Taste Of Meat?

[oneshot 1]

I'm looking into the future. If our forest becomes predominantly Pine will Wild Game have a Pine taste?

I know when we lived in the mountains locals justified poaching because meat tasted like Sage.

oneshot 

[Dutch]

1 hour ago, oneshot 1 said:

I'm looking into the future. If our forest becomes predominantly Pine will Wild Game have a Pine taste?

I know when we lived in the mountains locals justified poaching because meat tasted like Sage.

oneshot 

Major feeders of hogs have fed them chicken litter for years.  Does your bacon taste like chicken poop?

[tjm]

Locals were feeding chicken litter to beef cattle back in the '70s and I suppose that's still happening wherever both are raised. 

But what in the world would make you think the forests would become mostly pine? Scruby oaks are much easier to establish. And yes enough acorns do affect the taste of meat.

And other than grouse, what game would feed mostly on pine? I usually find pine groves pretty barren of game.

[oneshot 1]

12 minutes ago, tjm said:

Locals were feeding chicken litter to beef cattle back in the '70s and I suppose that's still happening wherever both are raised. 

But what in the world would make you think the forests would become mostly pine? Scruby oaks are much easier to establish. And yes enough acorns do affect the taste of meat.

And other than grouse, what game would feed mostly on pine? I usually find pine groves pretty barren of game.

The MDC is saying Oaks have a disease going through them but I've been seeing many dead ones. Last year MDC said water them. Then they said it was just older trees. 

I won't see it but the way it looks we could go back to Pine.

oneshot 

[tjm]

It'll be grass again. In 1800 much/most of the Ozarks was savanna  and when Schoolcraft made his expedition across the area, he had to carry a pack-horse load of wood with him to ensure that they would have camp cooking wood, I think he mentioned three days of travel between wood sources as he traveled the Ozarks. Timber grew when settlers stopped the wildfires.

[Terrierman]

I know for a fact that you do not want to feed hogs a diet of trout guts.  It's been tried.

[oneshot 1]

I know a Bear that has been feeding on Salmon isn't fit to eat.

oneshot 

[fishinwrench]

4 hours ago, oneshot 1 said:

I know a Bear that has been feeding on Salmon isn't fit to eat.

oneshot 

What do you prefer your bears to eat?   

Blueberries and humans ? 😅

[oneshot 1]

9 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

What do you prefer your bears to eat?   

Blueberries and humans ? 😅

Salmon gives them a nasty taste. 

If they haven't been eating Salmon they are very good. 

oneshot 

[Johnsfolly]

I have only eaten bear meat from bears killed in PA and NY. Blueberries made up a big part of their diet. The meat was like beef but a bit sweeter. You do have to cook near meat until well done since trichinosis.or.other diseases are still prevalent.