Having noticed earlier in an article I assume was written by Bob in 1999 it was recommended not to eat the meat from crows due to the West Nile Virus. At that time the CDC had made no comment on the transmission of the disease through consuming infected animals. Having eaten crow in the past I was disappointed that I could no longer enjoy the breast meat. It is quite tasty by the way, especially if taken from birds that feed primarily from farm crops.
I went to the CDC website today (the link is below) and was pleased to find that they have found no evidence of disease transmission through the consumption of diseased animals. As always they recommend thorough cooking of the meat. This is good news to me and I'm sure to others that have partaken in the tasty flesh of the American Crow. Living in Western Washington we have had no reported cases of crows dying from the West Nile Virus. Between that and the CDC statement I'm looking forward to eating some of my harvest this year if I manage to get out and hunt the wily critters (my health permitting). Good hunting... and eating.
Not edible game on my front. Crows are a challenging and exciting bird to hunt. I respect the species greatly for this. Thats where it stops with me! They recycle very easily, skunks, raccoons, fox, coyote...etc have to east too!
Ted
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Every animal that eats meat will eat crow...and if they eat crows they wont eat the farmers cows meaning coyotes who eat the farmers calves...they are pretty bad around here or have been...deer are now sleeping in the back yards close to town thanks to coyotes eating their young...just what we don't need is deer running in front of cars down town!
If you want the coyotes to eat the dead crows do not touch them; your human scent will run the coyotes off! Just shoot them and leave them lay. Other animals are not as smart as the coyote and will eat the dead crows that you have handled.
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West nile virus has actually all but wiped out the blue jay here..crows aren't terribly affected I don't think..I see the same two around every year all year long..but i noticed a huge decrease in the sparrow and yellow hammer (Northern flicker) population...this has wiped out most of the bird population period of all species...I believe it was invented not from some African goose....everything comes out of Africa now doesn't it?Every weird virus all of a sudden. Well I don't believe it...
Lyme disease all of a sudden from lyme Connecticutt yet across the bay in New York on Plum Island there is this laboratory and no red flags huh? All these strange unusual flues and viruses popping up from the late 70s through the eighties all of a sudden even...prescriptions are on the moon....if we had all these airplane hijackers running around back then just who do you think they'd be blaming? Not wandering big old gray geese out of Africa who some how live in the desert...?!
Just keep this in mind-be same don't mess with suspected crows with that virus...don't eat them ...
We don't have West Nile virus in the UK, what we do get is Asian bird flu, which can and does kill corvids, and many other species including duck :( When that happens, they usually tell us to avoid touching the birds at all, as it's also deadly to humans. Usually that means wearing two pairs of surgical gloves and camo gloves over the top, then disinfecting them if we have to pick birds
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I'm on the same page as M12. I've heard of them being eaten and tasting good but unless it has to do with survival I will pass on even giving them a try. Down here folks eat a lot of stuff I pass on (chitlings,squirrel brains,rattlesnakes,etc). But I will give you a thumbs up on adventure eating.
I'm on the same page as M12. I've heard of them being eaten and tasting good but unless it has to do with survival I will pass on even giving them a try. Down here folks eat a lot of stuff I pass on (chitlings,squirrel brains,rattlesnakes,etc). But I will give you a thumbs up on adventure eating.
