Baymule’s Farm

[baymule]

Yesterday I processed the sow. I got out one ham from the boar and weighed it. It was 22 pounds. I cut it in half and cut a ham steak. It is dark red, beautiful meat. Today I process the boar.

 

[baymule]

I worked on that boar for 2 days. I got down to about 12 pounds of meat that needed to be ground up and just bagged it and put it in the refrigerator. I was exhausted. I ground it later. All told, that 200 pound feral boar yielded 70 pounds of boneless meat.

The hams weighed 20 pounds each. I cut them in half.

Beautiful red meat!

Fresh ham steak. I continued to cut around the bone and made vacuum sealed packages of one pound each.

Shoulder from the sow. Look closely and you can see the bullet hole.

Turned over and it is evident. I cut all of the damaged meat away. It went into the scraps unfit for human or dog consumption, to be thrown out for buzzards and other wild animals.

Backstrap. If bone were attached it would be the pork chops. I take a sharp knife and carefully cut the tough silver skin off.

Silverskin off, very little meat wasted.

I will share meat with my son, my daughter and her family and a dear friend and her family.

 

[seedcorn]

Impressive! Great food for your family & 2 less pests to deal with. Win Win

 

[Dahlia]

I worked on that boar for 2 days. I got down to about 12 pounds of meat that needed to be ground up and just bagged it and put it in the refrigerator. I was exhausted. I ground it later. All told, that 200 pound feral boar yielded 70 pounds of boneless meat.

The hams weighed 20 pounds each. I cut them in half.

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Beautiful red meat!

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Fresh ham steak. I continued to cut around the bone and made vacuum sealed packages of one pound each.

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Shoulder from the sow. Look closely and you can see the bullet hole. View attachment 69472

Turned over and it is evident. I cut all of the damaged meat away. It went into the scraps unfit for human or dog consumption, to be thrown out for buzzards and other wild animals.

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Backstrap. If bone were attached it would be the pork chops. I take a sharp knife and carefully cut the tough silver skin off.

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Silverskin off, very little meat wasted.

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I will share meat with my son, my daughter and her family and a dear friend and her family.

That's cool you hunted your own meat! Not everyone knows how to do that!
When you cook the hams, do you have to do anything special to them to make them taste like ham from the store?

 

[baymule]

That's cool you hunted your own meat! Not everyone knows how to do that!
When you cook the hams, do you have to do anything special to them to make them taste like ham from the store?

Neighbor has a hog trap, he shot them. But I’ve hunted in the past and if he takes his trap down, I can put one up on my place. Not a problem.

The hams are fresh meat, they are not cured. So the steaks I cut off the hams are more like round steak from a beef steer. The round bone gives name of round steak to the cut. So they will taste nothing like the ham from the store. I’m going to make chicken fried round steak either tonight or tomorrow night. I’ll take pictures and let you know how it tastes.

 

[seedcorn]

Neighbor has a hog trap, he shot them. But I’ve hunted in the past and if he takes his trap down, I can put one up on my place. Not a problem.

The hams are fresh meat, they are not cured. So the steaks I cut off the hams are more like round steak from a beef steer. The round bone gives name of round steak to the cut. So they will taste nothing like the ham from the store. I’m going to make chicken fried round steak either tonight or tomorrow night. I’ll take pictures and let you know how it tastes.

You are evil! Sharing pix of chicken fried steaks……. Love that meal!

 

[ducks4you]

SO COOL that you processed ALL OF THAT MEAT!!!
What a Great way to harvest--no livestock caretaking and ridding Texas of vermin!!!!!

 

[flowerbug]

... The round bone gives name of round steak to the cut. So they will taste nothing like the ham from the store. I’m going to make chicken fried round steak either tonight or tomorrow night. I’ll take pictures and let you know how it tastes.

shouldn't it taste like porky pig?

 

[baymule]

shouldn't it taste like porky pig?

It sure won’t taste like store bought pork. Was busy yesterday. Didn’t cook supper, but I will tonight. Will report back here!

 

[baymule]

Chicken fried steak—from the feral boar—it was delicious. Home made cream corn, corn bought from a family roadside stand next to cornfield, and potatoes. Glass of lemonade to go with it. @seedcorn the steak was not gamey at all, it could be passed off as beef.