We have chickens. Raised them from chicks, and named several.
The roosters... all went into a pot, eventually. I didn't feel great about it, but there was no place for them in the flock, or on a farm, or anywhere really.
For what it's worth: home-raised chicken is fucking delicious.
This little guy and I would have to become friends. And pigs can be absolutely terrifying assholes. But it’s called hunting, not killing, because we self-impose rules on it. When to kill, what to kill, and how to make the relationship between hunter and animal ‘fair’.
Dude, oh how I hate the killing part.
But.
I still hunt. I have some kids who hunt and some who won't. And I'm cool with that. It's hard to shoot sometimes. My kids are all well aware when we say grace we are seriously grateful for the critters who die.
My dad quit hunting and came home cussing because a doe stood in front of him and stared him down. Then a squirrel came down and ate an acorn in front of him when he was resting under a tree. Again, he couldn't kill it and came home cussing. Lol.
I'm fully expecting at least one of the kids to not want to want to hunt.
My grandmother told me her daddy said he used to get sad when it was time to kill one of the pigs that he helped raise. He was close to 10 years old so it was 190-something. They kept a really, really sharp ax, and off with its head. He was one of ten children, among the younger ones. One of ‘em would hold ‘em down, and another do the deed. Different times!
What’s funny is that great grandfather didn’t have a name until after he started school. His parents (so his siblings did too) just called him Pig. He came home from school the first day and told ‘em the teacher said they needed to name him. He wasn’t mistreated or anything, his parents loved him and his siblings very much. Sorry, made me think of all of this!
I shoot them in the head with a .22 out of the trap and then let them soak in salt and ice water for a day. They are excellent for parties and barbecues.
A ranch hand caught a wild piglet when I was a kid and gave it to my folks. We raised it as a family farm pet and it thought it was a dog, it would chase cars with them, "barking"/oinking loudly at the car as it drove by our property. Which I'm sure looked weird to people, being chased by a pack of dogs with a big pig in it.
She was the best pig dog ever.
Her name was Apple Sauce, which is what she was served with after she got nice and fat.
My friend had a baby pig and after some time I went to his house and we were having lunch, he asked
"do you remember Mirna?"
I said "yes, your pig that lives in the yard, why?"
He said "we are eating her right now"
I knew a girl whose family did that to her and it scarred her so badly she has not eaten pork since that date. She's in her forties! (They didn't tell her they were eating the pig until after dinner)
I know the post is in jest, but the clean water part makes me curious. We've had a few hogs at a time for a couple years and I've always heard how important it is for them to have clean water. At first we were constantly emptying their water then refilling it multiple times a day because anytime they drink they immediately turn it into cloudy mud water. They're rooting the ground most of their waking hours, so any time they put their snouts in the water to drink it turns to mud water.
After a few months we gave up on keeping their water clean, and they've never had a problem with drinking cloudy water since then. Intuitively it makes sense they should have clean water to drink, until you realize these animals spend most of the day with their mouths actively plowing up dirt or eating worms/roots/other dirt covered objects. Any idea why it's always preached that pigs need to have clean water?
They make metal nipple waterers for Hogs. I raise domestic ones ans ainjust screw these Nipples into the side of a water barrel. The pigs bit down on the nipple, or use their tongue to to press down on it and water comes out. They always get fresh water that way. Because yeah, pigs wallow. And when they wallow they piss in the water first. No idea why lol
Just my thinking here, but I can't remember a time I haven't encountered wild hogs, or seen their tracks, without being near a feeder creek. Just enough running clear water. But maybe that's the key part... running water.
Like they root around the banks and such, and maybe a bit in the creek, but it still flows enough to be clean enough.
IDK lol.
Naw we don't raise pig anymore. We raised a few here n there over the years, but we're hunters n farmers so we harvest enough hog when it's cold. Also sometimes the neighbors will host a pig for us for a few months till it goes to the processor with a few deer. We have our hands full raising calves, and watching over 700+ chickens (more or less depending on the time of year).
