reason enough to kill 'em. We got from 3-5 dollars for the chucks and a couple dollars an ounce for the quills from an indian. You should be able to sell the skulls maybe some claws.
Tom
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brooklynbeaver
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Post by brooklynbeaver on Sept 12, 2023 10:28:02 GMT -5
I live in New Mexico now, haven't sold woodchucks for 25 or so years, we dealt with buyers in this country one was in Lake Placid,one somewhere by you can't think of his name try an outfit that advertises for turkey feathers in the trapping papers. They "prime" like anything else, so time of year you kill them for the pelt will matter. If it was me I wouldn't tolerate losing my trees/produce, that would be reason enough to kill 'em. We got from 3-5 dollars for the chucks and a couple dollars an ounce for the quills from an indian. You should be able to sell the skulls maybe some claws. Tom Thank you again, appreciate. Nowadays to find a raw fur buyer outside Upstate NY auction room seems impossible. I thought you know some secret door to find such buyers. Today, when 3 y.o. pawpaw tree costs $100.00 + shipping or a buckturn sea berry plant stays around $70.00 and one porky can damage 3-4 trees per night I became a very much proponent for any radical ways to keep such animals behind the fence.
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