I hear they are good bar-b-qued [for real no joke]. Rabbit i dont remember, ill see if i can find my great grandmas' recipie she cooks it the best ive had
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I just posted the same thing to the Rabbit section, but I have a bunch of recipies for squirrel, rabbit and duck....etc.. ;D
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Post by Kate Marden on May 18, 2004 19:02:33 GMT -5
Hi gang,
My tiercel harris took it into his head to hunt ground squirrels this March and got bit in the tarsus and on the pad under toe #4. The leg has healed but the toe, tho' 'healed', still doesn't work. I put him on my glove, make mouse noises and all toes clamp down hard except #4. My vet and I are still trying to decide whether to open along the tendon and see if there was damage beyond the wound site (none was visable at the site). And, then again, maybe it is just time he is needing.
If you experience squirrel folk have any kernels of wisdom in this regard, I would be glad to hear them. Also, any ideas of where I can locate patterns for chaps? North woods want's a pretty penny for theirs. Even tho' we mostly hunt jack rabbits, we hunt in places shared by squirrels as well and I would rather be safe(r) than have him be injured like this again.
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Just a thought but when I played football the trainer used a product called second skin and also called it moleskin. Their are a lot of items the medical field uses to protect the skin and I think one of these items might give a modicum of protection to the feet of our raptors.
I also see a day when we might be using a slip on glove made of woven kevlar similar to the police search gloves that are puncture and cut resistant. The gloves that I use are form fitting and very flexible so I bet a slip on cover could be made for the larger raptors like the HH and the Red tail.
The company listed below could even come up with something based on the needs of the falconer.
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Hi Kate, By the #4 toe I am guesing you mean the little toe. This is where the problem will be. As a bite on the bottom is a sure indicator that the flexor tendon has been severed. The extensor tendon runs along the top of the toe. It seems to fit in with the fact that she is not able to close that toe. Surgery is needed to correct this. It will take about 8-10 weeks to regain use of the toe after surgery. They will have to open the toe and attach the to severed ends of the tendon together....If they have big enough pieces to work with. My sponsors bird took a nasty bite to the #4 last season and it severed the extensor tendon. The only reason the Vet could fix it is because the bite happened up high on the toe where the tendon is widest makeing it easy to work with. It is possible to fix so ask your vet if it is worth trying to get in there as I don't know the details of your Vets raptor experience. Your other option is to just ignore it as long as she is not having any problems keeping the toe held out( again this is assuming that it is the little toe) If it was the #2 or big front toe then I might have more worries.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion................ and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
Yes, #4 is the little toe. My vet went back in on the 26th, opening the side of the toe to get a better view. Both tendons are intact, but there was allot of scar tissue on the side of the toe, wrapping underneath. So that has been scraped off and we are now doing the physical therapy. I am fortunate to have such a good bird as he is obviously extremely uncomfortable and still, after some gandy-dancing, allows me to bend his toe. Right now, due to the bandage, I can only bend the toe where it meets the foot. I go back to the vet this Wednesday to do more intense p.t. Poor Raoul.
Great! I'm glad to hear that the tendon is intact! This should heal quite well then!. ;D
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion................ and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
While flipping through my little state hunting reg book yesterday, i noticed that squirrel season runs from May 15th to the end of February in my state. Do you, or any one you know, do any squirrel hawking in the summer?
I don't know of any...Doesn't mean it doesn't happen though. I stopped hawking due to the heat, foliage in the trees and all the nasty poison ivy etc... If i could get away with it I would still be hawking those little tree rats. My bird is moulting so fast that I don't think that she would be at peak performance with only three tail feathers left. In the county I'm in the season runs year round. Out east the have a season similar to yours. I hunted my bird well into April when it just got to hot and miserable to keep going
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines "Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion................ and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."