Originally Posted by 1436 (Post 405996)

Were those first five months that spectacular?

Originally Posted by 1436 (Post 405987)

Feral hogs taste more like domesticated pig than wild boar because they are domesticated pigs that have gone feral. Good filler for venison sausage.

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 406000)

Real and spectacular.

Originally Posted by 1436 (Post 405986)

We've had feral hog problems for decades. They will destroy acres of good pasture in just a few months. You may want to be a bit more active in dealing with them or they will set up camp and stay.

Choose your weapon carefully. Those things don't drop easily and they tend to get mad when shot.

For as long as I can remember they are the only justification for keeping a gun in the truck at all times. Snakes are a necessary part of the ecosystem, in most cases. Javelina are OK if smoked long enough, but are a bit lean for sausage. Everything else you may want to shoot has a season. Feral hogs are a nuisance and our neighbors would consider us negligent if if we didn't keep them at bay.

Originally Posted by 1436 (Post 405994)

I'm not a rancher, just a property owner. The guy who runs cattle on our land runs cattle on several thousand acres in the area and makes out a decent living.

My understanding is that they raise the cattle to a certain age and then take them to a feed lot to be fattened, by the method you mention, before butchering.

Most of the beef in our freezer actually comes from another part of the state where another family member raises a few calves every year and lets us buy one at a bit under market price. They never see a feed lot and go straight from pasture (with some hand feeding) to butchering. Due to the drought this summer he sold the calves early on when his pasture was hurting and the cost of feed and hay sky rocketed. Luckily the acorn harvest looks good so the deer should be fat in a few weeks.

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 406006)

Almost exactly the same for us except we run our own cows. We sold off most of the calves in June, I think, which is way, way early. We're looking into a deal with a local butcher that wants to do only grass fed cattle.

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 406004)

Well, part of the "hide instead of shoot" plan analysis was that the only weapons we had on hand were shotguns. They would have just pissed them off.

I suspect the ranch manager, whose arsenal is larger, has pig roasts fairly regularly.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 406003)

Seeing this episode in reruns always bothers me, because after seeing her tits in the craptastic Heaven's Prisoners (released like 2-3 years after this episode), I knew they were the opposite of spectacular.

TM

Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 406009)

I know I technically live in the same state as you, but the closest I get to wildlife is driving over the Congress Avenue bridge.

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen (Post 406015)

Bats!!

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 406006)

Almost exactly the same for us except we run our own cows. We sold off most of the calves in June, I think, which is way, way early. We're looking into a deal with a local butcher that wants to do only grass fed cattle.

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 406020)

I'm trying to find another couple or two to split a grass-fed cow with me.

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 406023)

I suggest a key party.

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 406024)

I'm not in the 'burbs...yet.