Snow Goose Harvest

During recent years the numbers of snow geese have dramatically increased to the point that they are destroying parts of the arctic tundra.  In response to this, there is a conservation order in effect to try to reduce the number of Snow Geese by hunting.  The conservation order is different than a regular hunting season as it has no daily limits on the number of snow geese a hunter.

These were some of the geese on our field this morning. Too bad Scott was gone and didn’t get a chance to get any.

Scott has been hunting some as he has the time.  He had also told one of our neighbors that we would be willing to take some of the geese that other hunters harvested.  Imagine our surprise when we received a call on Saturday that they had shot 123 snow geese.

When asked how many we wanted I really wasn’t sure what to say.  I had never worked up that many geese and we had company.  Thankfully our guest was willing to help work them up so we took 119 of them.

That is a bunch of geese!

Three hours later we had 78 pounds of breast meat cleaned.  It more than filled two 5 gallon buckets!

I have been looking for recipes to try with all this goose meat.  I have made some jerkey that the boys really like but obviously will need some other recipes as well.  I have found several on the internet that look good, so I will post the “keeper” recipes as we try them.

I would love to try any recipes that you or your family love using goose breasts.

Blessings!

Jennifer

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