Wild Pigs

For those of you who have been following this blog for a long time, you will remember last year when we were trying to catch some wild pigs in a trap.  We went through  a lot of different ways of trying to set the trap and we didn’t catch anything but Jack one time and a couple of birds another time.  We finally just gave up and left the pigs alone.

We saw the pigs several times since then on walks and have heard and seen evidence of them running around the ranch.

This past week I was taking a morning walk and walked down towards the picnic area and lo and behold, there were two pigs in the trap.

 

I have never dealt with a pig before or any other wild animal so I didn’t know how to go about killing it and getting it ready for the butcher.   So we call a friend, Jerry Day and he came out and got the pigs ready for the meat market.  We took them down and now we have a lot of pork in the freezer.  Margaret and Jack are trying out the sausage tonight and I am going to try the pork chops.  I have heard that wild pigs are some mighty good eating.  I sure hope so.