Thread: Wild pork, any good for ham?

Originally Posted by Phil_H

Oh you are a real joy @outlander........just when my tastebuds were starting to drool over the discussion of good cooked wild pork.....

Cheers
Phil

Eat up.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

Here’s a trailer load of pig dump bait. Believe me, when they’ve been on this kind of thing (they like to leave it a while to make sure it’s properly rotten), you won’t want to be preparing them for the table... it’s also worth pointing out that the mob of pigs that cleaned this lot up went through it in 2 days. Couple of huge sows and half a dozen medium-sized “eating” pigs. We know this because we had two video cameras on the dump.

The pickiest pig eaters I know are all pig hunters. Very, very selective as to what they will choose to eat for themselves.

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Should we start calling you 'Brick Top' Flyblown ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUynRdzzsM

if you want a really good ham....take back wheels off a mutton in to butcher....you dont get the yummy fat as you do with pork but the meat is primo eating....ruapehu pork...well I grew up in kaitieke and there was NOTHING wrong with any wild pork from around there,either dog held n stuck...dog bailed and shot..or shot outright... boar up to 80 lb or sow up to hundy is the very best eating of all.

Maybe it’s all psychological. Just a “thing”. We are spoilt I guess. Free range beef, lamb & mutton, venison, domestic pork, goat, kai moana. You’re probably right fellas, maybe there’s nothing wrong with the 3 week dead calf munching feral pig. But I don’t like it! Neither do the wife & kids, and a few of the other lads will eat dump pigs. When you spend enough time carting dead stock up and down the hill and inspecting dumps for pig sign and retrieving video camera cards, and generally being surrounded by the smell of death, then I guess animals from fresh, green parts of the valley are quite a lot more attractive.

you can certainly tell when they have been eating avocados, the fat stays runny

Originally Posted by mimms2

If dogging pigs the meat will be adrenaline shot. That's pretty yuck.

Always prefer shooting animals with a mouth full of feed and their tail wagging, dead before they know it. Happy meat is good meat.

You can hook the carcasses up to the elctric fence for a while and "tenderise" them again.

No dogs here, shoot them while they are grazing the paddocks.