Do you eat Northern Shovelers?
12-31-2007, 02:19 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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Do you eat Northern Shovelers?
I hear Northern Shovelers eat in pretty crummy places and may be unhealthy for human consumption. Is this true? What is your opinion. If it is just a matter of aesthetics, I'm going to eat this bird (at least this first time, I'm a quick learner) I shot this past weekend. If it is of questionable healthfulness to eat a Northern Shoveler (aka Spoonbill), I'm going to throw it out. What is your opinion?
01-01-2008, 04:23 PM
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Typical Buck
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RE: Do you eat Northern Shovelers?
ORIGINAL: Alsatian
I hear Northern Shovelers eat in pretty crummy places and may be unhealthy for human consumption. Is this true? What is your opinion. If it is just a matter of aesthetics, I'm going to eat this bird (at least this first time, I'm a quick learner) I shot this past weekend. If it is of questionable healthfulness to eat a Northern Shoveler (aka Spoonbill), I'm going to throw it out. What is your opinion?
I hear Northern Shovelers eat in pretty crummy places and may be unhealthy for human consumption. Is this true? What is your opinion. If it is just a matter of aesthetics, I'm going to eat this bird (at least this first time, I'm a quick learner) I shot this past weekend. If it is of questionable healthfulness to eat a Northern Shoveler (aka Spoonbill), I'm going to throw it out. What is your opinion?
it is true. i live in california and was looking at fish and games website and they had aconsumption advisory for ducks in the county i grew up in. the advisory suggested not to eat morethan 4 oz. of sertain birds in a two week period due to parasites
01-02-2008, 06:40 PM
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RE: Do you eat Northern Shovelers?
It depends on where you hunt and where the ducks have been. If it has been sittin on the rivers and ponds and so forth it is going to be very strong but if it has been sitting and eating out of flooded grain fields and so forth for a while it will not be as strong.
01-02-2008, 06:54 PM
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Fork Horn
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RE: Do you eat Northern Shovelers?
Most of the ones that I have taken have been off the playa lakes in West Texas. Some of the tanks were near old mines (copper, iron, salt). They've all been in the central flyway.
The puddle ducks from the same ponds and areas were fine. We have no way of knowing how long they'd been on the ponds/rivers, etc or even in the area. The geese have been fine too.
I stopped shooting divers all together as a result. Used to make my old dog so mad, "it's a duck, shoot it!"
The puddle ducks from the same ponds and areas were fine. We have no way of knowing how long they'd been on the ponds/rivers, etc or even in the area. The geese have been fine too.
I stopped shooting divers all together as a result. Used to make my old dog so mad, "it's a duck, shoot it!"