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anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« on: December 01, 2015, 04:10:59 PM »
My old boss wants to give me a 400lb boar hog. They aren't using him for breeding anymore, and haven't for a couple months. They raise high quality pigs, so my question is do you think he will be edible if I make the whole thing into sausage?

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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2015, 04:29:17 PM »
Yes - take it for sure.  Good for slow cooked roasts, moist heat cooking methods, and anything ground. 
As long as we have the habitat, we can argue forever about who gets to kill what and when.  No habitat = no game.

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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2015, 04:57:14 PM »
You can get a biopsy punch and use it to cut a plug off the boars back fat to see if it has boar taint

2mm would be big enough of a punch, once you have 2-3 small plugs of back fat put it in the skillet and see if it smells like you're cooking a wet diaper. 

http://www.bettymills.com/shop/product/view/McKesson/MON16982525.html?utm_source=cpc-strat&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=parts&utm_keyword=MON16982525&utm_content=Medical&gclid=COaW6JL7u8kCFQtBfgodPpkC_Q

If it smells perfectly fine then butcher it up, or fatten a bit more but make sure no sows are around to prevent androstenone and don't keep him in a small pen wallowing in his own feces that'll build up skatole and make it more likely to have boar taint. 


*IF* it smells like you're frying a sponge soaked with urine then you'll need to neuter the boar.  I did this to mine about 3 months ago he stank.  cut the feed back to just enough for the boar to survive which if he's a breeder he's probably already lean anyways.  Cut them nuts off (have a vet do it if you're uncertain) then after a month of low feed and good clean ground for the hog to be on start fattening him up with good feed, I like molasses in my feed. 

I built a steel box to lock the boar in for cutting his balls off.  If you need advice for doing that then ummm   get a vet  :chuckle:

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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2015, 05:08:42 PM »
You can get a biopsy punch and use it to cut a plug off the boars back fat to see if it has boar taint

2mm would be big enough of a punch, once you have 2-3 small plugs of back fat put it in the skillet and see if it smells like you're cooking a wet diaper. 

http://www.bettymills.com/shop/product/view/McKesson/MON16982525.html?utm_source=cpc-strat&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=parts&utm_keyword=MON16982525&utm_content=Medical&gclid=COaW6JL7u8kCFQtBfgodPpkC_Q

If it smells perfectly fine then butcher it up, or fatten a bit more but make sure no sows are around to prevent androstenone and don't keep him in a small pen wallowing in his own feces that'll build up skatole and make it more likely to have boar taint. 


*IF* it smells like you're frying a sponge soaked with urine then you'll need to neuter the boar.  I did this to mine about 3 months ago he stank.  cut the feed back to just enough for the boar to survive which if he's a breeder he's probably already lean anyways.  Cut them nuts off (have a vet do it if you're uncertain) then after a month of low feed and good clean ground for the hog to be on start fattening him up with good feed, I like molasses in my feed. 

I built a steel box to lock the boar in for cutting his balls off.  If you need advice for doing that then ummm   get a vet  :chuckle:

I've neutered 60-80# 4h Hogs!  I couldn't imagine a 400# boar.  Jeepers.
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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2015, 05:14:03 PM »
You can get a biopsy punch and use it to cut a plug off the boars back fat to see if it has boar taint

2mm would be big enough of a punch, once you have 2-3 small plugs of back fat put it in the skillet and see if it smells like you're cooking a wet diaper. 

http://www.bettymills.com/shop/product/view/McKesson/MON16982525.html?utm_source=cpc-strat&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=parts&utm_keyword=MON16982525&utm_content=Medical&gclid=COaW6JL7u8kCFQtBfgodPpkC_Q

If it smells perfectly fine then butcher it up, or fatten a bit more but make sure no sows are around to prevent androstenone and don't keep him in a small pen wallowing in his own feces that'll build up skatole and make it more likely to have boar taint. 


*IF* it smells like you're frying a sponge soaked with urine then you'll need to neuter the boar.  I did this to mine about 3 months ago he stank.  cut the feed back to just enough for the boar to survive which if he's a breeder he's probably already lean anyways.  Cut them nuts off (have a vet do it if you're uncertain) then after a month of low feed and good clean ground for the hog to be on start fattening him up with good feed, I like molasses in my feed. 

