How many of you do it? I have an aquaintance that keeps talking about how great beaver meat tastes. He even had a chart showing its nutritional value. Very healthy, tasty, and high in protein is what he says. He showed me pictures of him preparing it. I have to say, it looked like a delicacy the way he dispayed it.

Make sure they come out of clean water.beaver can live in some god aweful places.

yes taste great makes great jerky

Very good stuff.

Use to eat it quite often until I learned it's VERY high in cholesterol.

Very good eating. Just stick to medium sized ones. Also if they have a strong castor smell when skinning it probably a good idea not to eat them.

I eat most of the kits and sub adults I catch. Use the big mature ones for bait

they are good, just make sure they are fully cooked

Andrew Stanley cooked up some beaver tail on youtube a couple of years ago. I gave it a shot and was very surprised how good it was. A beavers tail comes in two parts: the flat scaley paddle and the meaty fur covered chunk in front of it. l chop off the scaley tail except for about 1.5 " . The whole thing is washed well and goes in the crockpot.. Add 2 tablespoons of salt, 1 teaspoon basil, 1 teaspoon rosemary, 1 teaspoon black pepper, 4-6 crushed garlic. Set crockpot on hi for 1 hours, reduce to low for 3-4 more hours. Remove from pot and pull off the remaining scaley tail. At this point I usually use two forks and pull the meat from the bone. The fatty tail is diced up and added to the meat. At this point you can do what you want: favorite seasoning, sauce etc. Good on hard rolls. Surprisingly tender.

Now that the weather is straightening out, I intend to use some rub and put it on the smoker for about 30 min.and then sauce it.

Slow cooking will tenderize just about any cut of meat, so I eat the big ones as well as the little ones. I did a 70# 2 months ago. All the same to me. No taste difference. Very tender

Ive served this to coworkers and told them it was beef. No arguments

I don't eat it. But got a few ppl around here I give all mine too after skinned. They really like it. And than at the annual game feed I supplied some that got made into stew and it all got ate. Everyone said it taste very similar to beef

I had it a few times. It's pretty good. Sorta like roast beef but sweeter.

I’ve had some of Sniper BB’s beaver jerky. Good stuff

A hearty beaver stew is hard to beat. Lived on it all winter and never got tired of it. It has three times the omega 3's that beef has so it is very good for you.

I don't care how big the animal is but I like to take the ones that have a nice fat rind as they are the healthiest ones. Make sure not to cross contaminate the meat with anything that might have castor on it.

Like trapper20 said, make sure it's fully cooked.

Couldn't disagree more. I've eaten many a beav down in MS that came out of some of the dirtiest swamp water you can imagine that tasted great. Meat taste is directly related to the animals diet. Exactly why grain finished beef tastes so good.

great picture there beaverpeeler,its the best stew one can make in these parts. everybody cleans it up when we make it up here.we only use fresh,one nite no soakers.

I have taken beaver out of mine tailings ponds,and I have also taken beaver out of sewage ponds,You eat them plueger.I will pass.

Just like any other animal or fish - decide when taken from clean living or filthy living. Some beef and pork feedlots are quite filthy and some are great. Same with some dairy farms. Personally I enjoy eating beaver.

I love eating beaver that I clean and prepare, castor is strong and you need to be
Careful with your knife work.

Just slightly aged, hung for a few days in the right temp makes them
Even better. Unlike was mentioned in the earlier post, I like to eat the back straps and the hind
Quarters medium-medium rare. Just salt pepper and butter, and of course a little onion too.

I use the front half for roasting and stuff the cavity with the veggies, season and roast at 300
Until falls off the bone.

Now that looks tasty! GOOD JOB!