Monster Gator

[reynoldston]

As for wild hogs many parts of the South are over run with wild hogs. I have known people to trap and kill as many as 40 hogs in one trap in one day.

The hogs are comeing into southern New York. I guess they are doing a lot of damage so they have made a open hunting hunting season on them. Just that can you do with a wild hog, is it fit to eat?

 

[Ric]

The hogs are comeing into southern New York. I guess they are doing a lot of damage so they have made a open hunting hunting season on them. Just that can you do with a wild hog, is it fit to eat?

Best eating in the world if you like ham, sausage oh and don't forget the brain. I guess you never heard about cleaning a hog. The only part of the hog that is wasted when you dress or clean it for eating is the (Squeal)

 

[RobertBrown]

Crocodylus niloticus

 

[jekjr]

Now I know about domestic raised pigs and have raised them myself. I know what I fed them and castrated the males.
I sure didn't eat the brain. I was just wondering about a wild hogs seeing they would eat anything and the males not
castrated if the meat would be a lot stronger tasting and not fit to eat? Now when it came time to eat the domestic
pigs I just loaded into a truck and brought them to the butcher shop and picked up the meat after a few days all packaged.
No heads, brain, or guts other then the liver.

In Alabama once you trap them you have to kill them. There is like an $800 per hog fine if you are caught moving them alive.

One sow can have 8 or more pigs and she will do that 2 to 3 times a year. By the time she is ready to drop her third litter the females she had in the first litter are bred and getting close to having their first litter. As you can tell by that the multiplication factor of wild hogs is incredible.

 

[Ric]

Best eating in the world if you like ham, sausage oh and don't forget the brain. I guess you never heard about cleaning a hog. The only part of the hog that is wasted when you dress or clean it for eating is the (Squeal)

Now I know about domestic raised pigs and have raised them myself. I know what I fed them and castrated the males.
I sure didn't eat the brain. I was just wondering about a wild hogs seeing they would eat anything and the males not
castrated if the meat would be a lot stronger tasting and not fit to eat? Now when it came time to eat the domestic
pigs I just loaded into a truck and brought them to the butcher shop and picked up the meat after a few days all packaged.
No heads, brain, or guts other then the liver.

You should do anything different with a wild pig than a domestic. If your hunting them and kill one the first thing is to castrate if male, cut the throat and let them bleed and if you prefer a butcher and can find one let them do it or do dress it your self. Actually the wild pig is better eating than the domestic, same with turkey. If you're worried about the strong or game taste when your through throw the meat into a big garbage bucket with a little salt and water and let it soak over night clean it the next morning and put it in the deep freeze. Now that Gator he eats the squeal too, he don't waste nothin.

 

[midnite rider]

Some facts on crocodilians:

The crocodilians, which include alligators, caimans, crocodiles and the gavial, are living fossils -- swamp dwelling survivors from the Age of Reptiles when dinosaurs ruled the earth. Almost every tropical country has one or more kinds of them and in Columbia, South America, there are seven or eight. Only the two species of alligators live in more temperate regions: one in the United States and the other, almost extinct, in the Yangtze valley of China.

The American Alligator is now common only in the watery interior of Florida, the great Okefenokee Swamp of southern Georgia and the Louisiana bayous. The American Crocodile, of which a few remain in Everglades National Park and the Florida Keys, ranges through the West Indies and from southern Mexico to Ecuador. The most obvious difference between them is that an alligator's snout is much broader. The crocodile is far more vicious.

An alligator grows rapidly. By the end of the first year, it is about 18 inches in length. In five years it may become six feet long. In the 1700's the naturalist, William Bartram, reported alligators so thick in the St. Johns River, Florida, that he could have crossed that broad stream by walking on their backs and some measured 20 feet in length. Nowadays their numbers have been greatly reduced and few get to be more than 10 feet long. Unless it is teased, or guarding its nest, an alligator will rarely attack a person.

 

[RobertBrown]

this is a Gator

http://www.lawnmowerforum.com/front-porch/6110-winters-coming-14.html#post51140

 

[Bison]

That ain't no gator. That's a crocodile!
I suspect you have been mislead.
My guess is that pic is from South Africa.
The pig is a wart hog.

It don't look a wart hog to me,..Wart hogs don't get that size either

The gator misses part of its tail.

 

[RobertBrown]

It don't look a wart hog to me,..Wart hogs don't get that size either

The gator misses part of its tail.

It's a Nile crocodile...........with a Wart hog in it's mouth.

 

[Bison]

It's a Nile crocodile...........with a Wart hog in it's mouth.

A warthog has a long reddish mane on it's neck and tusks in both upper and lower jaw,.....did you see any mane in the pic?
A croc has a longer narrower snouth than the gator.

Conclusion,... its a gator with a feral or wild hog in his jaws.:tongue: