 Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
#131679 - 03/04/2007 06:17 AM |
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Hi,
I've been offered some free wild pig for dog food (they're a non-native nuisance here). Anyone have any experience with or concerns about feeding it? Is freezing for 20 days sufficient to kill parasites and other beasties? Any parts of the pig I should not feed?
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Re: Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
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It's not something I've looked into specifically, since piggies are not really at my disposal, however, in my general memory bank I seem to recall coming to the conclusion that I would not be inclined to feed my dog other wild carnivores or practical omnivores (bears, pigs etc).
The taxanomically closer you start getting, the more familiar the terrain for parasites and disease. In it's worst manifestation, think Mad Cow, Scrapie, or read about the historically recent cannibals of New Guinea and their issues with eating eachother. Not good.
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Re: Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
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#131697 - 03/04/2007 10:57 AM |
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I agree with Steven about feeding omnivores/carnivores to dogs.
However, considering that a whole pig could mean a lot of free food for your dog, maybe you could invest a bit and have the meat inspected for parasites?
The animal should be gutted immediately at death to cool down the carcass and prevent massive proliferation of all the bacteria from its gut. If you can keep the muscle mass from being contaminated by the gut contents, you can the meat quickly frozen and inspected for parasites by a qualified professional. Then determine from the results whether you're comfortable feeding it raw.
(Even if the muscle meat checks out, I'd still forego feeding the internal organs like the liver and certainly the digestive tract).
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Re: Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
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#131707 - 03/04/2007 11:45 AM |
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you can't prevent trichinosis by freezing. i would take a pass on this meat.
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Re: Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
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I fed some wild boar once w/no issues at all, but I was desperately out of food, it was cleaned, prepared, and intended for human consumption, and frozen for a looooong time. But I wouldn't go out of my way to feed piggie-type food often.
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Re: Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
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#131718 - 03/04/2007 02:46 PM |
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Jenni, I was told that wild pig always should be inspected...javelina's and wild russian boar are all over west Texas and I have friends who would regularly hunt them and take them to a local meat processing plant. I don't think they ever found any contaminated meat from them, but pigs are the worst of the worst as you probably know, about eating ANYTHING they can swallow..they're worse than vultures.
I'll feed pig, but it's got to be from the store, not wild.
btw, I saw that there was a pit bull attack in your town...what is your town or county doing about BSL's? just curious...
 Brenna
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Re: Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
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#131720 - 03/04/2007 03:02 PM |
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Here's an interesting question. If humans can eat wild pig (assuming it's handled correctly and then frozen for the appropriate amount of time) then why can't dogs? I don't feed raw, but I do eat wild pig quite frequently that was killed either by myself or my husband. So I guess this is more of a hypothetical question if you will.
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Mike, I don't know what story you mean, but we have no BSL here. I got my Pit from the Naperville Humane Society, so I'd think if they were legislated, they wouldn't be adopting them out. Send me the link; I'm curious!
Back to wild pigs; I'd agree that "what's the difference if people eat it or dogs?" except for the cooking factor. I'd do more extensive research to see how long freezing is required to eliminate the most likely suspects from the meat. I was sold a chest freezer from an avid hunter and he dropped it off full. I don't even know what some of it is, but it's all food he'd intended to eat himself, and didn't get around to it, so I haven't been terribly concerned feeding it to the dogs.
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Re: Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
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I got my Pit from the Naperville Humane Society, so I'd think if they were legislated, they wouldn't be adopting them out.
Not necessarily true, actually.
Ontario has a province-wide ban on pit bulls implemented a while back (forgot when exactly) but the ban was only on either breeding to produce more pitbulls or on importing new pits into the province.
People who already owned pits could keep their pets, and shelters were still allowed to adopt out all their pits.
Unfortunately, many shelters were overloaded with pits once the ban appeared - worthless owners everywhere dumped their dogs just because they were too lazy to implement the new restrictions 
Anyway, for those pits already in the BSL areas, their owners are required to have them muzzled at all times in public and on leash. The shelters were still adopting out the "leftover" pits for a long time after the ban was in place (I saw a large number of pit bull profiles on the Toronto Humane Society website... a lot of them seemed like really nice dogs).
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Re: Any opinions on feeding wild pig?
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Here's an interesting question. If humans can eat wild pig (assuming it's handled correctly and then frozen for the appropriate amount of time) then why can't dogs? I don't feed raw, but I do eat wild pig quite frequently that was killed either by myself or my husband. So I guess this is more of a hypothetical question if you will.
JenniferH
If you have ever had your grandma or great grandma cook pork for you, you will notice she cooks it to death and that's because trichinosis was more common back then when there weren't a lot of freezers around and cooking killed the parasite. You still occasionally hear of someone getting infected with it and they usually got it from wild pork or pork from a backyard farmer so it wasn't inspected, frozen and/or didn't cook it well done before eating it. Also, most but not all of the different species of trichinella are killed by freezing.
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