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10gr8kids
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Any boar will taste bad, whether domestic or feral. IMO
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Ridgerunner
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They’re also lightning fast.
Regarding the taste of pork. Years ago, a hillbilly came to me asking if I wanted to “partner” with him on some pigs. They would be for eating, not selling. We made a deal whereby I paid for the piglets and half the mill feed. He would provide the labor and one other thing.
He worked in a town in which, at that time, the grocery stores did not prohibit people getting the discarded produce from the dumpster. Grocery stores throw away a lot of produce, and most of it is actually good stuff. It’s just a bit agey, or bruised or wilted a bit. Anyway, about twice/week he would bring a pickup load of that produce of every kind to feed to the pigs. Corn, carrots, tomatoes, asparagus, peaches, apples, cantaloupes; everything they sell in stores.
The pigs loved it.
Ultimately, I paid for the butchering and packaging and as I live and breathe that was the best pork I have ever eaten in my life.
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10gr8kids
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A couple years ago I raised 3 hogs to butcher. They were only about 10 lbs when we got them, 2 gilts and a sow. I really loved raising them. At times my hens were laying more eggs than we could eat, I’d feed some to the hogs, they absolutely loved them. We also fed them all our scraps, but eggs were their favorite. When it got really hot, I’d go water them down with a hose. They also really love to be scratched.
When fall came, I felt like such a traitor when they followed me up into the trailer as I enticed them with eggs.
I enjoyed raising them more than I did eating them, but my husband and kids sure did enjoy the eating!
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Arizona_Fat_Gir
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BABY pigs are cute. They are also smart. I wonder if he ignored the hog it would just go away on its own. Live and let live, I always say.
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7_Sorrows
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This hog looked like a baby hippopotamus! Huge!
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Monte_RCMS
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Arizona_Fat_Gir
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Up on a ranch in Camp Verde the people I know owned black Angus bovines. I could never understand how someone could butcher someone (a cow, pig or whatever) they know. The black Angus were supposedly to be slaughtered. (I guess I have a soft heart when it comes to animals.)
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7_Sorrows
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I wondered the same thing. The article said the man lived on 100 acres. I am sure he didn’t want the hog to hang around.
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Ridgerunner
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It might go away on its own, then return next day and kill one of his children. You don’t let them go if you can kill them.
In my state, the rule is “shoot on sight”. They’re a terrible plague in some places. They can and will kill and eat calves, fawns, sheep and goats. They’ll kill a person and eat him too if they feel like it. They’ll destroy a crop overnight
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Monte_RCMS
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If you ignore them, they will breed so prolifically that they will destroy your property.
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7_Sorrows
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This one looks like he was more than a vegetarian!
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Monte_RCMS
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10gr8kids
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I have a soft heart for animals also, but they are sure a lot tastier than greens! A nutritious food source is one of the reasons God gave them to us. A person can appreciate all the qualities of an animal, not just one.
As with the hogs I raised, even though I really enjoyed them, it would not have been practical at all to just keep them penned up and feeding them for the rest of their lives. Their usefulness to us was as a food source. And you can’t just let a hog go, they will multiply and destroy the habitat of all the other animals.
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Monte_RCMS
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Well, the pork chops, ham steaks, T-Bone steaks, and prime ribs have to come from someplace.
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Crusaderbear
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Yes, vegetables are what food eats! 
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Monte_RCMS
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Almost makes me a vegetarian.Yes, vegetables are what food eats!
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Xystus
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Seago told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he plans to display the hog’s stuffed head and shoulders at his taxidermy shop. He said the rest of the remains were discarded on a friend’s property.
“It’s so humid down here, it had to hang all night. I wouldn’t trust the meat,” he said.
turnto23.com/news/national/alabama-man-to-display-head-of-820-pound-hog-shot-in-yard
I bet his taxidermy business gets a boost from the publicity. Good for him.
“It’s so humid down here, it had to hang all night. I wouldn’t trust the meat,” he said.
turnto23.com/news/national/alabama-man-to-display-head-of-820-pound-hog-shot-in-yard
I bet his taxidermy business gets a boost from the publicity. Good for him.
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Trader
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The Big Island of Hawaii has both feral pigs and macadamia nut trees. If you visit the macadamia nut factory in Hilo, they will explain that it takes a lot of pressure to crack the shell of those nuts, but that the jaws of a feral pig can do it easily. The lesson was not to put your fingers in the mouth of a feral pig if you see one. The islands have no native mammals.
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mikekle
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I just wonder if the feral pigs in HI are causing as much destruction as they are in the southern US? Seems like HI would be seeing the same problems with herds getting too big too fast, crop damage, etc?
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Trader
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The area of Hawaii with the feral pigs has a lot of recent volcanic activity and very little vegetation. The pigs have a hard time finding enough to eat and tend to be much smaller than than 820 pounds.
A better local story in Hawaii is about the rats introduced accidentally by visiting ships. The rats were eating the sugar cane on plantations, so the owners introduced the mongoose from India thinking that they would eat the rats. The plan was a spectacular failure because the rats eat at night and the mongoose hunts during the day. Hawaii also has no snakes which the mongoose eats in India. The mongoose has almost exterminated the native Nene goose and also ate sugar cane because there was nothing else to eat during the day. Oops!
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