I have seen some video’s of the wild hogs becoming a huge problem in the south. I saw a photo of dead ones stacked high. Can they be eaten? How come people aren’t hunting them like deer and filling the freezer? I understand that some places have shoot on site permission on these hogs. If the can be eaten, and someone has a farm with shoot on site, I would like to come down shoot a bunch and bring some ham & shoulders up here to give to the food banks around here for the upcoming holidays.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Warren

I don't think I have eaten any wild hog. If I have eaten it
before I don't remember. I certainly would try it. That being
said I don't see why not eat it. We eat most other wildlife.
Don

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You bet they can be eaten. The Glades County crackers catch em with dogs and pen them up to let them calm down. Feed them a little and then it's butcher time. Cook em slow, on a big trailer grill basting them with mojo and beer. Great eating!

Yes., and it's very good.
Most Texas meat processors can slice and dice anyway
you want.
I take a couple each year...50-90 pounders.
Pan sausage, bacon, hams.....
We are overrun on my East Texas Lease.

I have killed a bunch of them. They are very good eating! They have little to no fat in the meat, so you have to be careful when cooking it not to burn it.

It tastes just like store bought pork, only it's much leaner. Most folks balk at the thought of eating one for some reason. I imagine they would do the same with regular farm pork if they looked at them much.

Yes they can be eaten but it's probably best to wait until they're dead.

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Lynnie, Professional Pest

Feral hogs are just pork. The ones under 150 lbs are the best eating - larger than that, and they get rank. I put one in the locker Sunday morning, and it will be just as good as store bought.

Yeah, You can eat'em. If you want a treat make you some tamales out of them.29r

The other white meat.

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Sure you did

The great big boars are best made into sausage, but the little ones, 60-90 lbs are wonderful. Use the liver and other pieces parts to make boudoin. Remember .....Pig is good and good for you.

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Texas is a pretty long haul for a charity run, I’m hoping to find someone on the East Coast to say come to my farm and take as much as you can ice down, and you don’t even need a out of state hunting license.

If that is possible we could make some of these un/under-employed people up here a little happier this Christmas. If I would need an out of state license is it possible to get the land owner to shoot them and I would just distribute them?

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Warren

My most recently eaten wild pig...sausage, ribs, BBQ'd shoulder, back strap...all gone except for one shoulder still in the freezer.

Yes they are good. Not a lot of fat.

Good luck on your quest for a free hunt invitation...you are going to need it I would guess.

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I guess you need to take a trip to the south soon, because in some areas you can hunt them year round.

I guess I watch too much TV and believe everything I see on the internet. I saw a video that had a guy shooting pigs and a stack that had to have over 20 that looked like it was going to just leave them lay.

I don’t hunt and really didn’t want to hunt them but I would if necessary. I just wish I could help the food banks and church charities. I really would prefer to drive down to GA or someplace within 800-900 miles one way, ice down the meat and get back to distribute it. My wife and I don’t have a lot of money but I’m looking for a unique way to try to help this year. People who have lost work around here end up working at the casinos when lucky, but start at $8.50 ph. That is a tough thing when most rents around here are $900 - $1100.

If anybody has one of the overrun farms and likes to shoot them / or even wants me to send ammo (30-06 or 300WBY) I will help clean them or help shoot them but that is not my intentions. Any help or thoughts please.

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Warren

I killed a 300# a few weeks ago. Used the AR10 and NV/Thermal. He was fat. All the fat is right underneith the skin. The meat was almost as red as venison and just as lean. Ate some medalions that night, marinated a roast in Mojo and cooked it in the crockpot later that week.

It was fine eatin.

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A lot of people here in Texas use them to make tamales.

You need to contact JAGER. He is a retired Master Sergeant who ran the Army Marksmanship Unit at Ft. Benning. He is in the "thermal hog control" business. I think he says he has killed over 400 hogs in SW Georgia this year. You should come down here for a hunt. You could probably take a bunch of pork home with you. You could also probably make arrangements to just come pick up some meat. One of the threads on GON I have linked tells about his distribution of the meat. He has a deal with a processor. Anyone can pick up a field dressed and chilled hog for free (I think), or pay the processor $35 to quarter the hog. All you need is coolers and ice.

It might be too late for this year, but it might not. It would be worth your while to contact him.

As you will see from the threads, there is a lot of controversy surrounding his hunts. The hog doggers generally hater him. Look at some of those videos. It is amazing what he can do to a herd of hogs that are devastating a peanut or corn field.

Free Meat Donations - Georgia Outdoor News Forum

22 Hogs in One Night (Video) - Georgia Outdoor News Forum

Georgia | Wild Hog | Boar Hunting | at Night | Hunts | Outfitters

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Roundgunner, that is one stunning pic. Around here, there is a program encouraging hunters to shoot feral pigs and bring them in to help feed the hungry.

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Torn & Frayed

Friend shot one over 400#; had to pick it up in a frontloader to get it to the house. Had the butcher make the whole thing into spiced sausage.

I like the little ones for barbeque.