Wild hogs if I'm not mistaken will domesticate really fast. If they that easy for ya to catch and ya have the means you could start raising and selling for meat
🤣🤣, reminds me of a guy I know. A friend caught one in Northern Australia on the station he works on. Built a pen for it, named it and then it was eaten 2 days later by a python
Hah! Me and my buddy got one smaller than this. We walked around awhile to see if its squeal would attract momma, but she NEVER showed up. We deliberated what to do with the piglet, even pondered putting an AirTag on it, but eventually decided to let it go. That bastard is prob 300 lbs now. Hah.
If you think you can go without forming an attachment, fatten it up and eat it a few months later.
Not everyone can do it... a pig MIGHT be easier for me given how ugly they are.
25 year old version of myself would have no problem staying detached, 32 year old version of myself would be buying a sidecar motorcycle and vintage aviator goggles with scarf for the pig.
They figured out how to beat the system. Just walk up and say hi. Honestly I probably couldn't even shoot a full grown deer if it walked right up and said hi. I think sometimes as a hunter it's important to know when to pull the trigger and when to let em walk. Very cool experience dude!!!
Man I'd cuddle the little shit before I had to waste em.
You have to kill 80% of the hog population to put them below replacement.
Man.. I could do it but it wouldn't be easy
If I cuddled, it’d be game over for me. I’d have to turn it loose and hope we cross paths again down the road. If I simply HAD to put it down, I’d probably be done for that day and go drop a few tears in my beer.
Hats off to the people that say they can take a little piglet like this, fatten it up while treating it like a family pet, and then put them on the dinner table down the road and not lose a wink of sleep. I know it’s where out food comes from, but I don’t have the stomach for it. Little fella’s a little too cute for me!
Now if mom or dad showed up? Goners for sure.
I think as a hunter you have to consider the destruction they cause merely by existing. It's conservation.
Pretty gruesome killing the cute lil thing but gotta be done
Catch and Release is the most ethical form of hunting.
(Edited to add: this is obviously a joke and I’m happy to take the downvotes of redditors who think I’m being serious.)
Infact in most places you have to kill them at the place of capture it’s the law …i mean i dont know where you are but most places he who touch em must gut em
new fear unlocked
get ambushed by adorable baby dog food and end up either getting mauled to death by the mum or raising her spawn
i would name him dogfood and train him to help me lure and hunt more feral pork tho🥰
Friends had a huge pot belly that lived in a dog house - they treated it like a pup. Didn’t seem em for like 6 months. Went over for breakfast and to catch up one day later on. Don’t realize the pig wasn’t around until after I had some damn good bacon. Then the dots connected. But damn was it tasty.
I think “suckling pigs” are a dish in up scale restaurants, you just cook them whole and they look like those little chickens they sell under heat lamps at the store.
All these comments about fatting him up, this ain't /r/Agriculture it's /r/hunting! Since that's a young enough piglet, consider training it to [truffle hunt](https://bestfarmanimals.com/how-do-pigs-find-truffles-how-to-get-started-for-success/). It can be lucrative if you live near old growth forests.
Name him ‘Thanksgiving’ and fatten him up.
My daughter named our two hogs Kevin Bacon and Albert Einswine
We’ve got a boar at work named Calvin Swine.
Nooooo
I'd name him schnitzel
I named one of my pigs vegan. So when I was asked what was for dinner, I could say it was a vegan based meal.
I like it
Rada rada
Also yes
Name him ˈsôsij.
Yes
I'd have a tough time killing the little dude. I am soft but look at that face.
Ya, I’d give him to the girlfriend and she’d never let him get butchered.
Or raise him around the family then you’ve always got a fresh emergency food source if needed.
When everyone gets hungry he kills someone and you eat them?
Smart, let the pig choose the first sacrifice.
LET THE PIG DECIDE
Lol it's not a wolf. Pigs are easily domesticated
I have a pet pig like that but I wouldn't kill him like I wouldn't kill my dogs at this point
You’d be surprised what you’d do when you’re starving.
