Wild Boar sausage = gooooooooood eatin'!
Posted on 06/13/2008 1:44:38 PM PDT by wolfcreek
A&M research seeks a birth control pill for the multiplying animals. By Michael Graczyk
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday, June 13, 2008
GILMER — Broad areas of grazing land at Pete Gipson's farm bear plow-like scars. But it's no out-of-control machine that's left disjointed ruts and holes amid long grass ripped from the earth.
He and other ranchers and farmers in Texas and the South are waging an uphill battle against herds of voracious feral hogs. The beasts, up to 3 feet tall and 400 pounds, devour feed intended for livestock and tear up pastures at his 300-acre Red Cap Farms in their search for food.
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“I think I would like to do it after the Texas Summer cools down a little”
You and me both. As with most critters in Texas, hunting them in the summer is probably not a good idea due to the parasites and other nasty conditions. Plus, they won’t come out during the daytime if it’s too warm.
I’ll talk to my buddy and what he says.
Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind.
In my experience it completely depends on what they are eating.
My husband killed a 400 lb russian boar that was eating in a peanut patch. We couldn’t tell the difference between it and store-bought pork. We even served it to company.
Another time he killed 3 little ones that a rancher had trapped in a pen. They were so foul tasting we had to throw it all out.
Wild Boar sausage = gooooooooood eatin'!
what’s your cholesterol reading again? ; )
Them chops don’t look bad either.
The fat in wild pig is supposedly better for you than farm raised/slaughter house pork.
Wonder how that translates in cholesterol?
Well, there was once a prominent Texan named Ima Hogg...
There is a store in Philadelphia that sells Iberico ham for $100 a pound.
But she weren’t no Aggie.
I never sausage misery.
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