Anyone use beef fat mixed with wild hog for sausage?

[rexlan]

I have a couple of hogs in the freezer (wild) that were given to me.  The fat is questionable and I've never used the fat from game animals.  I don't care to eat it.   I also have 40# of beef fat and very little of the pork fat.

Anyone ever use the beef fat instead of the pork fat in the sausage with pork?  Pork fat is hard to impossible to get around here but the beef is pretty easy.

 

[daveomak]

rexlan, morning....  Not too many folks have had the opportunity to eat wild hog, including me....  I will help the best I can with your question... 

Wild animals have little, if any intramuscular fat...  Wild hog will need fat so it isn't crumbly dry... I would mix the beef fat you have with the hog.... Probably around 30% or so even up to 50%....   Try mixing different ratios and find a mix you like and report back so others can learn from your experiment....  You could also try mixing domestic pig with it in different ratios to mellow the flavor of the wild....  Sounds like a fun and delicious experiment to me.... 

About the hog.... It is recommended to freeze it below 0 deg for at least 30 days to kill any parasites that may be in the meat....  I understand wild hog is delicious....  I have often wanted to go on a wild hog hunt just to taste it....  

Good luck with the sausage and eating...   Dave

 

[BGKYSmoker]

Rex

Yes it cuts in great. Try some brisket trim or beef fat trim from steaks.

(i save brisket trim)

I have some GA wild hog meat coming to me soon.

 

[so ms smoker]

  I used beef fat with deer meat to make sausage. It was great.  Went to the local market for pork fat (during deer season) and was told they can't get enough of it. They GAVE me 10 pounds of beef fat at no charge!

  Mike

 

[diesel]

I would also like to know the outcome.  I hear wild hog is good also.  From what I hear the populations are grow  very fast and hunting them is getting more popular.  I live in Virginia and have read they are finding them in the southern parts now. 

good luck.  QView?

Aaron.

 

[diggingdogfarm]

We used to mix in some hard brisket fat. MMMmmmmm!



~Martin

 

[rexlan]

I'm in Florida now and down here a few locals are catching them, castrate them and turn them lose. 

The next season they put out feeders and then shoot them .... man, pretty rough hunting.
 

Anyway ... good to know I can sub the beef fat for the pork fat.  Looks like I have a lifetime supply of pork now  

 

[mike johnson]

I shot me a wild hog afew years ago. it was a 220lb. boar. Let me tell you boar meat is VERY GAMEY. The fat from a boar is even worse. Trim every bit of fat you can see if any and throw it away.Dont get me wrong i loved eating my wild boar chops but I wished I had shot a sow instead.

 

[rexlan]

Yea ... that's what I heard too.  I think that's why they cut the equipment off and let them mellow a year, feed them up a little ... LOL 

Most shoot only the sows or the small piglets.
 

 

[werdwolf]

OK, so I have no experience with this, just wondering about maybe making brats with this combo?  And I suspect that I would get rid of any significant parts of the hog fat

 

[rexlan]

The meat is excellent ... just lean.  Fat actually looks good and it's nice and white ... BUT .... I don't care to use it.