Tuesday 28 February 2012

Wild boar

If you walk in the forest, you'll come across the traces and evidence of wild boar in the woods: their hoof marks in the mud or the snow, their droppings on the paths, or boar-sized tunnels through the undergrowth.  If you drive through the forest at night, there are so many of them that you'll probably catch sight of them in the headlights - they seem to be almost equally surprised to see you as you are to see them!
The boar scavenge and collect most of the forest-floor edible items, edible mushrooms, berries & edible roots. they get into the fields and ruin the crops by eating them but also by trampling over the whole field and destroying what they don't eat.
Among the village hunters there are several groups that hunt the boar on a fairly serious level, successfully killing a few each year, and since moving into the village we've been acquiring freshly killed animals on an occasional basis (generally at dead of night).  This gets processed into joints of meat, mince & sausages for us, as well as meals for the dogs.  Boar is lean, low-fat, tasty meat.
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