skydiver386
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Because I was in the Army for 25 years, and have multiple combat tours. I know exactly what a smelly armpit smells like.@skydiver386 , one question, how do you know what a sweaty armpit tastes like?
Because I was in the Army for 25 years, and have multiple combat tours. I know exactly what a smelly armpit smells like.@skydiver386 , one question, how do you know what a sweaty armpit tastes like?
Now that is just plain BS. I killed and ate a boar that dressed 546lbs and it was delicious. 2 smoked hams that wouldn’t fit in the freezer until cut up. To die for ribs on the Barbie. Breakfast sausage and Italian sausage to fill the freezer. If prepared and cooked properly it doesn’t matter how big they are. That has been my experience. But as with any wild game it needs to be dressed and skinned promptly and aged before cutting up.
My mistake, thought you said tasted like.Because I was in the Army for 25 years, and have multiple combat tours. I know exactly what a smelly armpit smells like.
You sure they were headed to Germany? I had a Vietnamese oyster fisherman friend who would trade oysters for the big smelly ones. Worked out for both of us so I traded him quite a few over the years till he got out of the business. My least favorite hogs were highly prized by him and his family.I never sold Pigs to a chiller but I do know they were taking wild harvested Feral Pigs for the export market many years ago.
A friend was working for a Kangaroo shooter/chiller manager. In Western NSW which is generally dry and they could have been eating anything.
Bigger pigs were worth more per KG for the wild boar export market. I believe these were headed to Germany for human consumption.
We always thought the bigger smellier boars were more highly regarded in the market although most locals would not have touched them.
People would fatten piglets caught in the wild although transporting them or keeping them is still illegal.
Doesn’t have anything to do with pork but we have some Vietnamese shrimpers in Bayou Labatre and they will catch laughing gulls, ring their necks , pluck them and hang them on their rigging in the scorching Alabama sun to age and gut them later and cook them for supper.You sure they were headed to Germany? I had a Vietnamese oyster fisherman friend who would trade oysters for the big smelly ones. Worked out for both of us so I traded him quite a few over the years till he got out of the business. My least favorite hogs were highly prized by him and his family.
Hunt anything: I believe All sea gulls are Federally Protected in the U.S. - same as hawks, owls, eagles, vultures. I’m surprised Fish & Wildlife haven’t ticketed & fined these guysDoesn’t have anything to do with pork but we have some Vietnamese shrimpers in Bayou Labatre and they will catch laughing gulls, ring their necks , pluck them and hang them on their rigging in the scorching Alabama sun to age and gut them later and cook them for supper.
@AfricaHunting.comDoesn’t have anything to do with pork but we have some Vietnamese shrimpers in Bayou Labatre and they will catch laughing gulls, ring their necks , pluck them and hang them on their rigging in the scorching Alabama sun to age and gut them later and cook them for supper.
When I lived in Northern California we used to shoot them and eat them. They seem to be best used as sausage. one friend of mine has his families market and butcher facility. He made the greatest linguica and Italian sausage out of them. While pigs can carry and pass on a couple of illnesses to humans, I've never heard of anyone actually getting sick from eating wild pork. Just be sure it's cooked to well done, as you would with any.pork.I have heard that wild hogs are great table fare. I have also heard they can be full of bad nasty things and should either be cooked to death or not eaten at all.
What does the group think?
you also have compulsory trichinella testing for wild meat in Europe.I’ve never heard of wild boar meat being wasted in Europe. I think this discussion comes more from the animal being considered a pest than a true game animal in the United States.
What you report is very interesting.Anything over about 150#, we leave for the coyotes, buzzards, and worms.
The shoats and sucklings are pretty decent eating. Problem with wild hogs is they're often not much fattier than any other wild game, and when they are fatty, they're not fat from being farm fed. When cooked, the fat never sets up like you see in bacon from farm-raised pigs.
Trichinella and pork tape worms aren't a thing in feral hogs in the US. Most trichinella infections in North America come from undercooked bear, and there are thousands of times more pigs killed in the US annually than bears in the US and Canada combined.
Brucellosis and a few other microbes are potential problems. Wear neoprene gloves and try not to cut yourself when you're cleaning/butchering the meat, cook to an internal temp of 150 or 155 and you're good to do.
I know Alabama Marine Resources has had a battle with them before, I don’t think they do it as much anymore as the older shrimpers have passed on and the younger generations have either gotten out of the business or were born here and tend to follow the law a little closer.Hunt anything: I believe All sea gulls are Federally Protected in the U.S. - same as hawks, owls, eagles, vultures. I’m surprised Fish & Wildlife haven’t ticketed & fined these guys
So we live close together obviously.Doesn’t have anything to do with pork but we have some Vietnamese shrimpers in Bayou Labatre and they will catch laughing gulls, ring their necks , pluck them and hang them on their rigging in the scorching Alabama sun to age and gut them later and cook them for supper.
Baldwin countySo we live close together obviously.
In the US, nematodes (trichinella is a nematode/roundworm) and pork tapeworms were eradicated from the domestic hog population around the same time as swine flu. Swine flu was transferred easily between farm hogs and feral hogs, mortality rate is close enough to 100% as to be meaningless. Feral hogs that carried worms and got swine flu died.What you report is very interesting.
Especially that these pigs don't have trichinosis, is that a reliable finding?
Why would an omnivore in the USA not have one?
Do you know the reason for this?
In Germany, every wild boar must be tested for trichinosis by the official veterinarian and, since Chernobyl, for radioactivity; here in Bavaria, this meat is no longer allowed to be sold if it contains more than 600 Becquerel per kg. Burcellosis is unknown in our wild boar.
And yes, apart from the boars in the rut, they taste delicious.
All of them. But the best-with distance- are in the 15- 30kg class.(clear on the hook)
The big ones get into the sausage
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