Thread: Getting back to living off the land.....

@Coote, yes the pigs will spend time in bracken for sure, it’s a dominant plant species in areas of abandoned farmland adjacent to the native blocks, and I frequently see pigs in there. But do they eat bracken? Haven’t a clue. I guess that might affect their flavour.

Of concern to me is the amount of dead animal they get to eat - pig hunters’ livestock dumps which get a steady resupply of sheep, cattle and horses, all the goats we flatten from long range, the deer we cull to waste as well. It’s a veritable smorgasbord of dead ungulates, and they sure don’t last long, a day or two tops for a yearling Angus steer when the pigs are around, for example... It is quite something to watch them demolish a red deer in 6-7 hours. And they like it rotten as...

Kinda puts me off wild pork to be honest.

Whereas the pigs I used to shoot off North Waikato farmland came straight out of the native and onto pasture, they were excellent eating.