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| Cottontails - Hare - Swamp bunnies | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 13 2011, 07:23 PM (1,238 Views) | |
| FARMBOY1 | Jan 13 2011, 07:23 PM Post #1 |
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Top Dog!
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Got to thinkin about rabbit huntin today & the thought crossed my mind about the diff rabbits there are to hunt. You guys in the northeast that have Snowshoe Hare do they taste any different than your cottontails do when you fry them up? Do the Hare have different eating habits than the cottontail? Do hare & cottontails co-exist in same area? Do they ever cross breed? And you guys down south that have the Swampbunnies do they taste any different than your cottontails? And same question - do swampers & cottontails co-exist in same area or ever crossbreed? All we have here is cottontails & this is all I have hunted with the exception of a Jackrabbit hunt I was on when I was a kid. That was really fun. Those Jacks can lay their ears back & really run! When my cousin was a kid her tame rabbits got out of there pen & ran wild out in their grove around their farm & the tame rabbits crossed with the wild cottontails. Those crossbreeds didn't last long as they were easier for fox & other predators to catch. Edited by FARMBOY1, Jan 13 2011, 07:25 PM.
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| Big Ronnie | Jan 13 2011, 07:32 PM Post #2 |
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Wendel we mostly have cotton tails around the fields but once you get close to the lower woods land you begin to find the swamp rabbit. I know for a fact that cotton tails and the swamp rabbits is great in gravy with plenty of green onions over rice or 2 big cat headed bisquits. A swamp rabbit has twice the meat on him as the cotton tail...........Big Ronnie |
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| d.bobo | Jan 13 2011, 09:23 PM Post #3 |
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We have swampers and cottontails here in south arkansas .The swampers are almost twice as big their meat is a little darker than the cottontails but still good they are mostly in the lower lands but I have found both in the same thickets .I have never seen one that looked crossed. |
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| c brown | Jan 13 2011, 10:37 PM Post #4 |
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Good friend of mine was stationed in California or Arizona. When he finally got a week or so leave him and one of his buddies went rabbit hunting. Shot a whole mess of jackrabbits. He told me they went thru a lot of trouble cleaning and cooking those things for nothing. Said they didn't taste good at all. Something about the brush and desert grass they ate. They talk about cane cutters in Louisiana, is that the same as a swamp rabbit? |
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Creig Brown bay2long@yahoo.com Bonifay, Fl 850 956 2408 850 768 0019 | |
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| Oakhill | Jan 14 2011, 10:58 AM Post #5 |
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Treeing Easy Game
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The different types of rabbits and hare do not cross breed, just as a fox and a dog will not cross breed. Also a tame rabbit and a wild rabbit will not cross breed. You will find the swamp rabbits in and around creeks and swamp land and also in the woodlands in the same areas as the cottontails. |
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| FARMBOY1 | Jan 14 2011, 11:22 AM Post #6 |
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Creig- You reminded me of a story I once read in an old "OUTDOOD LIFE" magazine about some guys in Louisianna huntin "Canecutters" with their Beagles. I had forgotten about that term. Now you got me to wonderin if "Swampers" & "Canecutters" are the same rabbits. I think I can understand why those western Jack rabbits didn't taste very good. A lot of times whatever animals eat can have an effect on the flavor of their meat. The jack rabbit that I shot when I was a kid tasted good but you got to remember it was corn fed living in this part of the country. |
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| Silver Bear | Jan 14 2011, 12:51 PM Post #7 |
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Where we used to live over in eastern NY along the Vermont line there was a hill behind our house that had both, cottontail and hare, the hare seemed to stick to the higher ground in the hemlock thickets and the cottontails in the swamps and hardwood thickets, thornapples, etc. Never did see one that I thought was crossbred. As far as taste, if it's wild game is all excellent. |
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