raising wild boar

[brian mcf]

hi,anybody raising wild boar?like to here from you. or any imput. thanks

[WolfWalksSoftly]

Come to Southern Missouri or Arkansas..you can have all you want..in Missouri, there is no season or limit.

[cathryn]

When I was a kid I worked on a farm in Germany. A local farmer left an exterior door open to a stall in his barn. He would feed the local wild hogs in there, letting them come and go as they pleased. Eventually he would close the door on the ones he wanted when they came in to feed, finish them and then butcher. YUMMY! Seems no matter how many times he did it, some would come back for the free food! Don't know what he put out for food.

Peace, Cathryn

[solidwoods]

I had some meat from a cross with domestic pig. Very good.
jim

[vancom]

isn't "raising wild boar" an oxymoron? or is it like "planting wild flowers"...

[Alice In TX/MO]

I know one person who had a wild hog that came up for her share of the dog food. When she brought a litter with her, he closed her and the babies in a pen.

Also know another person who traps them, feeds them out, then butchers them.

What do you need to know?

[Micahn]

I am not sure it was called raising them but we used to catch them alive and fatten them up before eating them.
We used dogs to catch them them put them in a pen for a few weeks feeding them corn, old sweet rolls and stuff we would get free from a store. Feed them long enough like that and most of that wild taste would go right out of them.

Oh and to add to this we had a deal with a butcher that would package them up any way we wanted them for 1/4 a pig at a time. He would do every thing from aging them to making things like sausage what ever we wanted for that 1/4 of them.
This was all back in high school. 2 friends and I would go out and get them and have big parties. We would tell people we would supply the food and they could bring the beer. We had some great parties.

[texican]

Not really worth the trouble to actually pen them, feed them and slaughter them.... when they're available already grown, ready to be harvested.

If you want to raise one for 'fun' that's great... but you're better off buying a pig with good genes, and feed it out... the cost of the pig is minor compared to the less weight gained by feeding a wild hog the same feed you'd feed the tame one.

Also, boar meat is randy... very very randy... if you like the smell of a randy old boar (ahhh, boar urine), you'll love the aroma of cooking boar meat. I've eaten it... but I won't butcher another one for the freezer, unless I'm starving. Stick to sows, or castrate your boars, feed them out, then slaughter.

[uncle Will in In.]

Tame weaner pigs between 20 and 30 pounds were selling for $5 to $10 last week at the auction barn. I guess that wasn't the question. Sorry.

[grimm_mojo]

a buddy an i are starting to get into raising razorback pigs got one sow so far an couple boars an .. got see about picking up another sow soon

[texican]

Originally Posted by grimm_mojo

a buddy an i are starting to get into raising razorback pigs got one sow so far an couple boars an .. got see about picking up another sow soon

If you don't have em in your area already grimm, I wouldn't advertise it, at least not locally. You've got a potential Pandora's Box... if they get out, and you've been advertising the fact, you could be responsible financially for all the damage they do when they get out and start destroying hay meadows, pastures, forests, farms, plantations.

My grandpa raised hogs on 10K acres up until 87. Quite a few would go wild... and when a hog got out and started destroying fences and farms, my grandpa would go out and 'make it right' by the owners. After he died, some relatives 'claimed the hogs' against all hunters, etc. Once they started destroying hay meadows, orchards, farms, fields, etc.... they (the land owners) called the 'owners' of the hogs... they, being low class scum, told the wronged people to 'take a hike'... AND, the great slaughter began... at that point, when the owners said there hogs could do no wrong, and you'd best just learn to love it...... everyone starting killing em, with dogs, traps, guns...

I could see raising em if your starting a 'hunting operation'... but that'd be the only reason.

[RedHogs]

a buddy an i are starting to get into raising razorback pigs got one sow so far an couple boars an .. got see about picking up another sow soon

Please don't...the nation has a serious problem already without your help....the 2008 farm bill has put 15,000,000 dollars in a psuedorabies program to control the spread of feral hog diseases....Kill the ones we have already....we don't need more.

[meanwhile]

We do not but neighbors do. We have too many wild hog around here, they bait a pen, catch the wild pigs, fatten 'em up, butcher and eat. They just feed them table scraps, leaves, grass, corn. Around here one does keep very quiet, if they do catch wild boar/pigs since the Wildlife people do not like it. I don't think it is illegal, its just not worth them pestering about it.

I agree with RedHogs that we do not need more Wild boar/pigs. They do a lot of damage around here.

[grimm_mojo]

actually they already have wild pigs here an have a open season for past 10 years . an i am raising to sell to hunting ranches here is why i have them. an will be having them vaccinated against diseases. an i take full responsibility for damage they do while i have them . an i will be hunting the ones that are here already as well . my buddy an me are training dogs to hunt the hogs with. i have no intentions of turning any these pigs loose why i am investing money in good solid pens an holding areas.

[texican]

Originally Posted by grimm_mojo

my buddy an me are training dogs to hunt the hogs with. i have no intentions of turning any these pigs loose why i am investing money in good solid pens an holding areas.

If you're going into the 'business', I seriously suggest you forget about dogs. Completely. You'll catch every single hog in an area present with a properly designed, placed, and baited trap. The only ones you won't catch, are the ones that have been trapped once already.... they get trap-shy. Running them with dogs will scatter them... you'll only catch several out of a group. The ones you catch will be torn up, no matter how 'gentle' your dogs are. Hunting operations won't generally accept any hog that's got obvious problems, like busted up faces, torn off ears, broken legs, or open wounds. No 'hunter' (I find hog hunting operations to be a joke!) wants his 'trophy' with festering wounds.

My uncle traps hundreds a month, selling the wildest looking ones to several E Texas hog hunting operations (canned hunts, to the extreme... caged hogs released after hunters get on the 'stand'... hogs are starved a few days, and they follow the corn trail, thru a clearing past the hunter... :1pig: )... the tame looking ones (white) go to a wild boar processor... the bunged up ones are kept in his holding pens till they're better, or I come get them and put them in the freezer. He catches his wild hogs with traps.

Some other relatives like to use dogs. The hogs are skittish in the first place... once dogs chase them, they leave the area for several weeks to a month. The caught hogs are usually earless by the time the humans arrive.

I've been working with feral/wild hogs all my life...

Good luck!

[grimm_mojo]

actually the hunting with dogs is something i personnally want to do for my self to put some in my freezer . i would love to trap them but only problem there is here in southern ohio not many will let you on there land for fear you will mess up there deer hunting. my buddy is building traps an trying to find a place to set them out. so i see what happens an thanks

[Pops2]

texican
I personally know several doggers that do eradication work and they have no problems selling exceptional dog caught hogs to ranches. the scars make them look more ferocious. also dogs are the only way to catch trap shy hogs & the ones the heloborn govt shooters miss. doggin hasn't scattered them that i've ever seen. they move out & add territory because of natural dispersion like any other animal. the ones here go deep during the deer & bear seasons because the deer &/or bear doggers run everyday for 3 months. a week after the seasons close you can see them crossing the forest roads in the mornings & evenings.