As some of you know Bud is a budding potato farmer and this year I stuck down a few carroot, leek and lettuce seeds along with a few heads of cabbage and there dother week I went up and the frigging rabbits had done a Mike Tyson on the lettuce, bit all the ears off and chewed them up along with the carrots. I know it was rabbits because what I did was I climbed into the composter that was a new unsoiled one I had just bought and I hid in it for four hours after drilling two half inch holes at eye height to watch the b**tards.
Now, I can't shoot them because I am not allowed to fire a shot in a built up area in Tallaght, although it sometimes seems that almost everyone else can fire at will, or shopkeepers or post office staff, or the wrong people in banks. So I am after making a few snares which is a lot cheaper than buying rols of rabbit fence. Snaring rabbits and skinning them is a lost art in itself and I don't want to snare them unless they are going to be eaten. So basicly I am looking for an outlet like say a Green Part Conference where during their morning coffee break I would arrive with the big long pole over me shoulder and the little bunny rabbits with their legs entwined hanging from it and give a demonstration in skinning them before serving them for lunch. Maybe there are butchers that would take them from me, I wonder duz anyone know anyone at all that would be glad of a few rabbits and I will throw in a head of cabbage or a few spuds as well.
I'd be in need of a few hares but that's a different matter altogether.
If thats all the help I am getting then I think I will get down my Mickey Harte book and hide in the composter for a few hours and jump out every now and then in Laois football gear and frighten the bejayus out of them. I was wondering if I just left them in places wouldn't someone take them, like hang them on the grip bars of the Luas or hang them on bus stops rather than them go to waste.
(http://stonehead.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rabbit01.jpg) Buds great grandfather down in Laois
Shoot one, and hang him up on a cross for the others to see.
didnt work for the romans
Quote from: Cde on July 30, 2010, 11:07:31 AM
didnt work for the romans
:D :D :D
There was a fella there a week or two ago and he shot a crow or a pigeon and hung it up and he was fined 2,000 euro for cruelty.
The local Chinees Take Away have a website so I just emailed them there now to see if they would sell it as chicken curry so I think I might be OK.
i now have a vision of Bud as a cross between thon wan in Father Ted with the "I shot JR" tshirt, and the young un pluckin the geeetar at the start of Deliverance........
jaysus I havent had a rabbit stew in years Bud, there is a friend of herself who keeps rabbits and I am always threatening to get the knife to the little bastards
unfortunately the Butchers or general food trade cant take them unless they are killed in a professional area like a slaughterhouse. Plus they are wild could have all sorts of diseases. Prob fine to eat though as long as you stear clear of the organs.
sure why dont you eat them yourself, i have had rabbit a few times but its years ago.
another alternative is give them to a cat or dogs to eat. They love that.
To quote myself
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Was having lunch in a pub there and looked out the window and to my amazement there was a fella taking boxes and boxes filled with dead rabbits!! out of a van and stacking them up on a trolly for another man standing there. There were dozens and dozens of dead rabbits and this loading went on for about 5-10 minutes and yer man with the trolly wheeled it away down the street. I think he may have been going to the market but what the f**k!! Put me off my food.
Someone eats them
Made me think of this classic choon :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOSseI1hao8
Six months from now, all Bud's lettuce and carrots are gone and ...
(http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu206/Hardyarse/rabbit.jpg)
If there is a hunt near by you the hound keeper will probably be more than happy to take them off your hands.
QuoteIf there is a hunt near by you the hound keeper will probably be more than happy to take them off your hands.
Not being funny Delboy but I couldn't see too many hunts in Tallaght!
Quote from: Banana Man on July 30, 2010, 02:00:30 PM
QuoteIf there is a hunt near by you the hound keeper will probably be more than happy to take them off your hands.
Not being funny Delboy but I couldn't see too many chunts in Tallaght!
Dunno about that.
Rabbit is not worth the bother eating, tastes like chicken but it's that boney it's hard to find a decent bit of meat on it, between that and picking out the lead pellets, you get no enjoyment at all.
Quote from: Bud Wiser on July 30, 2010, 10:44:47 AM
(http://stonehead.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/rabbit01.jpg) Buds great grandfather down in Laois
Which one is your great-grandfather?
