What do you do with dead hogs

[Duckologist]

The poll is flawed. Just cut out the backstraps still leaves room for leaving em for buzzards or hauling off to bone yard

[Gunnyart]

The poll is flawed. Just cut out the backstraps still leaves room for leaving em for buzzards or hauling off to bone yard

You aren’t limited to one choice in the poll.

[DaveC]

I know this will sound crazy but I never had hogs on my last place so I started the poll to understand better.
1) the backstrap aren’t worth the effort but the Hams are?
2) how long does it take for the carcass to basically disappear. I only have 10 acres and I don’t want a nasty pig pile building up.

If you are going to resort to dragging them toward the edge of your property. You need to cut the slashes in them as someone above recommended that way the predators can get to the goods quickly. Iit was a rule on a Groveton Lease I was on, otherwise if you throw them in the pile uncut, they just blow up, and nothing would eat them until they dissolved in their own goo.
We didn’t know this trick when I was on a Del Rio Rio lease. The uncut pig kills would be laying there looking like a 55 gallon drum with four legs sticking out a week or so later- the next time the gut dump was visited.

[Paycheck]

Drag off, after freezer is full.

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

Eat about 90% of the ones I kill. As long as there’s room in the freezer it’s going in there.

That meat is way to good to just leave for predators and scavengers.

Bingo. People throw them away and then eat crap from the store. Lol.

[bloodtrailer28]

Process them myself for the most part that wild pork is some **** good eats! If freezer is full or we want to shoot some yotes we will drag em off and stake em out.

[Nate Riley]

We let them lay most of the time, south of Texas. But if they are working cattle and have a bunch of day workers, we declare war and bring them back for the cowboys. Its an interesting experience to see those guys so thankful about something we consider a nuisance. And boy do they take all of its!

[Gunnyart]

We let them lay most of the time, south of Texas. But if they are working cattle and have a bunch of day workers, we declare war and bring them back for the cowboys. It’s an interesting experience to see those guys so thankful about something we consider a nuisance. And boy do they take all of its!

They claim you can eat everything but the oink.

[bpa556]

I keep what I need and attempt to give away the rest. Whatever isn’t claimed gets hauled to the bone-yard. The bone yard gets the vast majority…

[Nate Riley]

They claim you can eat everything but the oink.

My grandma (who obviously grew up in a different time) would say that they ate "everything but the squeal" LOL

[Greenheadless]

Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.

[Greenheadless]

F. Shoot them where they drag they’s selves off.

[Greenheadless]

Bingo. People throw them away and then eat crap from the store. Lol.

~85% of respondents disagree with your assessment apparently (at least at the time of me posting this)

[jdavidson]

I’ll eat every pig I kill in Victoria county (my home)

The ones from Webb Co ( my lease) I wouldn’t feed my dog

[DaveC]

I’ll eat every pig I kill in Victoria county (my home)

The ones from Webb Co ( my lease) I wouldn’t feed my dog

Is it a different quality of meat- or proximity to home?

Years ago, on a Del Rio lease the hogs (even sows) were tough as boot leather. I'll admit my culinary and prep skills are lacking.
But I could kill a pig and treat the meat the same way from my East Texas lease (I had at the same time) and the meat to my prepping was much more palatable and mo - tender.

I always assumed it was due to different terrain and diet - rocks and hills = more muscle vs flat and muddy dirt = more nutrition and less work for it.

The Brackettville hogs I have now are somewhere in the middle. Not as good as I remember the ET hogs being, but not as bad as the Delrio pigs either.
The last Bville hog was given to a Brother-in-law fresh from New York- his results were... it ate, but he could tell it wasn't store bought.

I would have preferred to gut pit it, but the lease boss frowns on it so I iced it up and gave it away....
I have since learned the landowner has a much different opinion of the pigs so....

Depending on what day it is on the trip and how much cooler space / ice I have on hand will dictate what happens to any future swine kills.