Never had squirrel, but rabbits are tasty. My family has always had meat rabbits. We ate a lot of muskrat aka "beef" stew growing up... Yum!!!!
So, if one were to want to raise rabbits for (meat) food...what type should he look for? How about the diet for them?
New Zealand whites or Florida whites are fairly popular. Badgebunny can give a couple other options. You buy bagged rabbit pellets because if you feed them very much green grass or green veggies it will give them scours and could kill them. Alfalfa or Timothy hay is popular to feed in addition to pellets.
I recently got a #110 Conibear trap im going to experiment with. This trap is relatively light weight, if I get to where I like it I plan to keep about 4 in my BOB. They are a kill trap and are reusable, unlike a wire snare...normally a wire snare is only able to catch once. The #110 Conibear is sized for squirrels and other similar sized animals. Any Conibear larger then the 110 will require tools for setting.
Thats funny haven't heard that before.... Limb Chickens...haFor me, it's when I get a chance to go which will be after deer gun season closes. This year I have a new 17HM2 rifle I'm dieing to try out on the little limb chickens.
Also interesting to note related to the fish comments, the Conibear can be used to trap fish.
Here is a decent buy for the conibear 110's http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-DUKE-110-...217?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f2c2c82c9
And it should be noted that Conibears are illegal to use in Oklahoma without proper licensing. Of course I understand if SHTF that won't matter.
Wow thanks for that, I wasn't planning on running a trap line but never considered it being illegal either. Makes setting a few up for training a little freaky. I'm going to search for links on trapping in Oklahoma and laws.
Read them carefully, there's a 1001 ways to get the Oklahoma trapping regs wrong
Edit: I say this jokingly of course, when compared to other states and our surrounding states, our trapping regs look like they were created by PETA
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