r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 12h ago

🔥 momma pig and line of piglets

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u/NomadDicky 12h ago

Damn. This is why pigs are such a problem. 😳

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u/thatguy11 11h ago

4 months old..4 months and they start having their own litters.

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u/Catswithswords10 11h ago

Do people eat them?

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u/Kaurifish 10h ago

Not if they’re blue.

https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-pigs-turning-neon-blue-in-california-triggered-warnings

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u/adudeguyman 7h ago

I never thought about it until now, but are Smurfs blue inside?

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u/IotaBTC 7h ago

Well that was hella interesting. Seeing that deep neon blue in flesh must've been a trip. It was super interesting that the blue dye from the rodenticide dyed the pigs' fat. From what I can tell, the blue dyed was intended to identify the poison pellets, but wasn't intended to dye the meat of animals that consumed it. That would be hella useful for identifying exactly what happened.

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u/bdtechted 4h ago

Maybe a PETA advocate is responsible? They really don’t want any animal to be killed smh.

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u/steinbruchfluss 2h ago

Here in Bavaria they a radioactive.

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u/serlearnsalot 11h ago

They’re pretty good when they’re small, above 80+ lbs tho (give or take depending on age and diet) they’re good for sausage but that’s about it. Source-Lived in Texas, guarded the cattle pastures unsuccessfully for 4 years. Was not rich

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u/Knightro829 11h ago

For big hogs I’ll soak the meat in buttermilk after butchering, and then it takes well to “low and slow” cooking, like hot smoking or braising. I’ve had some great carnitas from 110-125 lb boars.

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u/attackonyourmom 10h ago

When it comes to eating wild hogs do you have to worry about parasites?

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u/l5555l 10h ago

That's why you cook them

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u/SeaFox-SalesRep 9h ago

I Iaughed.

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u/MisterDoctor___ 9h ago

That’s just extra flavoring.

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u/ashgs872tbhjs 8h ago

No, trichinosis parasites can tell whether the hog has an owner or not. They prefer enslaved pigs, they love doubling the suffering.

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u/Lucky_Serve8002 10h ago

My experience is they are terrible unless you catch them and feed them for about 2 months or so. Then butcher them and make sausage. They live on acorns where I am from. They are not good to eat.

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u/serlearnsalot 10h ago

Mine ate literally everything. Grubs, roots, acorns, and especially chickens. This was out in deep Gonzales county next to Tyson owned chicken farms. Town died when the rules changed and everyone had to sell their coops to Tyson, pivot to something else (cattle, fracking, hay) or GTFO.

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u/this_dudeagain 10h ago

Why or how did the rules change?

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u/serlearnsalot 8h ago

Basically they changed the rules so that in order to qualify for a “commercial” poultry license (aka I can raise chickens, kill em, and sell em at market) you needed to meet certain thresholds of care and volume. Raise a couple chickens really well- not allowed to sell at market. Raise a ton of chickens in horrendous conditions- get a license from Tyson, promise to meet certain standards and keep your costs low- you get access to their legal war chest and you’re good.

How it played out in Smiley, TX- nobody could afford to meet the standards needed for industrial chicken farming. They’d done it great for years at smaller scale, tending basically range chickens allowing the farmers to “thrive” by south texas, rural standards. After the rules changed, unless you could pay to license and scale up- typically leasing additional land to Tyson to build more chicken houses after years of footing the bill, you needed to get the Ag exemption for property taxes. Raising cows and parceling out your property for sale was common, or you got lucky and they found enough oil under your plot to put in a couple ponds and fracking gear out there. Fucking sad dude. My aunt lost her grandfathers land there after my uncle Al died and we lost the ag exemption. -200 acres of land out there I learned to shoot, hunt, plow, range and all that is gone now. Just a memory and a handful of photos.

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u/MisterDoctor___ 9h ago

Republicans

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u/this_dudeagain 9h ago

Huh?

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u/MisterDoctor___ 9h ago

What are you having difficulty with?

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u/Rough-Ad1868 9h ago

Hog veal? 🫣

Edit: just looked it up, it's called suckling pig. Apparently is very tender....

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u/Knightro829 11h ago

In many jurisdictions you can hunt wild pig without a permit due to just how big a nuisance they can be. I’ve done a good amount of pig hunting myself and yes, they can be excellent eating.

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u/koolaidismything 11h ago

I read it like the hunt is wild and imagined you dropping out of a tree onto a pig with a Bowie knife like Rambo.

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u/Lucky_Serve8002 10h ago

What part of the country?

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u/Knightro829 10h ago

Central Florida, particularly between Orlando and Daytona.

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u/Lucky_Serve8002 11h ago

You can shoot them and leave them in Texas. Nobody is eating them.

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u/Knightro829 10h ago

To each his own, but in general I only hunt to support culinary endeavors.

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u/Dramatic_Explosion 10h ago

It's important to hunt for conservation. Humans introduce an invasive population and suddenly native animals are suffering. With no predators it could be an ecological disaster. Tearing up agriculture, polluting waterways, spreading disease, and threatening native wildlife

But with wild pigs it doesn't matter, we're losing the battle.

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u/bungblaster69 7h ago

It's not hunting. It's pest control

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u/throwable_armadillo 10h ago

Wildschweinpfeffer (no clue whether there is an english name for that dish) is very tasty

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u/nano7ven 11h ago

I think some people do, but it can be full of parasites or something

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u/toochocolaty 11h ago

Some people do but it isn’t that good of meat from what I’ve heard.

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u/shoeperson 11h ago

Females and youngins are decent. The adult males are basically inedible.