Well honestly most days, just the possibility of going out to the store and running into someone I know is terrifying enough. Besides which, literally the only thing that I can get in the states that I cannot get here is the freshwater lobsters. (I’m sure that there are other things, but I’m usually pretty satisfied with what I’ve got.)
I wouldn’t exactly call the lobster breeding my dream, more of a scheme. I just like exotic food. My dreams are more like having 2 weeks of solitude without having to speak to a human face to face, possibly at all.
@foggygoofball there is an alternative to lobsters, when our big aquarium (integrated into the wall) got empty, we tought about the next animal that should go in there. I calculated the maximum space needed for the optimum yield of scorpions There are some nice meaty big boys. And after heating scorpion poison is deactivated. Saddly the scorpion breeding farm lost against a new space for the coffee mashine….
And about the taste, meat always tastes like the food the animal eats. Therefore if you feed your scorpions seafood, they will taste like lobster.
meat always tastes like the food the animal eats.
@genesis this is very true, here we have a chicken-like bird called a Grouse. The ones that roam the grasslands are delicious and nutty. The ones from area with dense stands of coniferous trees like pines taste like eating a Christmas tree.
The same is true of fish, bottom feeders taste like the mud they filter feed on.
I have eaten catfish that tasted good one time, but it was definitely due to the preparation rather than the meat itself.
@foggygoofball had catfish two times, one before the winter. It was very fatty and tasted horrible. One in the spring. Very lean and no fat anymore, tasted amazing. The waterquallity also reflected in the meat there.
And i had many rabbits, the cheap ones tasted like chicken. Because they got the same mass roduced food as chicken do. The ones from private breeders (including myself) tasted good thanks ti the greens they had. The ones from my unkle tasted great, because he gave them pellets containing herbs. And the best i ever had was a roadkill a friend made, young rabbit in the spring. He ate only the best herbs his hole life. Never had meat as amazing and i fear i will never have something as great again….
@genesis I’ve long wanted to get into rabbit breeding, it’s one of my favorite meats, but very few people here eat it, so it’s really expensive. I just don’t have the space to do it the way I want.
Have you heard of a rabbit-tractor? It’s just long triangular cage made of wire mesh that you put in the field, once a day you rotate it onto the next face. The rabbits eat all the grass and other plants and fertilize the soil.
Basically just a way to control grazing.
@foggygoofball nah, i just let my rabbits roam in the garden instead. The ones i got from somewhere always hide behind the bushes. Specially when the dog came to play with them.
But the ones i got from my uncle (competetive rabbit breeder) where different, they chased my cat and dog away and played with me. (okay the dog also played, she just tought “okay now i run away and you chase me”) – the reason, fear in a rabbit disquallifies them from competitions. That’s why that part is bread out of them early on!
Oh and once i had a blue gogant female and a dwarf male rabbit. Once he understood that the flesh mountain is female, hebdid not leave her. However one day after she died (saddly ill, no meal for me….) he was gone…. never saw him again.
