Baymule's 500 Pound Boar!

[Baymule]

That is one big pig... Looks like his back line is just below the wired portion of the gate. Hope he doesn't decide he wants out...

His back line is just ABOVE the wired portion of the fence. He is huge. But he is very calm and gentle. Still don't want to go in there and get up close and personal though. He was in a tiny pen made of scraps of wire, pallets and tin. He could have sneezed on it and blown it down.

 

[goatgurl]

I can't decide if you are crazy like a fox or just crazy. that is one huge hog. personally I vote you stay the heck out of his pen. toss hay in for him, mine loved it. I hope fat pigs can't jump 'cause he will be out of there like a shot if he decides. good luck with him crazy woman.
and @Southern by choice go to my journal and show your dh the picture of the last pig killed the other day back behind my house. no helicopter but he could have his choice of a tree stand or a tent blind. personally i'd rather be up in the tree just in case the pig gets ticked off. some folks think pigs can fly but i've never seen one. just heard about it

 

[RollingAcres]

I found a deal on a huge boar. His name is Wilbur and he is a Red Wattle. He got too big to breed their sows, so he went up for sale. The lady who owned him couldn’t put him in the freezer, he was her first pig and a pet. He is very calm and gentle. But she became afraid of Wilbur because he wanted to rub on her, affectionately, but because of his size, it was dangerous.

We picked him up today. I took boiled eggs and he walked up in the trailer to eat them. We unloaded him and he walked around his new pen.

He went in the Pig Palace and ate corn.

He is over 3 feet tall.

Wilbur is a BIG boy!

We’ll feed him soured corn, milk, alfalfa cubes and hay for 4-6 weeks, then take him to slaughter.

Oh my! He's HUGE and will be very tasty in 4-6 weeks time!

 

[Mike CHS]

I didn't realize you could flush them out that quickly

 

[Simpleterrier]

Grind him with a little bit more fat and can him. Smoke the belly and keep the loins. Plus he will have some big pork butts.

 

[Devonviolet]

There’s so many wild hogs here that I think you could fly over them and machine gun them and be declared a hero. Or maybe lob bombs at them in a mass killing.

That is so true! One year (before we moved here) the hogs were so bad, the land owner hired a helicopter. They rounded the wild hogs up in the 60 acre hay field next to our property. I think they ended up killing 17 large hogs that day.

A friend of the land owner owns some expensive night vision goggles. He goes out late at night & early in the morning to shoot hogs. Every once in a while we will hear shot gun blasts, and figure he's out there doin' his job.

Interesting. No one around here seems to want those wild hogs for meat. We've never seen them. But, we've seen the damage they do.

 

[greybeard]

My DH really wants to do the helicopter thing... you know where they hunt them from the copter. Yeah it's like $3000 !

Operation costs are high for a helicopter....I suspect the annual liability insurance they carry is pretty steep too.

Wife & I rode one at a county fair a few years ago just because....there was a very long line..it carried 3 people besides the pilot. We were airborne less than 20 minutes and it was $25/passenger.
He flew all day, carried hundreds of people. Made over $1000/day but I don't know how much of that is profit..

I did the hunting from helo thing already...where the hunted shoot back. I'll pass on the helo hog hunting.

 

[Southern by choice]

Operation costs are high for a helicopter....I suspect the annual liability insurance they carry is pretty steep too.

Wife & I rode one at a county fair a few years ago just because....there was a very long line..it carried 3 people besides the pilot. We were airborne less than 20 minutes and it was $25/passenger.
He flew all day, carried hundreds of people. Made over $1000/day but I don't know how much of that is profit..

I did the hunting from helo thing already...where the hunted shoot back. I'll pass on the helo hog hunting.

DH's dad was an Army pilot. I get your last statement. He was shot down several times. Never stopped hin from going back up though.
DH loves flying. It is in the blood. My DS is the one in the plane I took pics of awhile back. He wants to do something with the space program.
Seems like most of my kids are into the flying thing... one doesn't want to fly he wants to jump out of them.
The rest if they could with the exception of 2, would be on a shuttle to Mars if it were an option. (Don't know how I ended up with so many weirdos )

I'm a "keep those feet on the ground" kinda gal. Hate flying. Although it sure is pretty up in the clouds.

 

[Baymule]

Grind him with a little bit more fat and can him. Smoke the belly and keep the loins. Plus he will have some big pork butts.

Is it possible to can smoked links or do they have to be raw?

Plans are for pan sausage, about 20 pounds plain ground pork, pork chops, shoulder roasts and bacon.

 

[Baymule]

I can't decide if you are crazy like a fox or just crazy.

Make that crazy. Have been all my life-it works for me! LOL I find these huge hogs, nobody wants them, they go for cheap. That's a LOT of meat, everybody else sees big old hog, I see opportunity. I love smoked link sausage, NOT what you can buy in the store, but real, slow smoked with a hickory pile of coals, with some of the casing blackened...… That's some fine eating! Plus we raised those two Hereford hogs this summer and sold both. We NEED pork chops!!!

BJ said he's crazy too because he goes along with my insane schemes.