Quote from: Banana Man on July 30, 2010, 02:00:30 PM
QuoteIf there is a hunt near by you the hound keeper will probably be more than happy to take them off your hands.
Not being funny Delboy but I couldn't see too many hunts in Tallaght!
There is one every day and night but they use a helicopter with strange flashing blue lights instead of horses and dogs. These are perfectly virus free rabbits raised on Thompson & Morgan Class 1 carrots and Suttons lettuce and they are not bog ditch rabbits like you woukld see falling around the roads with the hunger anywhere else, they are up on a hillside above St Annes GAA pitch. The very best of grub which probably explains why big Joe McNal......... ah no, I wont say that now.
Quote from: Banana Man on July 30, 2010, 02:00:30 PM
QuoteIf there is a hunt near by you the hound keeper will probably be more than happy to take them off your hands.
Not being funny Delboy but I couldn't see too many hunts in Tallaght!
That'll teach me to skim read a post, it does indeed come across as a rather dim suggestion :-[
Bud, I dont suppose you managed to get your hands on a few of those wascally wabbits? If you did can you meet me outside Quinns tommorrow at noon? I need about 20 feet before the kerry game. Cheers ;)
Quote from: Bud Wiser on July 30, 2010, 10:19:40 AM
As some of you know Bud is a budding potato farmer and this year I stuck down a few carroot, leek and lettuce seeds along with a few heads of cabbage and there dother week I went up and the frigging rabbits had done a Mike Tyson on the lettuce, bit all the ears off and chewed them up along with the carrots. I know it was rabbits because what I did was I climbed into the composter that was a new unsoiled one I had just bought and I hid in it for four hours after drilling two half inch holes at eye height to watch the b**tards.
Now, I can't shoot them because I am not allowed to fire a shot in a built up area in Tallaght, although it sometimes seems that almost everyone else can fire at will, or shopkeepers or post office staff, or the wrong people in banks. So I am after making a few snares which is a lot cheaper than buying rols of rabbit fence. Snaring rabbits and skinning them is a lost art in itself and I don't want to snare them unless they are going to be eaten. So basicly I am looking for an outlet like say a Green Part Conference where during their morning coffee break I would arrive with the big long pole over me shoulder and the little bunny rabbits with their legs entwined hanging from it and give a demonstration in skinning them before serving them for lunch. Maybe there are butchers that would take them from me, I wonder duz anyone know anyone at all that would be glad of a few rabbits and I will throw in a head of cabbage or a few spuds as well.
Send them down to Tom..He will "take care" of them for you.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/father-ted/video/series-2/episode-6/bunny-boiler
Quote from: Bud Wiser on July 30, 2010, 10:19:40 AM
As some of you know Bud is a budding potato farmer and this year I stuck down a few carroot, leek and lettuce seeds along with a few heads of cabbage and there dother week I went up and the frigging rabbits had done a Mike Tyson on the lettuce, bit all the ears off and chewed them up along with the carrots. I know it was rabbits because what I did was I climbed into the composter that was a new unsoiled one I had just bought and I hid in it for four hours after drilling two half inch holes at eye height to watch the b**tards.
Now, I can't shoot them because I am not allowed to fire a shot in a built up area in Tallaght, although it sometimes seems that almost everyone else can fire at will, or shopkeepers or post office staff, or the wrong people in banks. So I am after making a few snares which is a lot cheaper than buying rols of rabbit fence. Snaring rabbits and skinning them is a lost art in itself and I don't want to snare them unless they are going to be eaten. So basicly I am looking for an outlet like say a Green Part Conference where during their morning coffee break I would arrive with the big long pole over me shoulder and the little bunny rabbits with their legs entwined hanging from it and give a demonstration in skinning them before serving them for lunch. Maybe there are butchers that would take them from me, I wonder duz anyone know anyone at all that would be glad of a few rabbits and I will throw in a head of cabbage or a few spuds as well.
Send them to Warrenpoint.
FOXES
Jaysus, memories of going shootin with me father and sometimetimes the feckers wouldnt be dead and yed have to finish them off be hand.
Bring them home and hang them on theback of the shed door for a bit then me grandfather would skin and clean them out and it'd be rabbit stew for the dinner.
The pellets were a hoor alright.
Thered be feck all up to that sort of stuff now. If the supermarkets shut down we'd all starve.