Butch
Having lived in the South for years I've had the opportunity to eat many different critters. Chitterlings are fine unless I have to smell them cooking. Rattlesnake is tasty, haven't had squirrel brains, but love squirrel and rabbit, alligator, feral hogs and yes... even crows breast. Nutria isn't half bad depending on where you take them and how you clean them. Muskrat is pretty tasty, but I've yet to eat raccoon. I'm hunting cougar this year in hopes of bagging a tom and partaking in steaks and backstrap. I leave plenty of crow on the ground to feed the various predators that I hunt as well, but you should give crow breast a try. You might surprise yourself and like it. JMHO
Many antis are filthy rich. What does this mean? Well in example one argument for deer hunting here was "no wolves"....getting the picture? Now wolves are turning up in select areas and the Fish and Game as we call it here DENIES it of course...just too coincidental in my book...or more than? Now reports are turning up about mountain lions and i've seen them on two occasions and so too have others...naturally the Fish and Game denies that too....I don't put anything past rich hunting haters and if they will sabotage your set ups as reported by NH Crowshooter then with some money and nothing better to do I don't put it past them they'd insert wolves into any area...not merely rip down speakers which is totally outrageous no matter how much it costs. Anyways who'd stuff mountain lions smuggled into NH anyways? I still don't understand how Mississippi Kites got into NH a couple thousand miles away from the gulf of Mexico!?!? I don't know what the idea behind that might be...naturally they don't seem to impact anything like a mountain lion would or wolves?
Coyotes are another "how did they get here all of a sudden" wildlife that without any natural predators have gone hog wild eating baby deer like popcorn at a movie theater!
Back in the late 70s I heard talk about the "coy-dog" -hybrid mix but I never saw one until they began becoming a plague almost..fortunately I got neighbors who are pretty good at shooting them! But they seem to be more numerous than foxes to be sure...?
I am saying I believe some one is reintroducing wildlife long thought to be largely if not wholly removed from this area besides the oddball birds showing up....
Or who had reintroduced relatively foreign wildlife to this area over the years. If you got money and all this time to spend it and no place to really be thanks to the privilege of wealth and some ambition to "change" things whether social change or what have we i think they will do it..hard not to use the power of wealth if you don't like something and can now effect change with money. You could haul wildlife into another state or region with whatever you need because you could afford to!
There is some interstate trafficker in wildlife in as much as anything else no matter what it is -you name it-illegal or not-immoral or not-people will move it if there is a demand or even political interest. People routinely come to NH I am told and vote in this state from a neighboring state!
I cannot prove any of this except to ask:"Well where did the mountain lion and wolf come from?" The Greyhound bus?
Coyotes are another "how did they get here all of a sudden" wildlife that without any natural predators have gone hog wild...
I am saying I believe some one is reintroducing wildlife long thought to be largely if not wholly removed from this area besides the oddball birds showing up.... Or who had reintroduced relatively foreign wildlife to this area over the years...
On a related subject, the Great Lakes are full of "exotic species" that are crowding out the natural desirable ones: lamprey, zebra mussels, quagga mussels, alewives, gobies--and we're waiting for the Asian carp to pop up (literally). All of these were brought in from foreign ships' ballast water (except the carp, which Fine City of Chicago made possible by changing the flow direction of a river). All out of negligence, bribery, and other stupidity.
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Coyotes are another "how did they get here all of a sudden" wildlife that without any natural predators have gone hog wild...
I am saying I believe some one is reintroducing wildlife long thought to be largely if not wholly removed from this area besides the oddball birds showing up.... Or who had reintroduced relatively foreign wildlife to this area over the years...
On a related subject, the Great Lakes are full of "exotic species" that are crowding out the natural desirable ones: lamprey, zebra mussels, quagga mussels, alewives, gobies--and we're waiting for the Asian carp to pop up (literally). All of these were brought in from foreign ships' ballast water (except the carp, which Fine City of Chicago made possible by changing the flow direction of a river). All out of negligence, bribery, and other stupidity.
Same in the UK :(
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In South Carolina some weird non native plant species is choking out the native fauna....some weird new swan turned up in Vermont and the orders are to shoot on sight....Florida has non native snakes such as the pythons from south america which has virtually wiped out all or nearly all the four legged native wildlife from A-Z....including birds of virtually every type....to the point of near extinction...what happened in that case a pet store or two was devastated by hurricanes past and the 3 foot snakes(grew up to ten plus foot monsters) escaped to live in the highly hospitable atmosphere of south Florida which have also been wiping out the neighborhood pets...people are reporting chimpanzees in the Everglades...!!!
