Are wild hogs good to eat?

[jr_roosa]

Be careful with food safety. They can get all the same parasites that domestic pigs can get, but they don't get the drugs and inspection.

If you see little blister-like cysts in the meat when you butcher it, you should probably toss it out. Even if you don't see them, cook well.

The bummer is that if you eat the raw meat and get a pork tapeworm, it probably won't bother you very much. You become a source of eggs and your family members can get this:

The black spots are holes in the brain with a little worm inside.

-J.

 

[Bazooka Joe71]

jr roosa,

huh?

The bummer is that if you eat the raw meat and get a pork tapeworm, it probably won't bother you very much. You become a source of eggs and your family members can get this:

What do you mean?

 

[jr_roosa]

You eat the cysts and a tapeworm hatches and grows in your intestines. The tapeworm spews out millions of eggs. If a human eats the eggs, they hatch and burrow into your body and some can end up in your brain. The image is a brain CT scan showing lots of little worms in somebody's brain.

Bad stuff. No really good treatment.

-J.

 

[MCgunner]

This is one reason, port diseases and parasites, that I don't jerk pork. Any pork I prepare has been cooked thoroughly at much higher temperatures than jerking. I don't KNOW that jerking pork is a no, no, but better to err on the side of safety and leave jerking to the venison.

 

[oklahoma caveman]

hog is good just as they have posted before me depends on size. if your after a trophy size boar then the meat probably wont be to good. when im after a meat hog i try to keep them under 150. not to hard around here. GREAT eatin

 

[bl4ckd0g]

I'd rather live trap the piggy and raise for a while on clean feed and Ivermectin before slaughtering it.

 

[rdela29]

jr roosa -

You have ruined it for me. But thanks for the heads up.



I think.

 

[jr_roosa]

Oh, no! You should definitely eat the wild pork! It's really tasty! It's perfectly safe if you cook it to around medium well or more, which most people do anyway. You just have to be careful that you're cooking the meat properly, cleaning up your raw meat preparation area, and washing your hands...all things you should be doing anyway even with grocery store pork.

The world is full of dangerous stuff, but that's no reason not to have fun. You just have to be smart and minimize the risks you can. That's why we have rules of gun safety and rules of food safety, etc.

It's likely that the wild pigs in Texas have no parasites whatsoever, I was just saying that being wild, they might, and therefore you need to take care.

If that doesn't make you feel better about it, then I sincerely apologize for taking a potentially tasty dish off your menu. I am so sorry.

The CT with the hundreds of worms was probably from somebody who lived in a country with very poor food sanitation, and years of chronic exposure to eggs from infected cooks who never washed hands after a trip to the john.

-J.

 

[qajaq59]

Most anything is good to eat if you clean and cook it properly. Hogs included.

 

[ronwill]

I hunt wild hogs with my Hawken 50. The meat is very good, just make sure you cook it thoroughly. Cleanliness when handling the hog is also very important.

 

[Marlin 45 carbine]

a large (over say 250 lbs live weight) boar maybe you should cull the meat and mount the head if good tusks. a sow or smaller boar is good eating if they have been around plentiful food which is most any kind of roots, many plants, wild fruit or berries, acorns, mast. if you are lucky enough to find them on an old farm with orchards it is very good after they have been feeding on the fruit for awhile. apple orchard fed ones are very tasty. or cabbage patch, corn field, squash or pumpkin - that sort of food source. I shot a 300 lb. sow few years back that had fed around farmland and orchards. best grilled and sauced pork chops I've ever eaten. cook it well however, at least 170*

 

[Omaney]

MMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!...pork.