Wild Hogs in the Garden----Question

Wish hogs were more prevalent in VA, I know they are destructive but it is FREE BACON!

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His name was Jeremiah Johnson,They say he wanted
to be a mountain man.

I understand that swine need to be frozen for a minimum of three weeks to kill trichonosis (sp), but you might want to look that up.

ahhh really

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His name was Jeremiah Johnson,They say he wanted
to be a mountain man.

It's not free bacon when they are tearing your crops up. Imaging having a bunch of 200 lb rats running around.

For photographs of various ways to roast a hog carcass see eBay listing #270679245334.

Others like to cut it in half periodically turning the sides over.

As mentioned on another thread we will be roasting one at the Hardy's Countryside Reunion (4-9 July) in SW Indiana near Gentryville.

Sounds like you're doing a great job filling your freezer!! I have butchered intact wild boars without any problem with the meat. I'm hoping to get my trap put up soon on a friends property. It's also a corral trap, so I'm hoping to fill my freezer as well.

Yes we had to get out a 4th freezer we had in storage. The sausage we made is so good my Wife wants to get another hog and remove the tenderloin and use the rest just for sausage. I got plenty of pork but I would be afraid to thaw it up enough to grind it and make sausage out of it. We want to make some smaller/breakfast sausage. Its been a little over a week since a hog has visited my trap, they might be "told" all the wild hogs about it and they are staying away. It has been a week between visits before. Time will tell.

You DON'T want to see what they can do to lambing ewes or kidding goats, either. They are quite versatile and intelligent enough to become predators on newborn calves or foals, and on poultry, as well. Intelligent enough to do a cut-and-run attack a few days in a row, too, foreseeing the end result.

The raw intelligence needs training as well, which these trapped pigs didn't have and their friends still outside the trap have been getting, but that's always the case. If you get pigs starting predation, you'd better make a big move to wipe them out, or it will become endemic in their local population and get passed around both geographically and down the generations.

Nice pics. We just caught three in our trap today. Two does and a boar. Very tasty meat. Never had a problem with meat from a wild boar.