Tehema Hog Down

[bayedsolid]

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We get big hogs,but not to many with big tusks.You may shoot a 300+ pound boar with fairly small teeth.I don't know why,good feed and crappy genetics I guess.[/b]

I would bet it is not so much good feed as it is more of the domestic genetics in the area. The belted hogs are Hampshire genetics. If you take a "pure" Russian hog and raise it with the same feed as a "pure" Hampshire domestic hog, the domestic will grow much bigger and much faster due to it's genetics. The same way as a Great Dane will grow bigger than a Coyote. There belted hogs with good teeth are out there but if you are in an area that has the belted color showing with regularity, then I would say that there is more of the Hampshire gene in those hogs. All the hogs out there have domestic genes in them of varying percentages, from one breed or another. Some areas just have more of the European gene and some have more of the domestic. From my experience, when you find a belted hog with good teeth it is usually a throw back in that particular hog with the color phase and not so much a dominate trait of the hogs in the area. If you are finding large hogs with crappy teeth then I would say that area has a higher percentage of domestic and you probably won't find too many hogs in the area with good 'cutters'.

 

[SacFireJT]

As stated before, this area does hold quite a few "belted" B&W hogs...but there are some monsters in the region as well. Here are a few pictures of boars my neighbor has taken on his ranch in Tehema Co. Today, he let's every big boar walk, because of the quality of the meat.

 

[beastslayer]

SacFire and Bayedsolid,

Which has the better meat hog then, the high domestic blood line or the purer wild Russian?

 

[SacFireJT]

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SacFire and Bayedsolid,

Which has the better meat hog then, the high domestic blood line or the purer wild Russian?[/b]

You got me?

 

[bayedsolid]

I think most everything out there is crossed up enough to all taste about the same from what I've experienced. You might see a color difference but I doubt you'll notice a taste difference. Most of that would depend on what they are feeding on.

 

[Duknutz]

Now for the meat quality,Weve killed alot of hogs on this particular ranch.And we haven't had a bad tasting one yet.150 lb meat hog to a 325 lb boar,they have all been consistant,GOOD.Also doesnt seem to matter what time of year.Probably because of the domestic influence in them.Now, where we used to hunt out of Healdsburg.It was hit or miss on the flavor,sometimes good,sometimes bad.Probably has to do with the acorn batch.
We still get the Tuskers sometimes,and they usually are of the black frosted color,longer snout with the dominant hair ridge on the back.

 

[RIFLEMAN]

Which has the better meat hog then, the high domestic blood line or the purer wild Russian?

The palatability has less to do with the ancestry and more to do with what they have been eating in recent months in my opinion. "You are what you eat" is oh so true with feral hogs in my experience.

 

[larrysogla]

I totally agree. Even the deer we harvested last year tasted and smelled very, very good as it was feeding heavily on a carpet of acorns on the ground. 'Nuff said.