Jim Frame, post: 408607, member: 10 wrote: And then there's that pesky trichinosis thing.
And their covered in lice and you have to take all your clothes off outside and take a wh0#e bath outside to avoid bringing any in. One of the reasons I don't hunt them with dogs and tie them anymore.
paden cash, post: 408625, member: 20 wrote: Wild hogs can climb trees, too. We ran this one up a walnut tree and it was pissed. I've never heard a hog make such a sound.
I guess it was a young one because it hadn't had time to grow any tusks.
That is one of my favorite meals in the winter. I love Racoon. It's a dark sweet meat that is awesome in stews.
Holy Cow, post: 408650, member: 50 wrote: The gestation period for hogs is easy to remember. Three months, three weeks and three days. Heard that from a little bit of everyone I ever knew in the hog business. Totals 114 days, so three litters per year is possible but not likely because mama hog don't want anything to do with papa hog for some time after all those little ones come along. A big part of that is based on the fear that he will eat the little ones. Given the opportunity to do so, he will. Sometimes she is stupid enough to eat them, too. Hogs love meat. Toss a big old snake in their pen and watch the tug of war get started.
Hog teat information: On average, a pig has 12 to 14 complex glands (6 to 7 pairs), but the range is 6 to 32, depending on the breed. Glands are placed in two parallel rows, one on each side, to ensure that the piglets can reach them after birth.
They are the ultimate omnivore for sure.
Kris Morgan, post: 408991, member: 29 wrote: That is one of my favorite meals in the winter. I love Racoon. It's a dark sweet meat that is awesome in stews.
Interesting - I had not thought about eating racoon. We have many around here, but I think you would have to use dogs at night?
Never encountered any during the daylight hours.
I do occasionally hunt grey tree squirrels, but the quality of the meat has been hit and miss. Tasted like tender quail meat one time then like an old boot sole the next time.
paden cash, post: 408687, member: 20 wrote: Extinguishing live animals is a distasteful part of natural environment management.
It's also a distasteful part of farming and ranching...
But it's something that's got to be done.
RADAR, post: 409018, member: 413 wrote: It's also a distasteful part of farming and ranching...
But it's something that's got to be done.
Some time back I remember a post that drifted off into the subject of the feral cats I deal with constantly. I don't remember who it was, but someone disagreed whole-heartedly with my methods of keeping the cat population at check. Same with wild hogs. They are a destructive and filthy pox on the landscape because of their uncontested environment. "Cleaning" up things is very distasteful...but I agree it's "got to be done".
Some people that hunt wild hogs use the same "months with an R" rule as rabbits because of parasites. Eat them September thru April.
I have heard the same may apply to oysters but I am too far from the coast to verify that.
One of the big problems with any kind of feral animal, whether they be cats killing upteen zillion song birds each year or hogs gone wild shredding the environment without any natural predators, you just never know how those dominoes are going to fall. I say kill them all, but then I'm biased after a recent experience with a moron neighbor that acquired a bunch of Flemish Giant rabbits with the intention of breeding them and so on, only to discover that actually involved work and decided he would just release them to 'free range'. And like any good rabbit worthy of the name, they multiplied and multiplied. One of them squeezed through the fence around my place and one of my hounds promptly killed it. A week later he came down with sarcopic mange and was limping badly from what turned out to be a torn ACL and meniscus. Later during surgery he stopped breathing under anesthesia but was revived. Cost me thousands in vet bills. Don't get me wrong. I love eating rabbit, but if you inflict a filthy pox upon me and my hounds, I will respond with a terrible vengeance. Only the prospect of life in prison prevented me from dragging that idiot neighbor who released those rabbits from his home and strangling the life out of him.
Williwaw, post: 409032, member: 7066 wrote: And like any good rabbit worthy of the name, they multiplied and multiplied.
Kinda like they did in Australia...
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