Morel mushrooms??

[SqrlMama]

Is it ok to give my girl some morels?

[CritterMom]

Real honest to God morels are okay. False morels are poisonous. Make absolutely sure you know what you are doing when you collect. We have a member here who has hunted morels his entire life and still managed to make that mistake...his squirrel pulled through but the fact that it happened at all - to an experienced collector - decided me to do all of my mushroom hunting in the produce department of my local grocery.

[Rhapsody]

These are wild mushrooms right? --unless you have personally seen the other wild squirrels
in your area eating the mushrooms I would not feed them to my squirrels, and you have to
make sure they do not have any pesticide sprayed on them.

I personally buy and feed my squirrels mushrooms from the grocery store --Portobello Mushrooms.

[smurfangel182]

Not trying to hijack a thread but i was looking for something on this seeing its morel "hunting" time where i live. I personally do not go looking for them but a bunch of friends do. How do you tell the good from bad ones? Also what kinds of mushrooms are good for squirrels?

[Rexie]

Be safe and get from the grocery store

[smurfangel182]

So just like the whitish ones by the salad stuff are good?

[HRT4SQRLS]

You can try any of the grocery store mushrooms. Portabella, schitake :) porcini, white, oyster, etc. I have flyers so Lord knows, I have bought every variety of mushrooms known to man and I don't even eat them. I have thrown at least a ton in the garbage can. :shakehead

It's hit or miss with mushrooms. They mostly won't eat them. I guess eventually I'll be ordering truffles from France. :rotfl

I see the wilds eat mushrooms in the yard. No doubt if I feed them one they would die. I read something that I think says it best. All mushrooms are edible... some only ONCE!


( just in case someone didn't GET that... that once is because you die).