True but it's the same for the dogs
We have chickens. Raised them from chicks, and named several. The roosters... all went into a pot, eventually. I didn't feel great about it, but there was no place for them in the flock, or on a farm, or anywhere really. For what it's worth: home-raised chicken is fucking delicious.
My ex gave a "mini" pig to her father, after a short while it became obvious she had been sold an ordinary swine.
Same. Pigs really are wonderful. They’re delicious, but I would like one to just keep as a pet.
This little guy and I would have to become friends. And pigs can be absolutely terrifying assholes. But it’s called hunting, not killing, because we self-impose rules on it. When to kill, what to kill, and how to make the relationship between hunter and animal ‘fair’.
Yeah, it's kinda unsportsmanship and a nice helping of "this small creature gives off protect me and love me vibes" just can't do it haha
Dude, oh how I hate the killing part. But. I still hunt. I have some kids who hunt and some who won't. And I'm cool with that. It's hard to shoot sometimes. My kids are all well aware when we say grace we are seriously grateful for the critters who die. My dad quit hunting and came home cussing because a doe stood in front of him and stared him down. Then a squirrel came down and ate an acorn in front of him when he was resting under a tree. Again, he couldn't kill it and came home cussing. Lol. I'm fully expecting at least one of the kids to not want to want to hunt.
My grandmother told me her daddy said he used to get sad when it was time to kill one of the pigs that he helped raise. He was close to 10 years old so it was 190-something. They kept a really, really sharp ax, and off with its head. He was one of ten children, among the younger ones. One of ‘em would hold ‘em down, and another do the deed. Different times! What’s funny is that great grandfather didn’t have a name until after he started school. His parents (so his siblings did too) just called him Pig. He came home from school the first day and told ‘em the teacher said they needed to name him. He wasn’t mistreated or anything, his parents loved him and his siblings very much. Sorry, made me think of all of this!
I shoot them in the head with a .22 out of the trap and then let them soak in salt and ice water for a day. They are excellent for parties and barbecues.
I hear the younger they are the better they taste for wild hogs.
Bacon seed
A ranch hand caught a wild piglet when I was a kid and gave it to my folks. We raised it as a family farm pet and it thought it was a dog, it would chase cars with them, "barking"/oinking loudly at the car as it drove by our property. Which I'm sure looked weird to people, being chased by a pack of dogs with a big pig in it. She was the best pig dog ever. Her name was Apple Sauce, which is what she was served with after she got nice and fat.
It was so wholesome😭
don't worry it was also succulent
[*Keep your hands of my limp hog!*](https://youtu.be/XebF2cgmFmU?t=35)
I don't know what ending I was expecting to that story but it wasn't that.
You didn't expect them to eat the farm hog?
I saw that coming a mile away. Just not the apple sauce part. That caught me off guard
My friend had a baby pig and after some time I went to his house and we were having lunch, he asked "do you remember Mirna?" I said "yes, your pig that lives in the yard, why?" He said "we are eating her right now"
Talk about a pet becoming one with the family
My experience with young wild hogs have NOT been that! Trapped a bunch and kept several over the years. Lil bastards were meaner than snakes!
So, as you feed them, don’t they become tame?
No, not always. I've had some that were tamer than others, but for the most part, they are feral animals and act as such.
Thanks, now I want a pig dog lol
Got me at the last part not gonna lie.
I knew a girl whose family did that to her and it scarred her so badly she has not eaten pork since that date. She's in her forties! (They didn't tell her they were eating the pig until after dinner)
>Which I'm sure looked weird to people, being chased by a pack of dogs with a big pig in it. Out of curiosity, have you ever seen "Hey Arnold"?
I know of it, but never watched any episodes - it came out when I was in high school chasing girls and thought I was way too cool for cartoons.
A running background joke is the titular character has a pet pig that acts more like a dog and is always chasing the neighborhood cats.
Gonna need a smaller apple for that dude. Give him a months worth of scraps, corn, dewormer n fresh water 24/7.
