how do you prepare your rabbits

[bedrock 16]

I gut rabbits in the field and skin them when I get home some times I hang them for a day. I hang hare with the guts in and out and have done it for as long as a week in the winter and it makes the meat tast completely different.

[Colster 1]

If I'm stalking I gut each one straight away, if I'm lamping we'll typically stop half way through and gut what we have then do the rest at the end of the night.

 

After that they can sit in the fridge with the skins on for a couple of days before skinning, soaking and then sticking in the freezer.

[Halfinch 51]

I gut them in the field, and any for the pot get skined when I get back, the rest for the ferrets get put in the freezer with head and skin on as that is how they are fed to the ferrets.

[Fat-Ferret 857]

I usually gut them before I take them home, But at night I always have a head torch to see what Im doing and make sure the liver looks ok, and theres no tape worm or cyst nonsense in any Im eating, any that do, I cut off an ear so I know its not for cooking.

[Guest RN-Rabbit-Control]

i allways gut same night then prepare next evening think you only hang hares with the guts defo not rabbits though

 

 

Wouldn't like to eat your hare mate if you hang it with thae guts in all that crap inside them??? hang em "yes" Without the guts in

never done it myself either mate just heard years ago that they are hung with em in would not know 100% but like you say not for me either cheers

 

I don't know if it's a regional thing but round by me hares are ALWAYS hung with their guts in.

[Guest RN-Rabbit-Control]

and some i leave with the fur on as it is a natural worming remedy.

 

I think I will stick with Drontal mate.

[TOMO 27,272]

i allways gut same night then prepare next evening think you only hang hares with the guts defo not rabbits though

 

 

Wouldn't like to eat your hare mate if you hang it with thae guts in all that crap inside them??? hang em "yes" Without the guts in

never done it myself either mate just heard years ago that they are hung with em in would not know 100% but like you say not for me either cheers

 

I don't know if it's a regional thing but round by me hares are ALWAYS hung with their guts in.

 

if you go to game dealers hares do have the guts in. the thing thats important is the weather temp.

 

midle of winter when its cold you can gut a rabbit, the next day with no problems. of course its a darnsite easier to do it at night and leave the guts in a field.

 

as for length of time hanging, again if its the midle of winter hang rabbits for 3 to 5 days belive you me they are better for it, and pheasants are best for a week

[watchman 256]

i allways gut same night then prepare next evening think you only hang hares with the guts defo not rabbits though

 

 

Wouldn't like to eat your hare mate if you hang it with thae guts in all that crap inside them??? hang em "yes" Without the guts in

[carl sarg 3]

and some i leave with the fur on as it is a natural worming remedy.

 

I think I will stick with Drontal mate.

 

I read it in alot of books old and new.

[ratty789 0]

i allways gut same night then prepare next evening think you only hang hares with the guts defo not rabbits though

 

 

Wouldn't like to eat your hare mate if you hang it with thae guts in all that crap inside them??? hang em "yes" Without the guts in

never done it myself either mate just heard years ago that they are hung with em in would not know 100% but like you say not for me either cheers

Agree with every one gut, rabbits as soon as poss. My gandmother was a cook in a big estate house in the 30s -40s and they all ways hung for weeks even did them with maggots on !!!!!!!