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TRKakaCatWhisperer posted this 29 October 2011

I've trapped 18 skunks this summer (in town, all within 30' of my house).

Anyone crazy enough to have tried cooking one?

(I did joke about my entry to the chili cook-off at work as being Pole cat #18 chili).

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tturner53 posted this 06 May 2015

Long ago on a chicken farm far away my future bride and I lived in an old farmhouse in the boonies. One night her idiot dog wanted out real bad. Came barreling back in after a close range hit from a skunk and jumped up on our bed! It took MONTHS to get rid of the smell. Permeates and penetrates everything, to stay. We bought a small fortune of tomato juice to wash the dog and our clothes even. She was a leggy looker in a classy restaurant at that time. She smelled like skunk! I smelled like skunk. Time is the only real remedy.

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Jeff Michel posted this 05 May 2015

Old Coot is right on target, Hydrogen Peroxide is about the only thing that will eliminate the smell. I have a pack of very slow learning dogs and every spring is a kind of ritual around here with the dogs and skunks having a meet and greet session in my front yard. And yes, the first place they head is in the house. I have had notable success by aiming at the base of the skull where the spine connects. Take your time and pick your shot, they rarely charge. They seldom spray even a minute quantity if you do your part. As to eating, very lean reminds me texture wise to muskrat or squirrel. Mild flavor, I will use it as a substitute in beef hash. As with any omnivore, cook it completely +148F internal. It is definitely worth a try. As to concerns with rabies, any mammal can contract rabies.

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Ed Harris posted this 02 May 2015

Cherokee buddy of mine from east Texas also recommends the blanket trick, then decapitate skunk with axe befire it can spray. But Frank Marshall said foxes won't go near skunk carcass,as bait, and they know!

73 de KE4SKY In Home Mix We Trust From the Home of Ed's Red in "Almost Heaven" West Virginia

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Goatwhiskers posted this 30 April 2015

Can't say much about cooking skunk, but I do know a couple of Aggies that fried a buzzard for a roommate. The story does not end well. GW

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oscarflytyer posted this 23 March 2015

Skunk - never, and doubt I would, but guess I might try it if it were in front of me...

BBQ 'coon - yes and it was very good over rice as long as you skimmed all the fat/grease off the top! It had been slow cooked in a crock pot for who knows how long. Would eat it again - it was rich and good

Know a lot of guys in upper E TN that eat groundhog. Assume it is very similar to 'coon.

Also eaten fried Rocky Mtn Oysters (bull) and must admit it was some of the best tenderloin I ever ate! And even better, my Mom tricked me into eating it when I was a kid. I had eaten snapping turtle and liked it, and when I asked why the Mtn Oysters were round, she told me they used an ice cream scooper to scopp the meat out of the turtle shell. After I went back for seconds she told me what it really was! Still good and would eat them again!

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Goatwhiskers posted this 20 March 2015

I've heard folks talk about recycling road-kill, quite often still fit for consumption. Let me assure you that any skunk that has not moved for 24 hours is NOT fit to eat! GW

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Coydog posted this 09 March 2015

I get skunks in my traps and I just shoot them and then come back after check the traps in that one area and pick it up and take it home and hang in a outside shed for about 2 days and then take it down celler and skin it with gloves and put up the skin and sell it.I am a use to the smell so it dose not matter to me.The market gose by the stripe for what the price the fur will go for.

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Brodie posted this 02 March 2015

Apparently, here in AZ near Flagstaff we have some very hungry coyotes. There are a couple who make the rounds every day. At least I see their tracks after a fresh snow. And, I have had them eat or at least skin the skunk carcasses thrown over my neighbors fence.

You can kill them with a .177 pellet to the head when trapped. We had an invasion of ground squirrels a couple of years ago which was why we were trapping, and the skunks were by-catch. For a long time a female moved in under my shed and got the labs while she was foraging in the back yard. After the first couple of times the dogs learned to get the skunks attention while the other lab came in from the side. I picked up a lot of dead skunks in my yard, and they all went over the fence into the back forty (ok not acres). Then the ground squirrels moved under the shed and real problems started. Brodie

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TRKakaCatWhisperer posted this 02 March 2015

Even after trapping over 175 (career total) I've not yet been sprayed (thanks! Lord!) One fellow who has 5 dogs (always into skunks) recommended Dawn mixed with baking soda and water followed by hydrogen peroxide - therefore I agree with you! Pellet rifle? NO. I've hit too many woodchucks too many times with no effect. (until I can get a .30 or .45 caliber pellet rifle). Nothing here will touch a skunk left out in the yard for a day or two.

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Brodie posted this 02 March 2015

2,1,1,dipropyl ethy,amine is considered to be the worst smelling chemical in the world. It also smells remarkedly like skunk spray.

The oderiferousness is best treated with:

One quart H2O2 or hydrogen peroxide one third cup or baking soda one tbsp of liquid soap.

Mix together in a large bowl and apply liberally to the affected pet or area of the body or clothing. It is what my Vet recommends and works remarkably well. Otherwise you are looking at at leas three months for the smell to go away.

Brodie

PS A pellet rifle works quite well . Almost as good as a piece or rebar. If you shoot them in the head they WILL SPRAY,, or at least shoot a blob out their business end. The coyotes around here eat them if you throw the carcasses out into the back lot.

B.E.Brickey

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TRKakaCatWhisperer posted this 01 March 2015

Hmmm. 75 skunks since last JUNE (2014). Might just have to skin one out.

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30shtur posted this 25 September 2012

I think the Govt serves it as MRE meal #36

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30shtur posted this 25 September 2012

I think the Govt serves it as MRE meal #36

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30shtur posted this 25 September 2012

I think the Govt serves it as MRE meal #36

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alleyyooper posted this 05 August 2012

Your welcome. Like the saying goes waste not want not. Maybe you would likeit french fried?

http://deep-fried.food.com/recipe/french-fried-skunk-75396

:D Al

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TRKakaCatWhisperer posted this 04 August 2012

Al - thanks! the roast skunk looked a little more authentic. I'm up to 25 skunks this year (20 last year) all in my back or side yards within 50 feet of the house.

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alleyyooper posted this 04 August 2012

I get them in a live trap all the time because they are messing with my bees. Creek isn't deep enough to drown them in. Usally use a blue plastic tarp to cover them up load in the wheel borrow and take to the field with my 12 ga.. Once in the field I lay the shot gun next to the cage, open the cage and grab the shot gun once they are out a bit I shoot them. I found out once when I had forgot the trap and saw a skunk in it as I went out the drive. When I returned a couple hour latter the skunk was dead. I finall figured out that the bees who are not crtazy about the color black and the skunk kept moving so the bees kept stinging it to death.

Recipes here.

http://www.cooks.com/rec/search/0,1-0,skunk,FF.html

Their are others on the net also.

:D Al

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TRKakaCatWhisperer posted this 12 June 2012

Pigslayer wrote: TRK wrote: I WOULD shoot 'em, but I live in town. I like the 20' 2X4.

I live in town & I use sub-sonic ammo. LOL Oh, by the way . . . all you guys are crazy! LOL You're a good judge of character!

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6pt-sika posted this 12 June 2012

Pigslayer wrote: TRK wrote: I WOULD shoot 'em, but I live in town. I like the 20' 2X4.

I live in town & I use sub-sonic ammo. LOL Oh, by the way . . . all you guys are crazy! LOL Heck i would think a decent 22 cal pellet rifle would do the job within 10-15 yards also .