I built a steel box to lock the boar in for cutting his balls off.  If you need advice for doing that then ummm   get a vet  :chuckle:

I've neutered 60-80# 4h Hogs!  I couldn't imagine a 400# boar.  Jeepers.
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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2015, 05:15:48 PM »
I have ate a lot of big wild boars. They are pretty much only good for sausage and slow cooker stuff like said. Most big pen raised boars I have been around that have been killed for meat. Have had a ammonia like smell to them with a off taste to them like KF is talking about.
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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2015, 05:19:23 PM »
I did it in two stages, the first nut I just roped him and tied it off but it was a little hairy. He tried to destroy my tractor.

The 2nd nut I had built a hog box and started feeding him in there so the 2nd nut wasn't any big deal.  He kept eating while I was cutting, I don't think they have a lot of nerves on their balls.



This boar is well north of 500 lb's with tusks coming out the side a few inches, he's a beast.

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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #7 on: December 01, 2015, 05:20:59 PM »
I have ate a lot of big wild boars. They are pretty much only good for sausage and slow cooker stuff like said. Most big pen raised boars I have been around that have been killed for meat. Have had a ammonia like smell to them with a off taste to them like KF is talking about.

free range hogs don't get the skatole, that comes from their own feces and wallowing around in it.  It's a bacteria in their intestine that taint's everything

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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2015, 05:21:18 PM »
I did it in two stages, the first nut I just roped him and tied it off but it was a little hairy. He tried to destroy my tractor.

The 2nd nut I had built a hog box and started feeding him in there so the 2nd nut wasn't any big deal.  He kept eating while I was cutting, I don't think they have a lot of nerves on their balls.



This boar is well north of 500 lb's with tusks coming out the side a few inches, he's a beast.
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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2015, 08:06:31 PM »
I did it in two stages, the first nut I just roped him and tied it off but it was a little hairy. He tried to destroy my tractor.

The 2nd nut I had built a hog box and started feeding him in there so the 2nd nut wasn't any big deal.  He kept eating while I was cutting, I don't think they have a lot of nerves on their balls.



This boar is well north of 500 lb's with tusks coming out the side a few inches, he's a beast.
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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #11 on: December 02, 2015, 05:30:07 PM »
What about Trichinosis? Problems with worms like black bear?

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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #12 on: December 02, 2015, 06:18:12 PM »
Thanks for the info guys. I'm gonna go ahead and get him. Unfortunately I don't have time to cut him and feed him for a month. Were gonna go kill him next Friday and hope for the best!

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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #13 on: December 02, 2015, 06:44:23 PM »
take pictures  :chuckle:


I just fried some back fat and happy to report it's clean, super clean smelling.  So nice to not smell that old preservative meat smell from the grocery store.

It's not even near the same as grocery store.


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Re: anybody ever butchered and ate a boar?
« Reply #14 on: December 02, 2015, 08:02:45 PM »
You can get a biopsy punch and use it to cut a plug off the boars back fat to see if it has boar taint

2mm would be big enough of a punch, once you have 2-3 small plugs of back fat put it in the skillet and see if it smells like you're cooking a wet diaper. 

http://www.bettymills.com/shop/product/view/McKesson/MON16982525.html?utm_source=cpc-strat&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=parts&utm_keyword=MON16982525&utm_content=Medical&gclid=COaW6JL7u8kCFQtBfgodPpkC_Q

If it smells perfectly fine then butcher it up, or fatten a bit more but make sure no sows are around to prevent androstenone and don't keep him in a small pen wallowing in his own feces that'll build up skatole and make it more likely to have boar taint. 


*IF* it smells like you're frying a sponge soaked with urine then you'll need to neuter the boar.  I did this to mine about 3 months ago he stank.  cut the feed back to just enough for the boar to survive which if he's a breeder he's probably already lean anyways.  Cut them nuts off (have a vet do it if you're uncertain) then after a month of low feed and good clean ground for the hog to be on start fattening him up with good feed, I like molasses in my feed. 

I built a steel box to lock the boar in for cutting his balls off.  If you need advice for doing that then ummm   get a vet  :chuckle:

I've neutered 60-80# 4h Hogs!  I couldn't imagine a 400# boar.  Jeepers.
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