Wild animals are cherished so much in our community as the most delicious kind of meat. We believe that those animals that grow on their own among the wild are original tasty meat; 😃the domestic ones are synthesized. And honestly, bush tastes more delicious in our mouths than domestic ones.
The bush meat are mostly bush rats and rodents. These are the ones we can hunt and kill easily. There include the grasscutters, the rabbits, the squirrels, the quails and many more.
The meat lives in holes. They bore holes on the ground and live. They mostly walk at night and sleep in the daytime. When hunting for them we used traps. Traps are set in the evening with baits. When the animals come out in the nights, they are trapped as they intend to feed on the bait. Also, we dig their holes to catch those who are sleeping in the holes during the afternoon.
Bush rats and rodents are very destructive in the farm lands. They live on grains and tuber crops. They go about digging our cassava, potatoes and yam tubers to eat. Our cereals are their favorite. They devour them seriously. The act of hunting them down to kill them is very vital in the farm as this helps in reducing their population and also provide our poor farmers with dependable sources of protein.