Hello,
Well we took our huge boar to slaughter. We actually found one that did boar meat. So after quite an adventure getting him into a trailer, we used one of those snatch wires on a stick like our vet used on our sow who prolapsed and then hubby proceeded to drag him while I shoved his rear with a board while the boar screamed because he didn't want to leave his pen. When we got to the butcher, most of the people dropping off hogs hadn't seen one that big.
We got the meat back yesterday and were very surprised to discover he was only about 350 lbs, meat was 204lbs and butcher said they lose about 100 or so. Our boar did have a nice coating of fat on him.
I can't even begin to imagine a 600 lb hog now that I know ours wasn't that big. No wonder you told me to get rid of him, anything bigger would surely hurt the sows. We're not upset he's gone, because he was really mean and the 2 sows he bred had a total of 7 piglets together, therefore not good for breeding.
Now comes the big problem, cooking and eating this meat. We smoked a shoulder roast last night and cooked up some of the sausage for dinner. I had to run from the house, the smell was like boar urine. Hubby quickly added lots of seasoning and onions and the smell got better. He said he couldn't smell it. He tasted it and liked it, saying it didn't taste any different from store bought. I tasted it after quite a while and the initial taste wasn't bad, but the aftertaste was just like the smell. I couldn't eat it. When the shoulder roast was done, I smelled it and can still smell the bad smell through the smoked flavor.
Is there anything we can do to get rid of the smell? Luckily there isn't a lot of meat and it didn't cost very much to have him butchered. Hubby says he can eat it, but I don't think i can be around while he does so.
Any ideas and suggestions, please?
Thanks,
Mouse
Well we took our huge boar to slaughter. We actually found one that did boar meat. So after quite an adventure getting him into a trailer, we used one of those snatch wires on a stick like our vet used on our sow who prolapsed and then hubby proceeded to drag him while I shoved his rear with a board while the boar screamed because he didn't want to leave his pen. When we got to the butcher, most of the people dropping off hogs hadn't seen one that big.
We got the meat back yesterday and were very surprised to discover he was only about 350 lbs, meat was 204lbs and butcher said they lose about 100 or so. Our boar did have a nice coating of fat on him.
I can't even begin to imagine a 600 lb hog now that I know ours wasn't that big. No wonder you told me to get rid of him, anything bigger would surely hurt the sows. We're not upset he's gone, because he was really mean and the 2 sows he bred had a total of 7 piglets together, therefore not good for breeding.
Now comes the big problem, cooking and eating this meat. We smoked a shoulder roast last night and cooked up some of the sausage for dinner. I had to run from the house, the smell was like boar urine. Hubby quickly added lots of seasoning and onions and the smell got better. He said he couldn't smell it. He tasted it and liked it, saying it didn't taste any different from store bought. I tasted it after quite a while and the initial taste wasn't bad, but the aftertaste was just like the smell. I couldn't eat it. When the shoulder roast was done, I smelled it and can still smell the bad smell through the smoked flavor.
Is there anything we can do to get rid of the smell? Luckily there isn't a lot of meat and it didn't cost very much to have him butchered. Hubby says he can eat it, but I don't think i can be around while he does so.
Any ideas and suggestions, please?
Thanks,
Mouse