Opossum Death By Steer

I would of stopped then put it on the grill good food opposum

 

Last Spring I hit a mother duck with about 6 ducklings on i-15 in salt lake city.

I saw em, but couldnt move out of the way due to traffic.

I aimed the truck so that they would have all gone underneath. It would have worked, but the mother tried to fly away at the last second and impacted my grill.

I think the ducklings survived at least initially, although orphaned they wouldnt have lasted long.

 

My kill count thus far:

-Squirrel
-3 crows
-Field mouse (unconfirmed)

 

Possums scavenge for food and will eat just about anything including road kill or whatever. My grandfather said what they used to do was catch them alive and put them under a box/cage for a week or so. Feed them ears of dried corn on the cob to sort of clean their system out of any of the nastiness they had been eating. Still didn't sound appetizing to me but he grew up in the great depression and some people back then went hungry.

 

That's what I recall too RC.....We used to go down to the RR tracks at night, shine the rails and look for eyes.....The dumb critters would climb over one rail, but be too stupid to climb back out....It was simply a matter of running them down the center of the rails, they'd stop and play dead, just grinning all the while....We'd pick-em up and put 'em in a feed sack....We'd get $2-3 each as I recall (early '70's).....Folks would put them in a pen and feed 'em corn meal and milk mostly, with some veggies and apples too.....After a bit, they'd skin 'em and cook 'em....I never ate one, but folks said they tasted just like pork....

 

Two wild turkeys... no, not the bottled ones.