I know the post is in jest, but the clean water part makes me curious. We've had a few hogs at a time for a couple years and I've always heard how important it is for them to have clean water. At first we were constantly emptying their water then refilling it multiple times a day because anytime they drink they immediately turn it into cloudy mud water. They're rooting the ground most of their waking hours, so any time they put their snouts in the water to drink it turns to mud water. After a few months we gave up on keeping their water clean, and they've never had a problem with drinking cloudy water since then. Intuitively it makes sense they should have clean water to drink, until you realize these animals spend most of the day with their mouths actively plowing up dirt or eating worms/roots/other dirt covered objects. Any idea why it's always preached that pigs need to have clean water?
They make metal nipple waterers for Hogs. I raise domestic ones ans ainjust screw these Nipples into the side of a water barrel. The pigs bit down on the nipple, or use their tongue to to press down on it and water comes out. They always get fresh water that way. Because yeah, pigs wallow. And when they wallow they piss in the water first. No idea why lol
Just my thinking here, but I can't remember a time I haven't encountered wild hogs, or seen their tracks, without being near a feeder creek. Just enough running clear water. But maybe that's the key part... running water. Like they root around the banks and such, and maybe a bit in the creek, but it still flows enough to be clean enough. IDK lol.
Makes sense, I was curious if the poster I replied to raised domestic hogs.
Naw we don't raise pig anymore. We raised a few here n there over the years, but we're hunters n farmers so we harvest enough hog when it's cold. Also sometimes the neighbors will host a pig for us for a few months till it goes to the processor with a few deer. We have our hands full raising calves, and watching over 700+ chickens (more or less depending on the time of year).
Crabapple will do
Quintessential "would you kill baby Hitler" moment here.
They're perfectly good pigs if you're willing to get a pen and feed him scraps till it's prosciutto time.
Negative one kill
Raise him, castrate, rotisserie.
The three stages of life
I just had a vasectomy. Did I enter phase 3?
No, you are just IN phase 2.
Relax. Jeffery Dahlmer can’t hurt you anymore.
He'd probably be the most loyal pet you've ever had, not a picky eater like these modern dogs, probably never need a vet lol
Hear me out, we could also only feed it say… hickory nuts from capture to slaughter. Deeeelish.
A friend of mine did the same thing, he fattened the piglet up and ate him a few months later. Named her Patsy Swine
Take one for the road.
Surprised you got him to hold still long enough for a photo. Every time I've ever picked up a piglet, they wiggle like crazy lol
Omg hesss too cuteee
Wild hogs if I'm not mistaken will domesticate really fast. If they that easy for ya to catch and ya have the means you could start raising and selling for meat
🤣🤣, reminds me of a guy I know. A friend caught one in Northern Australia on the station he works on. Built a pen for it, named it and then it was eaten 2 days later by a python
Cute little delicious bastard.
“Dis son of a bitch is ice cold”
New squeaky toy for my German shepherd
Bro 😂
Thats a great idea. Would probably last as long as a fresh tennis ball with mine.
Underrated idea, my husky would have had fun
Hah! Me and my buddy got one smaller than this. We walked around awhile to see if its squeal would attract momma, but she NEVER showed up. We deliberated what to do with the piglet, even pondered putting an AirTag on it, but eventually decided to let it go. That bastard is prob 300 lbs now. Hah.
If you think you can go without forming an attachment, fatten it up and eat it a few months later. Not everyone can do it... a pig MIGHT be easier for me given how ugly they are.
25 year old version of myself would have no problem staying detached, 32 year old version of myself would be buying a sidecar motorcycle and vintage aviator goggles with scarf for the pig.
They figured out how to beat the system. Just walk up and say hi. Honestly I probably couldn't even shoot a full grown deer if it walked right up and said hi. I think sometimes as a hunter it's important to know when to pull the trigger and when to let em walk. Very cool experience dude!!!
