I'm going on a guided hog hunt next weekend for a bachelor party. If all goes well I suspect we will end up with more meat then we can handle. Does anyone know somewhere in DFW to donate hogs? We'll have them field dressed at a minimum.

You won't be able to donate. Too much liability for organizations to accept the meat. Whatever you don't take home, feed to the birds

Maybe contact the local game warden. They may know someone locally who may need it.

Btw. my FIL, BIL, and I, I'm sure we can take your excess of your hands!

If I didn't have a baby due any day I would offer to take them.

Really? The deputy sheriff comes out when we trap 'Em and don't need meat. He shoots them, loads them, and takes 'Em to needy families. Granted we live in a small town

Coyote and bizzard dinner .....

Make sausage. Then donate it to someone you know directly or someone through your church.

They won't accept it for the same reason they won't accept expired food goods that are still edible, optics and liability. It's why grocery stores in the US trash expired goods rather than donate them.

Donating food to organizations is a pretty inefficient form of charity anyway, mostly it's people feeling bad about throwing away food they bought but never ate. Food expires, storing food is expensive, sorting good food from bad food is time consuming.

AceAggie05 said:

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Really? The deputy sheriff comes out when we trap 'Em and don't need meat. He shoots them, loads them, and takes 'Em to needy families. Granted we live in a small town

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I grew up in small town and there it wouldn't be a problem like you said. I don't have the connections here in the big city that I had back home.

AceAggie05 said:

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Really? The deputy sheriff comes out when we trap 'Em and don't need meat. He shoots them, loads them, and takes 'Em to needy families. Granted we live in a small town

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The difference is that the sheriff is just taking it to people he knows that need it. Nothing wrong w/ a person-to-person "share/gift" of meat.

The issue arises when money or a "donation" to an organization or business occurs. You can't legally sell or "officially" donate meat that hasn't been prepared at a licensed processing facility (or under the supervision of a gov't inspector).

Years ago when I had a lease in Childress we got inundated with hogs. We contacted a group in DFW area, I think it was Farmers Feeding the Hungry or something like that. We offered to bring field dressed & skinned hogs to them. They said in order for them to accept hogs they had to be:

A. Inspected live before we killed them

Or

B. We kill them and pay to have them processed and then donate the final product to their organization

There's so many risks in feral hog meat/meat handling, hell, I won't even handle/process them or eat them any more.

Strongweasel97 said:

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There's so many risks in feral hog meat/meat handling, hell, I won't even handle/process them or eat them any more.

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Can you elaborate? We don't have hogs where I live.

Mtn_Guide said:

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Strongweasel97 said:

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There's so many risks in feral hog meat/meat handling, hell, I won't even handle/process them or eat them any more.

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Can you elaborate? We don't have hogs where I live.

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Meh.

We shoot them, field dress them, drive them to the processor, then eat them.

I suppose it's divine intervention that me and my family are still above ground.

Mtn_Guide said:

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Strongweasel97 said:

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There's so many risks in feral hog meat/meat handling, hell, I won't even handle/process them or eat them any more.

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Can you elaborate? We don't have hogs where I live.

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A lot of it has to do with food handling in particular (with any animal), but feral hogs are picking up a whole lot of bad stuff these days:

Bobcat Tapeworm is now showing up in feral hogs
Swine Brucellosis
TB
Tularemia
Bubonic Plague
Anthrax
Foot and Mouth Disease
Pseudorabies
Hog Cholera

Those are just a few...and most can be eradicated with proper handling and cooking, but cross-contamination of any of that stuff from field to table would be....really bad.

With so many hogs these days, all going after the same food stuff, things get pretty rough opening skin wounds, contaminating each other, etc... it's just not worth the risk to me.

Strongweasel97 said:

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There's so many risks in feral hog meat/meat handling, hell, I won't even handle/process them or eat them any more.

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You're more likely to die in an ATV wreck or trip and fall and break your neck on the way to your stand than you are to come across a hog with "all them diseases".

All it takes is one...and that bobcat tapeworm that keeps showing up in East Texas is nothing to mess around with.

FSGuide said:

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Strongweasel97 said:

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There's so many risks in feral hog meat/meat handling, hell, I won't even handle/process them or eat them any more.

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You're more likely to die in an ATV wreck or trip and fall and break your neck on the way to your stand than you are to come across a hog with "all them diseases".

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FIFY

You're more likely to die from Hillary than you are to come across a hog with "all them diseases".