Very much and understatement, a mature Nutria can weigh 10 plus pounds and there's allot of meat on them.

Yes, nutria are delicious.

Nutria Sauce Piquante! 👍
Fried nutria (young ones are best).
BBQ nutria.
Nutria stewed in brown onion gravy.
Oh MAN! Don't ever pass up the chance to shoot a nutria.

^^ This man knows what’s up! ^^

Many years ago the town I grew up in decided to bring in nutria to control the vegetation in a pond in the local park. I think all it did was enabled nutria to multiply and thrive down the creek and into the San Saba river.

Spoken from a true Cajun !!

Went hunting in the Atchafalaya Swamp yesterday and when checking the trail cam pics we had several Nutria having a feast at the deer feeder. Those suckers looked to be about 15-20 lbs and corn fed. Should have been very tasty. I also heard of Nutria boudin that sounded quite good.

I am thinking I might need to try a nutria.
I tried porcupine and those quills are not protecting some delicious meat. It was dark greasy meat. But they are easy to skin.

Get em

It's surprising how many of you eat nutria. Who knew?
Instead of Nutria, the poor mans meat,
I should have made the subject line, Nutria, it's what's for dinner.

I'm gonna haft to pass on this, not even after a 12 pack.

I’ve eaten nutria. It’s pretty good marinated in Italian dressing and grilled. It’s a very white meat. Somewhere between pork and chicken. I’d eat it again. They’re totally herbivorous. Like miniature wetland cattle!

The other, other white meat.

Biberratte or Sumpf Bieber as they are known in Germany usually have 4 or 5 pups but can have as many as 13 and up to three litters a year. The pups are capable of surviving on their own within days of birth. So it was no surprise Wednesday when I noticed two more castorino, known in Italy for their fur, swimming in the lake.

A fence post provided a handy support. The first coypu disappeared after I shot so I do not know for sure if I hit it. The second swamp rat dodged and swam away.

Thursday, I was more prepared and brought a camp chair donated to me and a Bog Pod tripod. They fit easily in the back of the jeep and set up on "the beach" on the north side of the lake. In the past, I had hunted off the tripod a couple of times but never shot anything.

Ginger, my rescue Mountain Cur or possibly a Tennessee Treeing Brindle or a mutt, circled around behind the dam to the south side of the lake. By and by, there was a loud kerplop and a Swedish sumpbaver swam along the south side, so fast I could not keep my scope on it. Ginger may have flushed it from its salad bar on the edge of the water.

The breeze had stopped after a while and the lake was a black mirror. Half of a ripple curiously flashed behind a small stump. The scope revealed a nutria perched broadside on the snag.

At that range, about 80 yards, the rifle is zeroed to shoot almost two inches high. On 7 power, the top half of the ring in the Accu Range reticle subtends about three inches. The nutria neatly filled the semi circle above the cross hairs.

It floated motionless so I know for certain that one was a kill. Poor Ginger had returned in the meantime and was surprised by the shot and ran off but came back when I called her and reassured her. She is such a good girl.

We stayed another 30 minutes but no more large rodents appeared. Will keep checking.

water rats/tree rats, pretty much the same

Poetic....like reading Hunter Thompson

Gosh. Thank you. Maybe I should read some of his stuff.