I just returned from a muzzleloader hunt down here in Florida, I shot two sows, 95 and 122 lbs. They are the best eating size; I target young sows as part of our "feral swine eradication program". Last year our hunt club (75 members) shot 330 hogs, the year before 400. They reproduce very quickly, three litters a year with 5-8 piglets per litter.
Wild hogs carry swine brucellosis so you should always wear gloves when field dressing the animal. Swine brucellosis does NOT affect the edibility of the meat.
The big ol' rank boar hogs can be good to eat if you handle them properly. I quarter out the meat and put it in a cooler with plenty of ice and mix in water and a small box of baking soda. I soak the meat and drain off the water once a day adding more ice and water. You want to get all of the blood (testosterone is mixed in wit the blood) flushed out of the meat to get rid of the "gamey" taste; as others have said, you then turn them into sausage.
My wife would rather eat wild hog meat than deer meat, that's how good they can be.

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from what I'm told.....wild pig is the mammalian version of Grand Swiss Chocolate...

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A traveling salesman stays overnight with a farm family. When the family gathers to eat there’s a pig seated at the table. And the pig has three medals hanging around his neck and a peg leg. The salesman says, “Um, I see you have a pig having dinner with you.”

“Yes,” says the farmer. “That’s because he’s a very special pig. You see those medals around his neck? Well, the first medal is from when our youngest son fell in the pond, and he was drowning, and that pig swam out and saved his life. The second medal, that’s from when the barn caught fire and our little daughter was trapped in there and the pig ran inside, carried her out and saved her life. And the third medal, that’s from when our oldest boy was cornered in the stock yard by a mean bull, and that pig ran under the fence and bit the bull on the tail and saved the boy’s life.”

“Yes,” says the salesman, “I can see why you let that pig sit right at the table and have dinner with you. And I can see why you awarded him the medals. But how did he get the peg leg?”

“Well,” says, the farmer, “a pig like that–you don’t eat him all at once.”

my cousin and I are going out this weekend a couple hours north of SF for some hogs. They are a nuisance here like most other parts of the country, but we don't have much public land so hunting them is a pain (private ranches charge $500 minimum to hunt hogs).

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they are a lot of fun to hunt..in particular with my 500 mag.handgun...they are tough to bring down and are very fast on their feet...the meat is very good to eat and i have never had a small one...all have been 200 pounds and up...i hunted them at chestnut lodge in western NC...i wish you luck in finding a farm on the east coast...stop by and get me,i'll gladly go with you!!

Yes, they can be eaten. I have eaten wild hog, in of all places, a Muslim area in Kosovo. The hogs destroy the garden plots and the locals hunt them and eat them. I asked one how can they eat pork and he winked at me and said, "Ah, because it wild, it does not count."

It was quite good.

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WAR EAGLE!

Yes they can be eaten and they are very good.
They do have to be cooked well done as they carry Trichinosis.
We are over run with them in Northern Ca.

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/hunti...cialhunts.html

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I was getting nervous reading this since I didn't see anyone mention this. Trichinosis for those of you who are unfamiliar is caused by eating undercooked hog meat which is infected with larvae of a parasitic worm. The larvae live right in the muscle tissue. You have to cook the meat thoroughly to kill the larvae.

Even then, you're still eating cooked larvae......

Just looked up the cooking requirements... cook to 144 degrees Fahrenheit to instantly kill the wormies.
Here's a chart:
°F °C Minimum Time
120 49 21 hours
122 50.0 9.5 hours
124 51.1 4.5hours
126 52.2 2 hours
128 53.4 1 hours
130 54.5 30 minutes
132 55.6 15 minutes
134 56.7 6 minutes
136 57.8 3 minutes
138 58.9 2 minutes
140 60.0 1 minute
142 61.1 1 minutes
144 62.2 Instant

I farm 40 miles west of san antonio,tx. I spend 6-7000 dollars a year for a helicopter to kill them. Just give them time. They will be in your backyard in a very few years.

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Sounds good to me Bob!
My left legs kinda' bumb. But I've got plenty of tree's to sling 'em up on once they get here!
Damned considerate of you chasin' 'em up here as a "to go" order.
Need some help with the JP4 costs on the helo?

i'm with you spotted dog....lets get em!

Aloha,

We have a similar problem here in Hawaiii.

They are hell on the native vegitation. Lots of locals use dogs and when cornered they kill them with knives.

The stat DLNR does have a list of guides who take tourists hunting for pig, goat, bird and axis deer.

Thank you!
This is exactly what I was looking for. I missed the chance this year but now I know for next year and it gives me time to figure out a way to get past the obstacles.

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Warren

No pork is fit for human consumption; nevertheless, people do eat it. Make sure you cook it really good.

no sir it aint fit to eat, ill be right over to get rid of it for you! wild pig meat is fine eating

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I didn't see it mentioned yet, but part of the feral hog problem, and what makes their risk to farms so unique, is their remarkable breeding rate. They are among the most prolific animals in the wild.

It's amazing to hear many antis wailing about the unneccessary killing and (in one of the linked threads) the complaints that hogs are being killed before a recipient of the meat is known.


People who hold such views simply don't understand the notion of vermin and the fact that controlling wild hogs is nowhere near the same issue as 'managing' a wild dear population.

Feral hogs are a blight upon nature, introduced by careless handling of domestic stock, and the damage caused to domestic food supplies by these hogs is enormous.

They are not a population of wild animals that needs protection or 'proper management', they are a plague that needs to be eradicated.

There are plenty of wild game species around without needing to 'protect' feral hogs in any way whatsoever. They should be eliminated as quickly and as certainly as a population of rats.
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