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    Default Critters in Sap

    Had a dead mouse in my sap tank. Should I dump it all or boil it anyhow?

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    I like 'em braised with a little garlic.

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    I'll just answer with a response I got from an old timer many years ago......Ring as much sap as you can out of that critter and move on son.

    In reality, it's only one bucket of sap. Dumping it should not be a huge loss.
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    Dump the mouse, boil the sap. Doesn't work so well the other way around.
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    I had that happen to me once and I dumped the sap. When living things die they release things and so I considered the sap contaminated.
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    Very first bucket this year, top of the hill, farthest away, can see it's 3\4 full walking up to it. MOUSE and 6 turds...dumped it out walked the bucket all the way back to clean it out. Ohh mother nature, you got me good this year. Hahaha
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    Yeah, we've had a few mice and squirrels in buckets over the years. Hide the bodies and keep the sap.
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    The difference between a Vermont Sugerer and a New York Sugarer is that when a New Yorker finds a squirrel in his sap bucket he looks around carefully to make sure no one is looking and he tosses the squirrel and puts the sap in his gathering tank. A Vermonter finds a squirrel in his sap bucket and he looks around to make sure no one is looking and he carefully wrings all the sap out of the squirrels fur into his gathering bucket before he tosses the squirrel and gathers the sap.
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    Don't boil it more than 5 minutes or it'll be overdone, or throw it away if you're not hungry.
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