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Treacodactyl
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Posted: Wed May 18, 05 9:18 pm Post subject: How to prepare a freshly caught rabbit

Anyone lucky enought to be able to get a fresh rabbit, but doesn't know how to prepare it or it's been a long time since you've done it, then here are a couple of excellent articles with clear pictures to help:

https://www.downsizer.net/Projects/Wild_Food/How_to...__joint_a_rabbit/

https://www.downsizer.net/Projects/Wild_Food/Paunching_&_Skinning_a_Rabbit/

Any other useful hits, tips or comments are more than welcome.

Last edited by Treacodactyl on Fri Jul 01, 05 4:08 pm; edited 2 times in total

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Posted: Thu May 19, 05 8:07 am Post subject:
One threw itself under my car the other day. I stopped to ensure that it was dead/edible but a truck coming the other way made pizza out of it

judith

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Location: Montgomeryshire

Posted: Thu May 19, 05 8:53 am Post subject:
Thanks JB, that is helpful. I'll have to try skinning from the middle next time - I normally start from the back legs and it usually seems like very hard work!

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
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Posted: Sun May 22, 05 11:03 pm Post subject:
Good article, JB!

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Mon May 23, 05 8:45 am Post subject:

Madman wrote:

Good article, JB!

Cheers, the wife wasn't too happy though!

Judith, there are a couple of ways of skinning a rabbit, whole from the back legs upwards is one way of doing it. Some people do find that way of doing things easier but it's down to which one suits you.

BB

Joined: 30 Jun 2005
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Location: Kernow (West)

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 1:57 pm Post subject:
Is this article still available? Treacodactyl's link at the top of the page just takes me to the site front page.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 1:59 pm Post subject:
Try HERE Cheers Jon

cab

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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 2:00 pm Post subject:
BB, try this link, where you can see two good articles on preparing rabbits; one on paunching and skinning, another on jointing. https://www.downsizer.net/Projects/Wild_Food/

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 4:09 pm Post subject:
Links in my post have now been updated.

footprints

Joined: 26 May 2005
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Location: North Wales

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 5:41 pm Post subject: rabbit (roadkill)

Behemoth wrote:

One threw itself under my car the other day. I stopped to ensure that it was dead/edible but a truck coming the other way made pizza out of it

I have never stopped for a dead rabbit, but I have stopped for a hare that someone had just hit. Hare is just fabulous, but have not shot one except with the camera for 10 yrs.

I have also had 2 dead sheep as road kill. Now they are well worth stopping for.

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 6:40 pm Post subject: Re: rabbit (roadkill)

footprints wrote:

I have also had 2 dead sheep as road kill. Now they are well worth stopping for.

Doesn't a road-kill sheep still belong to someone else?

Lloyd

Joined: 24 Jan 2005
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 05 11:41 pm Post subject:

Judith wrote:

Thanks JB, that is helpful. I'll have to try skinning from the middle next time - I normally start from the back legs and it usually seems like very hard work!

Why not start in the middle, like me?..Having paunched it, seperate skin from abdominal wall, work your hand in and around, over the muscles of the back, until you come out the other side. Then cut through the skin above where your hand was, and take the skin offf, like a sock off your foot, for each end.

BB

Joined: 30 Jun 2005
Posts: 9
Location: Kernow (West)

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 05 12:40 am Post subject:
Cheers, m'dears. As I've been feeding the buggers for so long, about time I turned the tables...

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