Posted on 08/31/2024 1:46:17 PM PDT by Libloather
What has four legs, hails from Spain, is notoriously difficult to kill, multiplies by 10 each year, and causes an annual $2.5 billion damage to the economy?
If you guessed feral hogs, you are correct. An estimated nine million nomadic pigs currently roam America, destroying crops and properties which lay in their path, according to the US Department of Agriculture.
Hogs even cause the occasional fatality - either through a rare bloodthirsty attack on a human or by charging across a highway and triggering a road traffic accident.
In the most pig-dense states like Texas, law enforcement officials offer bounties of around $15 per hog ear to citizens who successfully shoot one down.
And the species is reproducing at an alarming rate, with the average hog birthing two litters of around five piglets per year. It is little wonder then that groups of self-styled 'hog hunters' are cropping up across the country, armed with 'hogcopters', bows-and-arrows and guns to wipe out thousands of the feral beasts each year.
'They're wildly out of control. They're uncontrollable,' said Andy Butler, who has shot thousands of hogs and runs a Texas-based company equipping law enforcement officials with the knowledge needed to safely shoot the beasts.
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It’s a hairy job. Texas has a lot.
Pigs are smart, fast and always pissed off.
Well, I do love bacon 🥓 and roasted pork chops.
“Well, I do love bacon 🥓 and roasted pork chops.”
From what I understand you are going to wish they tasted better than they do.
A colleague in Northern California hunted wild boar a lot. His butcher always ground up the hog meat with other less gamey meats to make it edible. I tried a sample of his sausage once and it wasn’t bad. Not great, but not bad.
Like many other animals, a young one, not so bad. They get older and are best turned into dog food.
I always thought that would probably be the best way. Season the heck out of it, add lard, and make sausage out of it ALL.
“Like many other animals, a young one, not so bad. They get older and are best turned into dog food.”
Someone shared that it also depends on what they are eating locally. :)
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“Well, I do love bacon 🥓 and roasted pork chops.”
From what I understand you are going to wish they tasted better than they do.
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they may have a better diet than commercially raises hogs?
the ones I’ve tried tasted good.
smoked hams or butts great.
sausage mixed with venison great
I’ve watched YouTube videos of a few Australian guys hunting coyotes at night. Gotta be a good shot, though.
I’m a little surprised David Ellis’s (yawt yawt) youtube channel wasn’t in that article. Lot’s of hog hunting and trapping there.
I am sure it was better than bugs.
Wild hog is not as tasty as the bacon you buy in the store for sure but it is cheaper. I don’t care for it much myself but I’ll help to reduce the population here in my state. Pass the meat off to another person who would appreciate it.
You need to be very careful not to contaminate the meat when skinning them too. I think they have to be certified if you get your harvest processed by a company.
They are messy and stinky to clean and butcher
Decent meat though
Like Democrats with illegal alien invaders.
Sorry about the excess apostrophe.
Thank you for sharing that...
My experience is limited to about five or six pigs over the years.
They bring a quite pronounced ‘gamey’ taste.
We find the hams are most tolerable when baked/roasted/smoked with apple.
The rest of it ain’t good for much, IMO.
Except for the head mounts hanging on the wall. They always spark a bit of converstion.
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