what do you do with your pigs?

[bowhuntermac]

when we were trapping and killing a lot off the rice fields, we were catching more than we could possibly sell, eat, or giveaway.
While the market for live ones is good, not many people are looking for large quantities of pigs that were shot to doll rags. We were exterminating, not to be confused with hunting. There was simply no way to eat, sell, or clean them all. More than a couple wound up fertilizing the same fields they were destroying.

[Sippy]

if its under 125 we eat it, if its over then it lays in a field for the coyotes

[andy1clancy]

i feel better about my actions. we use 6 large traps and typically bring an AR-15 while filling feeders at night in the summer ( its cooler at night). we are getting tired of feeding pigs and would rather use our corn for deer

[trailboss]

Take pictures.

Trailboss

[TimHicks]

why dont you take them out alive and sell them live you can make some darn good money

[andy1clancy]

I was about to ask about this selling option. i would have to get a cattle trailer?

[TimHicks]

I have a small getter trailer that will pull behind a ruck or 4 wheeler and then I take them out and store them in a 20 closed top trailer and usually if I am trying and the hogs are moving good I get a trailer load and to the sale or certified highfence we go. I even have a few high fence ranches that will come to me

[jerp]

Of course I don't shoot near as many per year as a lot of you guys so keeping some of the meat from each one is not a problem.

[andy1clancy]

why would a high fence ranch want pigs? and where is 'the sale'? any around persal

[TimHicks]

Some high fence bowhunting ranch cant keep big pigs in them. Circle T bowhunting ranch and TexasS bowhunting ranch are in my area. They usually pay better for trophy hogs

[andy1clancy]

I will keep that in mind. but for now im not letting up on them thats for sure.

[mjhaverkamp]

we could feed the world with as many as we shoot, usually do not mess with them, we may try and trap some to sell, there is a man that traps and also quarantines hogs for a company that buys and ships the meat overseas that is near our ranch in Wichita Falls area.

[Fishndude]

I usually roll them in flour and check for.......oh nevermind!

[Dr. Evil]

When I was on a lease in Duval County, we had so many hogs, the landowner told us to kill everyone we could. I personally trapped and killed 70 during deer season alone. Some were cleaned and eaten, but most were coyote food. Needless to say, we had lots of coyotes and bobcat running around.

[stan]

If a freshly killed hog smells to high heaven, I leave him there. If he doesn't, I process and eat him, regardless of size.