How Do You Field Dress A Rabbit?
• Understand that supermarket meat is well-tested and ready for human consumption. The same is not true of meat from animals you kill. On the contrary they can and often do carry diseases and parasites. • Getting a clean shot with a BB Gun is the most important step in any field dressing. With a messy kill internal organs can mix together, hair and parasites can enter the carcass and, depending on your weapon, you may not have much rabbit left to eat. Understand the dangers of gutting a rabbit incorrectly. Blood born diseases and parasites, along with spoiled food are some of the dangers of not field dressing or gutting correctly. Some of these dangers include: • Warbles a type of common parasite found in most wild animals. Warbles live under the skin, but outside of the ‘meat’ and are planted by Bot flies. They can infect humans, cattle, sheep and squirrels. Warbles on game are not harmful to humans. The only way to contract this parasite is with contact with an adult bot fly. Rabbits
