[Sca-cooks] e: [Sca-cooks]OOP Wild Pigs in America? was: Wild pigs WAS Camels

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Hogs go feral at the drop of a fence, and revert to their default nasty
feral form in just a generation or two. Given the number of hogs gone
native, I doubt that any of the wild strains don't have something in the
pigpen . . . The legendary Ozark Razorbacks, I am told, got a lot of its
size from the Poland China hogs that got loose from the early settlers. Or
it could be one of them damyankee stories . . .
    Pigs were used locally to clear out an island full of rattlers back in
the settler days here - they dumped a herd of hogs ashore, and just let 'em
run. In a year the island was clear of snakes, and the pigs were nice & fat.
Needless to say, the island was soon very popular with hunters, as their
meat was said to be especially sweet & succulent . . .

    Sieggy

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> Christina Nevin schrieb:

> I can see how wild boars are very, very scary
> critters. However, I was not aware that they were
> native to the Americas. Are we talking of the
> Eurasian wild boar (our local northern variety),
> sus scrofa? Or are those feral domestic pigs
> (presumably of a 17th or 18th century breed, not
> those modern pink tubs of lard)? They taste
> completely different, and the European market for
> 'wild pig' is exclusively for sus scrofa. Other
> breeds of pig are sold as 'pork', though the
> historic breeds fetch higher prices.