I let them lay unless they are eating size. There energy is recycled back to the earth anyway.

X2 on any big hogs...a good trick if your wanting to skin one this big is too wash him off with dishwashing soap before the knife hit the meat...alot of the stout flavor will come from all the mess thats on there hyde..the blade will get this on it and goes into the meat that you cut....washing them keeps the meat as fesh as possible

If its a big boar, then I do not eat him. Any size sow and young boars I will eat. I love the back strap!

Greetings,
Up to 60, donate or eat them - have lots of hungry friends.
Anything bigger is bait for the yotes or other hogs in middle of field.
Buzzards gotta eat too!
Sometimes, there are just too many to mess with!

Butchered 118 pigs last year and every one of em got et....... not a bad one in the lot. Use much of the meat to feed the struggling families in the area including our Soldiers.

Ifin ya don't want your hogs and you can get em to me I will take em all. Just let me know in advance. 571-212-8600 I am also willing to travel if the numbers are high enought to justify the trip.


Dave

I eat 'em. Got one on ice right now that I'll begin de-boning when I get home tonight.

I tend to eat most of mine, but I also target them around 60-80lb first, then go for whatever I can get a bead on. I prefer hogs under 100lbs, but the absolute best feral hog I have ever eaten was a boar that was well over 250lb and taken in a pecan orchard.

My dogs & cats love whatever I don't want.

-ww

its called the circle of life.

Unable to answer. This sounds like a trick question a lawyer would ask you in court. But.....

If it is anything like the big, stinky hog that weighed almost 300 pounds that I killed a couple of weeks ago, I let the yotes eat him. And, boy did they. Nothing but a big greasy spot left where he laid.

Now, if it is a sow, or a boar less than 100 pounds, he goes in the freezer.

I keep most of them, but sometimes when I feel lazy or kill one too late at night I toss them. As far as donating, what I was told is that most food banks can't take wild hogs, due to all the diseases they carry, its too much of a liability to them to give it out, if someone doesn't cook it right and gets sick they could get sued, so they just don't take it. If you know someone that needs the meat you could give it to them to keep it from going to waste, but in the end it only a hog and there's what like 4 million of them running around the state, I highly doubt that what we have all left laying over the years would even be considered a dent in their numbers.

I checked that I normally don't bother harvesting the meat, but I will take the time on smaller hogs (back strap and hams).

I donate them...to the coyotes.

Will you take em whole/gutted, or do you require they be on ice and quartered?

I'm pretty sure that it is illigal to donate a dead hog to a food bank in Texas because wild hogs have to be inspected pre and post mortem. They are working on getting the law changed.

I eat em unless it's big stinky male, then yotes have feast

One of the best pigs I ever cooked was a big stinky Boar

I eat what I can, give as much as I can to friends, Donate the rest to a local church that has a sort of "Soup Kitchen" program for the needy.....they even process them themselves.


Chupa

Last year I shot 56..this year somewhere around 30. And this is not even really hunting them. At that rate I would have to have a freezer the size of wal-marts...

[quote=Believer]Butchered 118 pigs last year and every one of em got et....... not a bad one in the lot. Use much of the meat to feed the struggling families in the area including our Soldiers.

Ifin ya don't want your hogs and you can get em to me I will take em all. Just let me know in advance. 571-212-8600 I am also willing to travel if the numbers are high enought to justify the trip.


If you want mine I will drop them off on site. I live in Belton.I drive right past you on way home....if I do not have to field dress every one of them

Ive eaten every one Ive killed. Everything from 15 lbs little ones, to a 300lbs boar and everything in between. I usually just quarter them up, and smoke a quarter at a time.

I eat them all - I won't shoot one if it isn't going to be used. Haven't found one yet that was bad tasting. Feel the same way about duck, dove, and deer - I won't shoot it if it isn't going to be eaten.