I wonder if those are good eating.
No. 80-90 lbs. or less.
meat quality in a big porker is all about how you butcher the boar. The best-eating wild pigs are younger, smaller boars, Clayton said, noting he prefers boars of 190 pounds or less.
It's kind of like deer, processing wise. If you don't process deer, or wild hogs properly, you can get sick and come down with something nasty. But once it's processed properly, wild hogs taste just as good as the hogs from the supermarket.
BTW just had some venison chili a co-worker brought. Absolutely delicious.
I wonder if those are good eating.
I dunno but our son-in-law uses wild boar in deer sausage and he makes some darn good deer sausage...........;)
If that boar hasn't been fighting or screwing with other pigs in the last hour, and you kill him dead as a stone with the first shot, then he might be OK to eat. Otherwise, generally pass on the big boars and go for the shoats under 200 lbs. To me, wild pork tastes better than store-bought.
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.
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.