Really to hot to wanna mess with a hog right now IMHO. Depending on your knife skills pulling the backstops & leaving the rest is doable. Bigger aint better for eating. If you do it go strain on ice or the smoker. Brining it not a bad idea.Ima have to set up a hunt, hopefully this time they dont have worms, i wanna eat one of these hogs lol. Does anyone have like a checklist for checking if a hog is safe to eat. I will be smoking most of the meat’s harvested.
Also carry brucellosis. Wear gloves.
Wait until it gets cold before harvesting pig meat...as has been repeated, and repeated...
I didn't consider that...As for "all natural", the hogs on the last hunting lease I was on had about an inch of fat on them from eating up the tons of corn we put out. Deer corn has all sorts of warning labels on it because it has all the GMO designs that health experts warn about. That wouldn't warn me off, but just pointing out that it's there.
i watched a few videos, i like this guy from florida and how he explains it and cleans themReally to hot to wanna mess with a hog right now IMHO. Depending on your knife skills pulling the backstops & leaving the rest is doable. Bigger aint better for eating. If you do it go strain on ice or the smoker. Brining it not a bad idea.
Personally I can't go out to check the mail without getting ate up with chiggers right now. Feral hogs have a high probability of lithe chiggers fleas & ticks
If you never processed a hog watch some videos, as they are a lot of work.
Right now drop & rot is the way to roll.