Originally Posted by FishinRod
Originally Posted by Pat Williamson
Rusto we eat them , 100# or less and they good ground up or quartered up and bbq. The key is if they smell gamey then they won’t taste to good , I’ve killed boars 150# that had no smell and were edible. 25-40# were more tender to BBQ and were as tasty as a pork butt from the store, Do the smell check and you should be fine

Pat,

When eating the small hogs (25-40#) Texas BBQ style, are the females better tasting, or are the males just as good before they become testosterone-filled beasts?
I have found that as long as the piggie doesn’t have that musty smell they will be fine, I hav cleaned and eaten pigs up to 150# that didn’t smell and they were fine. Boars we’re just as tasty as sows . Have killed sows that were rank smelling that we passed on. If they are actively breeding both boar and sows ain’t fit for eating. I shoot them in the head when going for eating.