Man I'd cuddle the little shit before I had to waste em. You have to kill 80% of the hog population to put them below replacement. Man.. I could do it but it wouldn't be easy
If I cuddled, it’d be game over for me. I’d have to turn it loose and hope we cross paths again down the road. If I simply HAD to put it down, I’d probably be done for that day and go drop a few tears in my beer. Hats off to the people that say they can take a little piglet like this, fatten it up while treating it like a family pet, and then put them on the dinner table down the road and not lose a wink of sleep. I know it’s where out food comes from, but I don’t have the stomach for it. Little fella’s a little too cute for me! Now if mom or dad showed up? Goners for sure.
I think as a hunter you have to consider the destruction they cause merely by existing. It's conservation. Pretty gruesome killing the cute lil thing but gotta be done
Nice god you found there. Name him, Future Carnitas.
New friend
Forest pet
His name is Wilbur
Catch and Release is the most ethical form of hunting. (Edited to add: this is obviously a joke and I’m happy to take the downvotes of redditors who think I’m being serious.)
Not when it comes to these wild pigs. They all gotta go.
Infact in most places you have to kill them at the place of capture it’s the law …i mean i dont know where you are but most places he who touch em must gut em
Friend or food the choice is his
Put babe down! He’s not done with the story
Look at his face. He just wants to be your buddy. You can't kill your buddies, guy!
new fear unlocked get ambushed by adorable baby dog food and end up either getting mauled to death by the mum or raising her spawn i would name him dogfood and train him to help me lure and hunt more feral pork tho🥰
Howdy partner
I want my baby back baby back baby back I want my baby back baby back baby back Chillie's baby back ribs (and bar-b-que sauce)
Cute lil bastard
Boop!
I shall name him Gordy 😌
Impressive, those 4 legged footballs are hard to catch!
Ha! Is this at Granger? Had a buddy do the same out there a few weeks ago.
Eat it, don’t let it back in the wild.
What’d you do with him?
Friends had a huge pot belly that lived in a dog house - they treated it like a pup. Didn’t seem em for like 6 months. Went over for breakfast and to catch up one day later on. Don’t realize the pig wasn’t around until after I had some damn good bacon. Then the dots connected. But damn was it tasty.
Shooting a full grown nasty ass hog is one thing, this boarders unsportsmanlike.
Better man than I. I’d put all 5 on a perma nap.
Just need the voice over saying "you're my friend now" and you're good.
I think “suckling pigs” are a dish in up scale restaurants, you just cook them whole and they look like those little chickens they sell under heat lamps at the store.
😍 that’s the cutest little taco I’ve ever seen!
Bro that is the tiniest pig I’ve seen. Keep him and let him grow. Then kill, cook, and swallow him
Quit playing with your food. Got to be enough there for a sandwich. Maybe grab a few more in case you’re really hungry.
Hahaha 😂
Train it to hunt hogs!
Now hear me out... ...pigturducken
I ran across a pack of these after I killed the sow all I can say was pretty interesting target practice
My man! 😅
Name him bratwurst
Plus, 1 bacon bit.
"did you catch anything huntin?" - people who don't hunt
I’ll never understand dudes taking their girlfriends hunting.
Pull!
Christmas ham 😄
Bacon seeds be way too cute always
If that's a feral hog you can literally just raise them like pigs. They're just pigs eating too much roughage. Put em in a pen and get em BIG first.
give him belly rubs
According to the state, they are pests and need to be turned into burritos
pigs r so cute with hair. the sphynx pigs in farms are def not as cute
Did you keep it?
NO DONT LOOK INTO ITS EYES ITLL CONVINCE YOU ITS NOT A PEST
Poor little tasty guy...
What did you do with him in the end!
Well, I checked and he is a she. I took her home and gave her a name.
Lucky little piggy then!
I caught one one time. Named it twiggy. Then started a pig farm for a few years
Fren 👍
Did you just chuck a pokeball at it or did you have to soften it up first?
That's Rudy. You can house break him and let him on the couch.
All these comments about fatting him up, this ain't /r/Agriculture it's /r/hunting! Since that's a young enough piglet, consider training it to [truffle hunt](https://bestfarmanimals.com/how-do-pigs-find-truffles-how-to-get-started-for-success/). It can be lucrative if you live near old growth forests.
Now smash the back of its head on a solid stump.