pnut Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 28 minutes ago, JHCC said: And in Ireland, they’re O’Possums. Sounds better than Mcpossum Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GolFisHunt Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 That sounds like a tasty sandwich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I've heard it's stringy and greasy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 3 minutes ago, GolFisHunt said: That sounds like a tasty sandwich I was just about to say. I might call em possums but farther back in the holler they just call em dinner. Pnut I had burgoo with possum in it but that particular batch of stew had some similarities to a famous ark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Shouldnt that be MacPossum? Back when we lived further back in the holler i ate possum once but was long ago and i really can not remember what it was like. I do remember that raccoon and ground hog (or as my ex wifes people called them whistle pigs) aint to bad though. When the possum was named in the 1600's it was spelled "Apossum". However they were compares to "pigges". While at work i looked up the difference. They say that "opossum" is N. American while "possum" is Australia, NZ, S. Pacific. While looking that up i found a famous possum on the facebook. Cant remember her name but she is cross eyed and has a bunch of followers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Lucky the Opossum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CtG Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Yeah, no possum/opossum in Northern Colorado. It kind of flip-flopped depending on who you talked to if the "o" was there or not. Once we moved to Texas I got to see a live one pretty close. Eating fallen pomegranates from the tree in the back of where we were renting. That thing looked prehistoric- and the Mouse House had me convinced they might be cute. Faaaaar from it. Though the possum I've seen pictures of from down under look much more like what I had in mind. I am curious though- Firefly, lightning bug, glowfly... growing up (we didn't have them) we called them lightning bugs when we would visit my uncle in Missouri. That jig for making pentagonal sections is pretty cool- simple things I'd never thought of abound I'm finding haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 1 hour ago, BillyBones said: While looking that up i found a famous possum on the facebook. Cant remember her name but she is cross eyed and has a bunch of followers There used to be a hobo i l was friends with when I was growing up in Covington KY that had a pet possum named smirk. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lazyassforge Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Possums are the one animal around here that are on my immediate hit list. I leave snakes alone and skunks are even grudgingly tolerated. Possums are carriers of a protozoan called sarcosistis horses (and mules) pick up the eggs of the Protozoa from eating grass where the possums poop. If the protozoan goes into the muscles of the horse basically no harm done but if they get into the nervous system or brain the horses are seriously damaged. I’ve had a horse and a mule which were infected? In their nervous system. Watching the damage done to these animals was enough to turn me into a possum hater! Sorry if my words are misspelled or terms misused. bill D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 On the other hand, they eat the ticks that carry Lyme disease, so there's that. (Also, the name of the parasite is "sarcocystis"; the disease is called "sarcocystosis".) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daswulf Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 My property is possum friendly. Ive relocated two that got into the chicken coop but they were just eating the chickens food not the chickens. I catch them eating the cat food I put out for the ferals once in a while, and see them out foraging in the yard at times at night. I don't mind the possums, raccoons or even skunks as long as they don't seem agressive or go after my chickens. I really don't like the groundhogs. They've been a major pain in the garden and their holes when I mow the fields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pnut Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 There's no worries about horses in Covington. The only horses were at the livery stable where the horses that pull the carriages in downtown Cincinnati and the police horses were boarded. I had my first job there. Pnut Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 12 minutes ago, Daswulf said: I really don't like the groundhogs. They've been a major pain in the garden and their holes when I mow the fields. I've heard groundhogs are good to eat. You ever tried them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I've posted several times previously that I found a small (2") smoothbore blackpowder cannon effective against groundhogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I bet, Thomas! I don't mind critters running around here as long as they leave the livestock alone. My dogs see it differently however, so they tread here at their own risk. I worry more about snakes than anything. Had a couple of rabbits killed by them. Coyotes are always around, but I've never any problems with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I have and they are fatty. Well depending on where you get them from.. We helped grow a biggin as he loved all the veggie garden.. tasted like chicken.. Nope. Tasted like ground hoggggg.. We call them woodchucks here in these parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 When I moved to my little piece of heaven here in the woods in 1999, the place was crawling with Coyote, Raccoons, etc., etc., etc. The previous owners of the property even asked me to continue feeding the Raccoons dog food at night. (didn't take me long to realize her little pets were actually a "herd" of 50 plus Raccoons that EXPECTED to be fed at sundown every night and would be all over my roof, back porch.............on my lawn chairs and paws on the patio doors waiting. What a mess!) But that's a whole 'nother story. So back to the Coyote population. Started shooting them any time I'd see one. They were always stalking my Llamas. I had 23 Llamas at the time and wanted to keep them! Didn't take but about two years to stop the problem. Don't know if I decimated the packs or just "convinced" them to move to another neighborhood, but while we hear them all the time, we seldom see them any more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyBones Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 From what i understand possums do not get rabies either. Ground hog aint to bad a little fatty but then again looking at them wouldnt you expect that. I had a ground hog for a pet for a few months one summer. Had to turn him loose when he started trying to burrow in the yard. I got one now that likes to go into the barn, but i think that is just so he can fight with the cats. He attacks them on site. "Dang woodchucks! Quit chuckin my wood!" I actually thought there was a new lumber place that opened up first time i saw that commercial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 LOL.. thats funny right.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 I've eaten possum and coon and they're about the same. Possum's more trouble cause you have to feed them out for a week. They are fatty also but you pressure cook them for 30 minutes and gets a lot of the fat out. Coon is delicious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlpservicesinc Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 Well way back we were a outdoors family.. Squirrel, racoon, rabbit, Deer, pheasant, Grouse, wood cock, pig, cow, Trout, frogs, etc, etc. it was an interesting time.. Why is it Carrots and potatoes goes great with each one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted February 10, 2020 Share Posted February 10, 2020 You're making me hungry. Carrots and taters are good all by themselves. That's why they're good with any game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 You are not cooking for real till you throw an onion in with them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyGoatLady Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Oh yeah, gotta have onion in there. Geez, I'm glad it's nearly suppertime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Griffin Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Cook it on the forge and it's what you did in the shop today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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