Ferguson K
Herd Master
My husband and I like to take working vacations. We typically help my dad around ithe ranch, 6500 acres of deer and wild hogs, with bigger projects has been putting off. This week we've been spending the HOT (in the 100s) days working on the remodel of his house and the nights/mornings stalking pigs.
Tuesday's stalk led us to a group of about 40 hogs. 10 or so adults, 10 or so juvenile, and 20 or so piglets from the sows. We watched them for a while, marked their location, and prepared ourselves for a stalk. That evening they didn't return. Instead we got a large black boar. He was cut up for coyote bait... to smelly to eat. Nothing like cooking up tainted hog meat...
By Thursday we realii a they had moved, so did we. To the pond out by the creek. We downed 14 pigs in a matter of minutes. I do believe we have a full freezer now! 10 of them were grill sized pigs, less than 40lbs. We cut them in half, they'll be grilled or smoked this way.
Gave one pig and one piglet to Juan for helping us cut them up, gave three little ones to my dad and a couple of hand because he wanted them. The rest will be going in my freezer.
Yummy!
Tuesday's stalk led us to a group of about 40 hogs. 10 or so adults, 10 or so juvenile, and 20 or so piglets from the sows. We watched them for a while, marked their location, and prepared ourselves for a stalk. That evening they didn't return. Instead we got a large black boar. He was cut up for coyote bait... to smelly to eat. Nothing like cooking up tainted hog meat...
By Thursday we realii a they had moved, so did we. To the pond out by the creek. We downed 14 pigs in a matter of minutes. I do believe we have a full freezer now! 10 of them were grill sized pigs, less than 40lbs. We cut them in half, they'll be grilled or smoked this way.
Gave one pig and one piglet to Juan for helping us cut them up, gave three little ones to my dad and a couple of hand because he wanted them. The rest will be going in my freezer.
Yummy!
