Nutria

[Frenchy]

Floods are a good opportunity for shooting some rodents.  

[Frenchy]

Posting later

[ethan]

I was born and raides in South La. and have killed my share of them.  I've eaten alot of things, but as far as a nutria....I aint never been that hungry!

[Frenchy]

Swamp rats are also totally confused when a pond is frozen.
This makes them easy prey to foxes (the young ones)  

[Frenchy]

Originally posted by ethan:
I was born and raides in South La. and have killed my share of them.  I've eaten alot of things, but as far as a nutria....I aint never been that hungry!

I seldom at one.
An adult weighs approximately 17 lb, it makes quickly too much meat when you shoot them all around the year.
Besides, in Summer, it's illegal to transport nutrias and muskrats and you have to bury them (to reduce the risk of infectious diseases propagation: leptospirosis)

[david_lewis93]

They are still a problem to the Rice farmers in S.E> coastal Texas too they will ruin a set of field leves on a night .Like the ole boy sain in that movie "look bad,,, taste worse. "
David    out

[Ian johnson]

they have a few that live in the drainage dith in the woods behind my house, shot at them a couple times with a .22 but never tried to eat one

[Frenchy]

I don't take dogs for nutria hunting (it happened during a pheasant hunting)
Nutria bites can cause serious wounds to dogs.
This day,my female labrador has been severely bitten repeatedly and the wounds were very deep.  :(  


       

[Lawrenceu]

Killed lots of them.  Never ate one.  They are a destructive terrible nuisance.

[Frenchy]

Closer,closer,closer ...      

[pintail_drake2004]

if ya dont put such big hole in them when ya shoot them, you could skin and stretch them out and send to the NAFA. Their fur is rather pretty, and use to be ranched for the fur market.

[skillet]

So where do we sign up to go eradi-nutria-cating? Sure looks like fun....

[beaver#1]

eaten one,  ti could have been prepared better.  i also cut the backstrap out of a beaver.  very very good fried.

[Jeremy]

I don't know... looks like it'd be pretty tasty!     I haven't eaten a bad beaver and imagine these critters would be similar.

[Charlie Cole]

Hmm. I wish I'd taken advantage of hunting opportunities for these buggers when I lived on Delmarva.

But I saw one a couple weeks ago near the in-laws' place (Great Dismal Swamp, NC). I guess that means I gotta try one.

Can you grill them on low heat, or is it boil-and-barbecue only?

-Charlie

[Oregon Okie]

Man, i thought you guys were joking about eating them. Now I'm getting curious. Think I'll make a nutria tooth necklace now.

[Dr. Ed Ashby]

My hunting partner, James Hayes and I arrowed literally boatloads of them down along the Texas coast and the Intercoastal Canal back in the '50's and early 60's. Sold most to a mink farm for 25 cents each, to be ground up for mink food. Always use well sharpened broadheads on them; they are fairly large and really tough. Use big, wide-cut broadheads; we used the Deadheads and the Goshawks. NEVER use green-colored shafts; for some reason they love to bite through green shafts. And, yes, they are pretty good eat'n too!

Ed
TGMM Family of the Bow

[Wednesday Caste]

I'm new to hunting and thought this too was a joke- but is there nothing hunters don't eat? LOL

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[Steve Kendrot]

Frenchy,

Thanks for posting pictures! I work on a nutria control/eradication program in Maryland USA. Its really neat to see the kinds of habitat they live in around the world.

Steve