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Friday, September 10, 2021

How To Eat Crow (Literally)

Eating crow is one of those old sayings nobody really knows where it came from, and few people are interested in finding out. There was a time though, that people did really cook and eat crow, and believe it or not crow hunting is still regulated in many states, just like deer hunting and turkey hunting.

If you’ve followed this site for a while, you know I’m not squeamish about cooking up the hunt.  I’ve got plenty of squirrel recipes, a groundhog recipe or two, and I even told y’all a story about the time a friend served us roadkill coyote at a gathering.  Hunt what you eat, eat what you kill, simple enough.

Then I found myself scrolling through our local fish and game website, and I came across crow season…

Crow season?!?!  Really??? That’s a thing?

Honestly, it had never even occurred to me to actually eat crow, let alone that there’d actually be a regulated crow hunting season.  
-WiscoDave
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  1. Bright EyesSeptember 10, 2021 at 1:08 PM

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  2. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2021 at 1:22 PM

    45 years ago we would set up an owl decoy and use an electronic caller to bust crows tearing up some pecan orchards. You only get one chance at them before having to move locations. We would hang the dead crows in plain sight to ward off the others...they really hate that. I stll do the same thing in my backyard when those bastards tear down my suet feeders.

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  3. RaySeptember 10, 2021 at 2:33 PM

    Blackened crow is a delicacy in Wuhan. OTOH they don't eat 'Slimes- YET!

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2021 at 3:03 PM

    In England, crow is also called Humbles and only poor people ate them - hence if you baked them in a pie, eating humble pie meant that you were low on the social scale.

    Phil B

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    1. ChaddSeptember 10, 2021 at 7:46 PM

      Then they would give you 30 Days in the Hole.

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    2. AnonymousSeptember 10, 2021 at 9:48 PM

      That's about enough time to tuna piano.
      Ed

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  5. MikeySeptember 10, 2021 at 11:36 PM

    I've got my Grandpas Johnson crow calls and I've gotten pretty good with them. If there are are crows in the area I can bring them in. I used to spend my summers as a kid prowling around the woods of northern Michigan hunting crows but got so interested in their behavior nowadays I just watch them. Never ate one though. Grandpa hunted them for bounty for spending money when he was a kid.

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  6. waitingForTheStormSeptember 11, 2021 at 8:04 AM

    I used to hunt crows until I decided that their natural hatred of hawks and owls meant that my chickens are safer. I get a few crows nesting in the trees around my property and let them be. I once set out an electronic call for coyotes and got a murder of crows in return. My call has a setting for baby crows in distress, but I have never exercised that option.

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  7. JudySeptember 12, 2021 at 12:56 AM

    If you are hungry...

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