are shovelers eatable?

[Cephous]

Rob,
I wish for Pintails.

[Wildfowler]

I don't know too many who would ever turn their nose up at eating a Blue Wing Teal.

There're darned near the same bird. More closely related than any other waterfowl. A BWT is really like a miniature shoveler. The have the exact same feeding habits. Both seek out the shallowest, stagnant looking water they can find. They both love sewage lagoons, etc.

That being said, I won't eat either one of them.

[Caller1]

Shovelers are as good as most any duck.

[Wingman]

A BWT is really like a miniature shoveler. The have the exact same feeding habits.

That is true. People will break their necks to shoot blue wings and then scoff at a shoveler.

Both species are as sharp as a sack of wet mice.

[pntailhntr]

Wildfowler!! You must be crazy!! Blue Wing Teal is a damn fine eating duck!!!

[Wildfowler]

Wildfowler!! You must be crazy!! Blue Wing Teal is a damn fine eating duck!!!

Then I'll take it that you would prefer to shoot and eat the "greater" Blue Wing wouldn't you? You must then know that they really are miniature spoonbills and eat in the exact same places that spoonbills eat.

I don't discriminate against any duck. I try not to eat any of them. If I'm giving away ducks from a hunt, I give them all away. I don't pick and choose which ones I keep for myself. And when I breast them out for myself, I keep and breast them all.

Just trying to point out that the spoonbills closest relative is considered a prized duck by most hunters. Most guys would be thrilled to take home a strap full of teal, when in fact, they really are miniature spoonbills. If a BWT is considered damn fine eating, then so is a spoonbill.

[Wingman]

If folks'll eat snails and pig guts, shovelers gotta be up there with angel food cake.

[Cephous]

If folks'll eat snails and pig guts, shovelers gotta be up there with angel food cake.

[h2o_dog]

If folks'll eat snails and pig guts, shovelers gotta be up there with angel food cake.

Good point...but even using that logic, coot is still at the bottom of the list!

[JAMES FARMS]

i rather drink gasoline and piss on a brush fire

[tombstone]

We eat them all the time. I have over the last couple of years tried to hold off shooting them, just becasue I would rather kill gadwalls or pintails to finish a limit, but if it is slow........

I eat anything, but truthfully I can not tell the difference.

[Seymore]

You'd eat a chicken in a heartbeat, knowing that all its life it's been walking around in chicken poop, eating pellets out of a trough, stepping over other dead chickens in the pen and sharing lice with 10,000 other chickens in the coop....yet wonder if a shoveler is okay to eat?

Grill it.

I worked in a chicken processing plant the Summer of my senior year in college. Took me 6 months to eat another chicken. Bought my wife's engagement ring and to this day I tell her the ring is made of of chicken doo.

By the way they pump all the offall, chicken waste after processing, into tanker trucks and take it away to make chicken feed out of it.

[Chocolate Seal]

Yep, if you eat chitterlings, you aint gonna turn yo nose up for a grilled smiling mallard!!! Coarse, I will eat just about anything that aint gonna eat me! It might be kinda like a bad date!!!!

[tomccamp]

You could wrap bacon around them, but of course you could wrap bacon around a turd and make it taste good too.

[Chocolate Seal]

pntail, call me--601-421-3795
lets go kill some smiling mallards