Bear delivering calves.

[tmarch]

Fall bear is too fat for me, but spring bear is much better.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I ain't eating no Bears......and thats all I gots to say.  >:(

[Bibbyman]

Fall bear is too fat for me, but spring bear is much better.

Bear fat was a major market on the frontier as it was the only critter to have any significant fat. The first long hunters that came into the Missouri valley hunted bear for their fat and shipped it down river.  Buy the time the bears were hunted out, the area was settled and hogs supplied the fat. This was a time before EVOO, Pam spray and Cisco.  It's said bear fat makes the best cakes.

[coxy]

there must be something in the food where you guys are the fat on a bear around here will turn green in about 4-8hours and stink horrible the ones that eat them here say if you don't get it off right away that smell will come out when you cook the meat

[Bibbyman]

there must be something in the food where you guys are the fat on a bear around here will turn green in about 4-8hours and stink horrible the ones that eat them here say if you don't get it off right away that smell will come out when you cook the meat

Maybe it has to be rendered down before it can be stored? 

I did some checking and it's available but expensive stuff.  Beside cooking with it, it's used in products such as leather conditioner and water proofing.  It's even sold for medicinal uses because of high vitamin concentration and other properties.

[coxy]

never new it was used for those things   thanks

[Wick]

A farmer a few miles away has had the same happen except  buzzards were the culprit. They even starting eating the after birth from the mother and by the time he caught it had eaten half her backside away. The story was very disturbing, especially his details about treating the cow to save her.   :'(

[Magicman]

Yes, I had forgotten that we always had problems with buzzards.

There are so many reasons that with my property 45 miles away, I have no livestock.  Only trees.   ;D