They Are Throwing Away My Food

[big rockpile]

Ok make fun all you want.But I was raised on Wild Greens,Groundhog and Carp,throw in a few other things like Turtle,Crawdads.

Well anyway I've been waiting 14 years to have Groundhogs so I can have something to hunt of size and put meat on my table.Well just now getting Groundhogs around here.And I was hopeing of getting a huntable number.

Found out yesterday my neighbors are putting out poison and killing all they see.

big rockpile

[brownegg]

big rockpile, I know the subject of neighbors has come up before, cause I have the neighbors from hell.

My neighbors have no consideration for anyboby but themselves.

Good thing they have a christion for a neighbor, cause it would be real ugly otherwise.
I'm counting to ten on a daily basis, just to cool down, otherwise I wouldn't even have any neighbors left to deal with.

I wish I had some good advice for you, but neighbors basically suck. Good Luck!

[moonwolf]

Is groundhog what we call woodchuck up here?
I hear pro's and cons about whether they are good to eat, or not.
What do they taste like? When is the best time to eat one?

[shadowwalker]

Yes it is a woodchuck up north. I have now ate them in Wyoming and now in Tennessee. The ones in TN taste alot better. Less "wild " taste in the meat. I guess it's what they ate. Here they get good greens and such all year. I had a green lawn for the two winters here. And alot of other stuff never got brown.

[beorning]

Don't feel too bad. I'm pretty sure groundhogs are a protected species in WI. You can hunt or trap them if you are a land owner, but no killing them on public land or land you don't live on.

I know how you feel about your neighbors cause it's the same here! Different new neighbors bought the land up the creek and down the creek from us. As soon as they did they all started clearing tree's and brush from the creek banks so they could have more pasture land. They also started fertilizing the fields with chicken manure every year. With no tree's and brush the creek banks have caved in and now with added manure and plenty of sun light the creek is full of slime. There is no longer any sunfish or catfish and the crawdads are very, very few. Plus to look at the creek you really don't know if you would want to eat anything out of it anymore.

When I was growing up there were times that the only meat available for us to eat came out of that creek. If we went through hard times today, we wouldn't be able to do that now.

[Tad]

We have lots of woodchucks up here in NY, I usually don't eat them but we shoot a few in the worst damaged areas of our hay fields. The best time to eat them is early summer after they have been eating clover flowers. I find it kinda greasey though.

[MELOC]

with all due sympathies to your lose of food, i wish i had more help in controlling the groundhog population in my neighborhood. they nearly erradicated my strawberries three years in a row. they eat my broccoli, beans and i have even seen them climbing my corn stalks to bend them over so they could get the ears. i normally shoot 8-15 per year. my sister lives next door and likes to watch them...sigh. they have tunneled under the outbuildings and have caused a partial collapse of my garage. my brother had a few tunnel under his swimming pool's concrete patio and he had to repair the damage...twice. i am not one to poison anything, but i will shoot everyone i see anywhere near my house.