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How hungry would you have to be before you would eat a crow/raven etc.? Some of them are really big!

we have a huge crow thats been hanging out at the horse's water latley ...

I'm am curios to see what folks say here...

For some reason I don't think Eating Crow would be a good thing to do.

Mildly hungry. I'd rather eat four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. It's quite a dainty dish, especially with a pocket full of rye.

Too many fat geese and ducks around here for me to seriously consider eating crow. Besides, I already have some chickens, and will get rabbits in a hurry if the situation warrants. But even that is at least plan "K", with other preps comprising plans A-J. Hard to imagine all my preps to have fallen short to such a degree where I would be eating wild birds of prey, but then I've never been really hungry before.

That you are asking this question makes me think that you may not have your own preps in order. I recommend buying an additional 10-20lb each of dried beans and rice (dirt cheap!), along with a few more cans of :spam4:

The expression - "eating crow" - is based on reality.........the following is one of four recipes I have from around the time of WW2 - now, I don't know the background, meaning that I do not know if people ate crow cause they couldn't find chicken, or couldn't afford other foods - but they certainly ate crow!

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A restaurant in �stre Bol�rne, an archipelago on the outer fringe of the Oslo Fjord, has decided on menu innovation to attract new diners.

Manager Rolf Bjarne Sund is not sure if the new additions of crow and seagull to the menu will be a definite hit with visitors, but hopes they will give the rare items a try, newspaper T�nsberg Blad reports.

"It has something to do with the feeling that this (crow) is not a clean bird," Sund admitted. "But it is incredibly good. It tastes like chicken with a hint of game. And it is safe to eat," Sund told the newspaper.

The restaurant has already advertised their 'Christmas buffet with a difference', and the chef has prepared both crow and seagull in a variety of sauces. Sund checked long ago that it was legal to hunt the common birds.

Sund has other plans as well, and needs to double visitors to the island in order to have enough overnight stays and tourist income. Trout fishing, a skating rink and a mountaineering wall are a few of the coming attractions.

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CROW AND MUSHROOM STEW
From a WW II cookbook

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3 crows
1 Tbsp lard/shortening
1 pint stock or gravy
2 Tbsp cream
1/2 cup mushrooms
salt and pepper
cayenne pepper
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1. Clean and cut crows into small portions and let them cook a short time in
the lard/shortening in a saucepan, being careful not to brown them.
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2. Add to the contents of the pan, the stock or gravy, and salt, pepper and
cayenne to taste. Simmer 1 hour, or until tender.
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3. Add mushrooms, simmer 10 minutes more and then stir in cream. Arrange
the mushrooms around the crows on a hot platter.
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I know nothing about crows. The local equivalent is the mudhen, a species of duck, so maybe you can use our recipe for mudhen.

First wash the bird, but don't try to pluck it. Mix mud and pack it into the feathers as thoroughly as you can. Mud from the canal (same canal where you shot the bird) is preferred. Bake at 350 degrees for about two hours or until the mud is dry and hard. Break off the mud. The feathers will stick to the mud. Now throw away the bird and eat the mud.

And that is THE BEST way to eat mudhen!

Ever noticed how smart those crows are?

Walk out of the house with a gun and they scatter, quick.

Walk out of the house empty handed and they dont even notice you.

Ugh! I love crows. Very clever birds. Wiser to keep a few around for 'waste disposal' purposes than to kill. The crows here do a good job of making sure I never have to put any scraps that might attract bears in my compost bin.

Murder a crow? :wink:

I saw people in Ecuador eating Guina Pigs. Andrew Zimmern said they were very tasty. I guess I could eat any muscle tissue if hungry enough.

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Originally Posted by Conk (Post 1360092)

Murder a crow? :wink:

I saw people in Ecuador eating Guina Pigs. Andrew Zimmern said they were very tasty. I guess I could eat any muscle tissue if hungry enough.

LOL... A flock of crows actually called a murder of crows...

Relative to its body size, the crow brain is the same size as
the chimpanzee brain.

Everyone knows apes use simple tools like twigs, Dr. Emery said, selecting
different ones for different purposes. But New Caledonian crows create more
complex tools with their beaks and feet. They trim and sculpture twigs to
fashion hooks for fetching food. They make spears out of barbed leaves,
probing under leaf detritus for prey.

In a laboratory, when a crow named Betty was given metal wires of various
lengths and a four-inch vertical pipe with food at the bottom, she chose a
four-inch wire, made a hook and retrieved the food.

A crow was the first bird Noah sent out after the 40 days/nights of rain ended...he sent it because they are the smartest birds (largest hypothalamus of all birds - section of brain responsible for reasoning) anyways...after waiting a few days, the crow never returned, so that was when Noah sent the dove...legends say that when Noah finally landed on Mt. Ararat, the crow was there to greet him...Noah looked at the bird and said...why didn't you come back...the crow said...stupid human...I'm a crow, not a dove!

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Originally Posted by TechGuy (Post 1359526)

Ever noticed how smart those crows are?

Walk out of the house with a gun and they scatter, quick.

Walk out of the house empty handed and they dont even notice you.

I know exactly what you mean! I've been crow hunting only once in my life. We were living in the Texas panhandle and after a fruitless morning of hunting sandhill crane around Muleshoe, my Dad was going to teach me how to hunt crow. Score: Birds 2, humans 0. I won't bore anyone with the details, but it was an embarrassing experience! I have a lot of respect for corvid intelligence!

If I get hungry enough, I will eat anything God made out of meat, short of humans. But then again......

i would rather kill myself a fat murder of crows, feed them to the neighbors dog, then eat the DOG.
Me big man... TOP OF FOOD CHAIN.

I prefer not to eat scavengers, but hey. If it gets hungry, I'll eat you if I have to.

Didn't Fez, on That 70s Show, kill a bunch of "Black Phesants" on a hunting trip only to later discover they were crows that were carrying the souls of dead people.

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Originally Posted by TechGuy (Post 1359526)

Ever noticed how smart those crows are?

Walk out of the house with a gun and they scatter, quick.

Walk out of the house empty handed and they dont even notice you.

I don't know if they are corvids, but the cowbirds we have all over here in DFW, (i'm pretty sure you have them in Houston as well...) are plenty smart that way, too.
If you pick up a rock or acorn and cock your arm like you're going to throw it at them they will hop off. If you don't have a rock in your hand, but cock it back in a bluff they will just stare at you. That's pretty darned observant!

I have noticed this behaviour also, moreso with ravens, and particularily with the presence of a gun. I have seen them fly in a line and go straight away over top of me, but when I have a gun as soon as they see you they have a little in-flight seizure and re-direct. Very observant indeed.

Eating omnivorous scavengers is never a good idea, but crows and ravens are special to me, so I'd be reluctant to kill them anyway. Given how bright they are, though, it might be easy to kill one, and not so easy afyer that--as others have said, they're very bright creatures.

True story.

When the ex and I were starting out we lived in a travel trailer out in the sticks. One day I stepped out and was amazed to find a raven standing on my truck and unafraid of me. Curious, I walked toward the bird which just sat there watching me watch him. I came to the conclusion that he must have escaped and was someones pet or that he had been turned loose because he was causing problems. He would eat out of my hand and sit on my shoulder, all of the regular bird stuff. I would have kept him but there was one problem. He (she *shrug*) was intensely jealous of my newborn son. I think the bird would have plucked the boys eyes out if the opportunity was presented. In the end, the ex took him to the humane society. The society claimed they would teach him how to live off the land again. I think he would have made a hell of a pet if I could have kept him.