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albacore

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Tue Sep 14, 2021, 03:58 PM Sep 2021

Feral pigs... [View all]

I know this isn't the lounge, but I'm hoping somebody has some information.

I know the feral hog problem is acute in some areas...thousands and thousands of them ripping up crops and pastureland.

Youtube has many videos of guys with rifles equipped with night sights killing hundreds of them. I understand the necessity to do something, but I'm wondering if there is any facility...or plans for a facility...to take live-captured hogs and feed them up on good food for a short time, a few (I'm sorry) antibiotics, and slaughter them for human food.

It seems like a waste to just shoot them and let them rot...or to drastically increase the coyote population.

I raised hogs in a limited fashion for years, so I know there would be difficulties to overcome, but.. if one hog weighs 200 lbs, and you shoot 100 in one night... that's a lot of meat going to waste.

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Feral pigs... [View all] albacore Sep 2021 OP
The meat of a feral pig taste little like that of a farm raised pig. I think it's a good idea but in2herbs Sep 2021 #1
I think it is very good. alphafemale Sep 2021 #8
just avoid swamp ferals. hell, pet food. why no pork cat food? pansypoo53219 Sep 2021 #27
In California, feral pig meat is so tough* and 'gamey' it's generally made into sausage Brother Buzz Sep 2021 #12
#Feraldo Champp Sep 2021 #22
The late great Phil Frank and Farley Brother Buzz Sep 2021 #23
I've wondered the same thing... jmbar2 Sep 2021 #2
Parasites can be a problem - especially trichinosis, and a bunch of other transmissible diseases hatrack Sep 2021 #3
Find python cowboy on instagram GitRDun Sep 2021 #4
Arkansas has a program for hunters to donate wild game for food programs. Arkansas Granny Sep 2021 #5
I know a guy in Texas who traps them mainer Sep 2021 #6
I know in Texas some hunters already donate the kills to be used for food DetroitLegalBeagle Sep 2021 #7
Generally invasive species have no specific hunting season LeftInTX Sep 2021 #21
They could use the meat for animal foods Mosby Sep 2021 #9
I have a friend in.. luvs2sing Sep 2021 #10
I fully expected to read about Trump and his evil spawn when I clicked on this. 11 Bravo Sep 2021 #11
The meat of adult male pigs is nasty. Klaralven Sep 2021 #13
125/150 lbs is about the cutoff gay texan Sep 2021 #18
"Boar taint". It's awful NickB79 Sep 2021 #25
Feral hogs won't pass USDA inspection LeftInTX Sep 2021 #14
I trap them on my property gay texan Sep 2021 #17
they're smart too Shellback Squid Sep 2021 #26
Wild hogs rescue piglets in cage Hope232 Sep 2021 #15
welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2021 #28
In the state of Texas gay texan Sep 2021 #16
I smoke feral hog ripcord Sep 2021 #19
Roll 'em or use a pipe? How you keep 'em lit? marble falls Sep 2021 #24
Go, go, hogzilla!! SYFROYH Sep 2021 #20
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