NH Homesteader- turkeys!

[NH homesteader]

Ok though, you guys have been neglecting to tell me something very important. Nutria rats????? This is a thing??? I'm hind of horrified that these things exist!


But seriously there are very few goat farma up here so it would be nice to have goaties everywhere!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

They have those in Tennessee? Oh that's a deal breaker! Nah, I hear they taste good. But, I thought they only lived in swamps??? Shows ya how much I know about 'em....

 

[Bruce]

"Coypus live in burrows alongside stretches of water. They feed on river plant stems."

Just don't buy property with running water

 

[NH homesteader]

But I WANT property with running water!

 

[Bruce]

Then you will figure out how to deal with the Nutria!

 

[Mike CHS]

I haven't heard of Nutria outside of west Tennessee so far. That doesn't mean they won't migrate. We have large numbers of groundhogs though. I'm declaring war on them in one part of my pasture.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Here's an idea:
Nutria Chili

Recipe by: Chef Enola Prudhomme

3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 pounds nutria ground meat
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon red pepper
1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon chili powder
1 cup diced onion
1 cup diced green bell pepper
1 cup diced red bell pepper
1 cup tomato paste
4 cups beef stock (or water)
1 can red kidney beans (opt.)

In a heavy 5-quart pot on high heat, add oil and heat until very hot. Add nutria meat, and cook and stir 10 minutes. Add salt, red pepper, chili powder, onion and both bell peppers. Cook and stir 15 minutes. Add tomato paste and 4 cups stock. Cook 30 minutes; reduce heat to medium. Add red kidney beans; cook an additional 10 minutes. Serve hot!

 

[farmerjan]

Nutria sound like what we call water rats. connibear traps or even leg traps right outside their burrows, staked, will catch them and you can dispose of them. Or a good .22 ..... Can't be much worse than the groundhog population we deal with in the fields here...

 

[NH homesteader]

I don't know if I could bring myself to eat one... Shoot one yes but not eat one!

So DH will be home in the morning!!! I have a killer sinus headache, which makes the rest of my cold not so bad. And his psycho dog went out to pee this morning and took a road trip to my parents' house, so I had to drive up, kiddo and I in our pj's, to fetch her. Thanks dog. She needs a fence this spring.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Not really sure I could eat one either, lol. Might make a nice dog treat? (even though my dogs don't eat rats)

Can't wait to hear your DH's report!