Posted on 10/21/2017 8:25:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hogs eat everything. Meat, vegetable, nuts in the shell, acorns, twinkies, you name it.
Although, they really, really like chuffa, a type of weedy, grasslike sedge, for the little tiny nodules on its roots. Same stuff sold in grourmet stores as “tiger nuts.”
They will root up a field like rototillers to get at those things.
And wild hogs are delicious when butchered right and cooked properly. Even more so if some rednecks’ caught them when they were young and cut their nuts before release back into the wild. Yes, people do that for sport in hopes of shooting the hogs when they’ve had a chance to put on more weight because eliminating the hormones makes a huge improvement in meat quality.
Not a 416 pound “Nightmare”. It’s a 416 pound Pig Roast and BBQ.
That lady can always get a job as a pile driver.
I wonder if those are good eating.
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As the saying goes, you can process everything on a hog except the squeal. That’s a lot of meat to process. What has this big boy been eating other than grain from the farmers’ fields, and as the article says, any animals he could catch.
Damm thing looks like a bear wuth that long tail. There’s a big difference between domestic hogs and wild boars. The way this was reported wondered why such a big deal? Because she didn’t call it a boar it sounded like some pig got out of its pen.
GI Joe killed a squirrel?
What an awful thing to say about illegals.......
I have heard those above about 200 lbs are not very good.
I have eaten pork from up to about 150 pounders, and it was excellent.
I asked a hunting guide what size he favored, and he said the little piglets were best.
Feral Hogs are truly organic and great tasting.
I was driving up to my deer lease late one night and came around a turn on a twisty hill country road. A feral hog broke across right in front of my 1965 Mustang.
Its back was higher than the hood of the car. Think about how big that was and how much it must of weighed.
I missed it by inches and the car would have been wrecked completely if I had hit it.
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