Eating rabbit

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NewLife2626

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My dad and grandpa use to tell me to not eat rabbits with green livers, so I am wondering what else I need to look out for before eating rabbit?
 
Originally Posted By: NewLife2626My dad and grandpa use to tell me to not eat rabbits with green livers, so I am wondering what else I need to look out for before eating rabbit?

Well I've eaten them with green beans and had no trouble
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I'm not sure I'd eat green liver with or without rabbits.
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Old wisdom in my neck of the woods was to also look for white spots on the liver. If a rabbit looks in anyway unhealthy, or like it was going to die even if I didn't come along, I will just leave it lay.
 
White spots on liver or heart. Burry it right away and wash up good. If you start getting sick you could have tularamaria and need to seek medical attention right away.

About coulple hundred people get it a year.

They can also have rabbies, ticks, bott fly, tape worm, mites, fleas, and who knows what else. Always wear gloves and washup. Don't let your dogs get to them.

As long as you cook it well you should be fine. I have never had one with spots on the liver

There are probably millions of rabbits eaten a year without a problem. I don't worry too much about it. I only eat rabbits killed after there has been some good frost. I feed summer rabbits to the dog.

 
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we have a big problem with spoted livers around hear. most of the time i throgh away mor than i can keep because they are sick
 
We always wait till after a good freeze. Supposed to kill the sick ones.. But I am always careful when dressing..
 
The good freeze is good advice. I always heard only eat Rabbits shot in months with an "R" in them SepembeR, OctobeR, NovembeR, DecembeR, JanuaRy, FebRaRy, MaRch, ApRil.

I would follow that advice and look for any other oddities like spots or green livers.
 
Quote:It once was thought that if hunters would wait after the first freeze that they would have less of a chance of obtaining this, and that it would kill off the infected or sick animals. This is untrue. You can still obtain tularemia from a rabbit in December, January, or February even after the first freeze.
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Whatever.
 
They can still be sick but it atleast reduces the amount of fleas, ticks and other insects if there has been frost. However, I've found fleas and ticks when it was 16 degrees in FEB. All the diseases and bugs have to have some that make it thru the winter to the next spring.
 


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