OMG that pig meat is GOOD!!

[onthespot]

my friend has a potbellied pig boar that has suddenly started attacking her and she was going to have him euthanized, and I was wondering if you can eat boar meat. He is not all fat like a typical potbelly, in fact, to my eye, he looks just right and I told her I would split the processing fee to split the meat. Any reason this is a bad idea? She would have it professionally done, as neither of us are up to tackling him ourselves.

 

[yardbird tx]

I don't really have a place to raise a pig ether. But I do go out looking for them in the woods and here in Texas we have a lot of them in the woods. Got lots of hog meat in the frizzier.

 

[Rte.66_chicks]

I have had home-raised pork, and agree that it is infinitely better than store bought. I would love to raise one for meat, but my DH won't eat things we've raised. I have trouble figuring that one out-"I will eat pork that is raised in crowded, unnatural conditions, that may never even see the light of day, but not a pig we've raised, because it's too much like eating one of our cats or dogs." He hasn't actually said that, but I know that is his thinking. He even has trouble eating things made with the stock I have made from old hens and ninja roosters.

 

[hatchaholic]

yardbird, my DH will be so jealous when I show him this pic!! Nice shot!!

onthespot - the processor was talking about people processing potbellied pigs. But, with uncut boars, from what I've heard, the meat has a very strong taste. Best used in sausage and pepporoni.

 

[sara]

I agree! We did our first pigs a month or so ago, and it is so yummy. Just waiting for a steer to be ready to butcher!

 

[greyfields]

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I've watched my pigs be processed before. They use an eletric stunning device on the normal/small ones. It only renders them unconcious. They are hung up by their hocks and the throat is cut. That's how they die, bleeding to death while not really aware of what's going on.

For the larger animals (including old cull sows), they use the same bolt gun they use on the cows before stringing them up.

I've never heard of anyone using electricity as the actually killing mechanism. I think some people confuse the stunning device (which is also used on lambs and goats).

 

[SterlingAcres]

My parents raised hogs this past spring and summer. They gave us ham, bacon and sausage... none of which I'm a big fan of... until I tasted them.

I <3 pig. What was I thinking all those years of not eating it? LOL!

We'll be getting some porkers to raise come spring. I'm thinking maybe 6.

 

[greyfields]

I did 9 this year after doing 6 the year before. All I say is that they get very brave in larger numbers. It's good thing they are terrified of our border collie or they'd have caused far more chaos than they did.

 

[rooster0209]

There isnt much better than fresh pork!

We raise our own beef cattle, so we always have fresh beef. The taste of fresh beef is awesome too.

 

[hatchaholic]

Quote:
I've watched my pigs be processed before. They use an eletric stunning device on the normal/small ones. It only renders them unconcious. They are hung up by their hocks and the throat is cut. That's how they die, bleeding to death while not really aware of what's going on.

For the larger animals (including old cull sows), they use the same bolt gun they use on the cows before stringing them up.

I've never heard of anyone using electricity as the actually killing mechanism. I think some people confuse the stunning device (which is also used on lambs and goats).

Yeah, I know the electricity doesn't actually kill them. Just left out the details about the whole stunning then slitting thing. Didn't want to open up the whole "humane" debate, ya know? Sorry if I wasn't clear.