Finally figured out why the boar was free. My uncles brother, a pig vet, came around and looked at the pig. Turns out its riddled with skin cancer. I'll be digging a pit in the woods Thursday instead of butchering I guess.
Thanks for all the sausage ideas folks. I'll save em for deer season.
Let this be a lesson on free livestock.
Pic shows the skin cancer.
by 82LeadMan
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Fuck cancer
Excuse my ignorance but skin is only “skin deep” . Isn’t the muscle still edible?
Cancer is not generally a communicable disease. I’d do some research before you just bury him.
Cancer is merely an uncontrolled growth of cells. Once cooked, it’s no different than any of the other cells of whatever organ (guessing skin) had the cancer. It isn’t contagious unless you’re trying for an implant of some type. And even then, you’re not a pig so you’re not getting pig cancer. Either way, cancer in an animal isn’t dangerous to humans – either via contact or as food.
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Try scrubbing him with lice shampoo once and then in ten days, looks like mange
In my experience – Free livestock is always a bad deal
I’ve only ever accepted free chickens once and it was from a family friend and I knew the chickens health and wellbeing prior to it.
Turns out animals need shade too. I pass so many homesteads with no shade for animals at all
That’s just dandruff, dude