April 26, 2017, 05:23 PM | #26 |
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They look about sandwich size.
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April 28, 2017, 08:42 AM | #28 |
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I see roasted pigs with Sweet Baby Ray's painted on them.
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April 28, 2017, 09:21 AM | #29 |
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I agree, smoke 'em.
BTW, nice trap! |
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They do enough damage that I wouldn't want to release them. Just feed them out for a bit, then butcher.
If I was going to release any it would be males after castration, they won't be making any little piggies, and if you harvest them later the meat won't be so boarish tasting. |
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stevelyn.....I love the Sweet Baby Ray's sauce with pork. My wife made up a hog leg a while back with it and root beer in a crock pot. I stripped it off the bone when done and made sandwiches with it and a little more sauce dribbled over it. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.
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I'd say harvest them. From what I've read you guys don't have a shortage of them....
Into the smoker they go.
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If they parallel other edible animals, the young ones are generally better....think veal or lamb. I don't know if that holds true for pigs or wild animals in general.
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I heard that some trappers catch the males and castrate them and feed them corn for a month before slaughtering. This practice is for the quality of the meat.
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There are probably a few guys that might pen up feral hogs to fatten them up for butcher, but I doubt many. Castrating and feeding out a larger boar is a time consuming endeavor. You won't be getting meat from a mature boar that is nearly as good as a sow for quite some time after castrating.
The feral hogs work for a living for one thing, and do not have the fat infused into the meat as much as domestic hogs. You can find them with a large girdle of fat on them, and still have pretty lean meat to deal with. The boar taste and smell can stay with one for some months after castrating as well. A small boar will butcher out just fine, but the bigger ones are just coyote food as far as I'm concerned. |
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