I shot a couple of pigs one evening a week or so ago at the deer lease. Both with my Heym 26B 0/U in 30/30.
Both boars one about 130lbs the other about 225 to 235lbs. I did not weigh them, but I have weighed a lot of pigs in the past.

When I was gutting them back in camp one of my buddies said, lets save the "Oysters".
So I did.
The next night, we had froze them a little to make them easier to slice, we covered them with corn meal and fried them up.

A couple of guys and one of their young sons were kinda skeptical, but they were great eating.

I had never considered that, but will definitely now keep it in mind. I have shot several boars, just never thought to keep the "jewels".

I just can't wrap my head around that.........

I think I'll stick to oysters from the sea rather than oysters I can see when the piggies are running away...

Calf nuts and deer nuts are one thing, not real sure about pig nuts. Maybe be great, had not really thought about trying them.

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Originally posted by Crazyhorseconsulting:
Calf nuts and deer nuts are one thing, not real sure about pig nuts. Maybe be great, had not really thought about trying them.

They are at least as good as the ones you mentioned.
They do not have any kind of bad/wild/strange taste to them.

I have eaten cape buffalo balls as well. Also very good.

Wouldn't even try it.


In the Position that the sack is on a hog, think of all the crap that has ran down the back of em


Jokes aside, I wouldn't try them.

Actually they are held "high and tight", covered by a tough skin, and a tough membrane.

Once removed they are clean as any other part of the animal under the skin.

Trust me if you have ever eaten store bought hot dogs or bologna, you have eaten much worse...

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
Trust me if you have ever eaten store bought hot dogs or bologna, you have eaten much worse...

Yes, but I don't know about it and ignorance is bliss......

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Originally posted by Whitworth:

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Originally posted by N E 450 No2:
Trust me if you have ever eaten store bought hot dogs or bologna, you have eaten much worse...

Yes, but I don't know about it and ignorance is bliss......

Aint that the truth!

Hog nuts are great eating. The only thing on a big old boar is to soak them in something like buttermilk, over night before you fry them. Over the years, we've eaten a mountain of pig oysters, after a castrating run[domestic]. I've had the wild ones a few times, and they are right tasty!


Mad Dog

In July when I went to that fenced in hog killing place. They didn't know what I was talking about & didn't reply when I told 'em to: "save the oysters".
Next day I shot a bigger one & the owner asked what I was talking about: oysters? never heard of it!"
Three days later when we'd finished fishing & was headed to JAX, stopped to pick up the meat they'd saved me: Ten more pair!

Sure have been great eating so far. Battered & hot oil along with some fresh shrimp I bought from a roadside stand. Girl friend don't know what they are other than 'damned good eating". I've left it alone for her sake so far.

As a kid of a cattleman that worked lots of branding & cutting every summer. I learned real young about fixing oysters, those days even fried in a skillet on the branding fires a few times.

while in the Army in Germany some of us "cowboys" went to the local butcher & ordered 20# a few times. Lots of guys sniveled out of trying but, everyone of those that gave it a try really liked 'em.
George

Mad Dog and George, exactly...

For seveal years a bunch of us hunted antelope in Wyoming with a rancher that raised sheep.

The first year up there his wife fixed us some "sheep fries", fried, and then later in the hunt, "sheep fries" and eggs.
Well they were great. So every year after that they would save us a bunch of them, and we would "eat them up"...

You "city boys" do not know what you are missing.

Bollocks.

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Originally posted by Ghubert:
Bollocks.

Literally......

Well, I've had both moutain oysters and goat nuts. Will have to do some pig "jewels".

Keith

Wouldn't that Cape Buff be quite irate over you eating his round things? Cutting them could be uhhhh a delicate operation.

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Originally posted by packrattusnongratus:
Wouldn't that Cape Buff be quite irate over you eating his round things? Cutting them could be uhhhh a delicate operation.

No doubt!

NE 450:
Glad you mentioned Sheep, here's a really funny story my old "late" rancher friend told me about.

herders ran thousands of sheep in the high country above his ranch. Told about when he & 2 friends went up to help 'em out.
The "old sheep herders bit 'em off, so we ornery young guys sorting the rams from ewe's watching the goings on got the idea to send the "Biters" the nastiest crappy assed rams and the cleanest one's went to the guys that used a knife. "THEY didn't seem to notice the difference or what we were doing, they just kept right on biting the nuts off"
"we had a great feast of oysters every meal we worked the herds"

IF that ain't funny, I've never heard one that was!!
George

George, that is funny.

I have never "bit" any sheep fries off the animal, but I have "bit" a bunch after they were fried, or cooked with scrambled eggs.

I don't eat balls,or snakes!

you're missing out on the best eats there is then.
Snakes are the best chicken ever grown n eaten imo.
George

eat em all the time from the smaller pigs. Moose too.

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Originally posted by just-a-hunter:
I will not put anything in my mouth that has anything to do with semen. Especially the manufacturing plant and storage facility.....

YUCK!!!!

Todd

LoL !!

I prefer my oyster to come enclosed in a calcuim enriched shell, to keep out the pathagens. I'll leave the others to others.

you boys been watchin them thar porno shows??

One summer I saw mountain oysters on a menu in West Yellowstone, Montana. When I placed my order for some, I was informed that it was not oyster season!

willieb

They usually "harvest" the mountain oysters about the same time every year. They had probably run out.

I grew up eating calf fries and still do When given the chance(haven't tried a pig's though.)

You have to cut them out of the membrane or they are as tough as rubber. Prepare them correctly, and thry are great. Definitely my favorite part of a buffalo.

My uncle Guy Anderson used to tell me the story of when he was a Veterinarian student at Texas A & M they castrated a bunch of hogs. They brought the pails full of oysters back to campus. He said there was almost a fist fight among the workers painting one of the building on campus for the pails!
Horse oysters a good too!

When I was in Ag class--my ag teacher and I were cutting hogs--he pitched the nut back in the pen and the pig "ate his own oyster" guess they like them too.

Two of the girls in our class puked over the incident.

Nerver had pig nuts--but love calf, and sheep, so I'm sure I'd like hog nuts.

Ed

Having seen the video of Rebbeca Loos "BBC Farm Episode", there is no way I would eat pig nuts.

They're clean as or even more so than any other part of an animals body. There's not less than three and maybe four complete wrappings of skin/membrane around each one.

Hell, it's only meat once you get the casings off. all the glands are on the outside and disposed of just getting to the meat part. It's tender and filets right off the last layer of skin real slick and clean. Then you just slice 'em about 1/4-3/8" thick. I generally cut 'em in half lengthwise, then each half in half again until they're all about the same thickness slices'.

Reading up on it, eating them will increase your own testerone, from reading some of these responses it sounds like a good many of you could use as much increase as you could get!!
George

im shure the meat just falls off the bone.

Glad that those parts were not wasted.

I have had the oysters of every bull I have ever shot. Elk are great as are sheep. Sable was good as were the Eland.

I even had them from a bull elephant I shot in Zimbabwe. I had to send the skinners into the carcass as they are undescended in the Elephant.
Those were a little more fibrous but tasty. Good work Tony!

Hey Doc:
How big were those?
Should have made a bunch of big steaks I'll bet.

They were larger than grapefruits. I had to show the cook how to prepare them and the camp help thought I was daffy.

I brought my 16 year old son along who ate them with relish. "This is really good Dad, what is it?" "This is essence of elephant!" There was a young PH there who was in training. He whispered that he was eating elephant nuts and Rob lost his appetite.

They had a DJ on WJR in Detroit who held a contest over the air; "What is the worst thing y ou have ever done once?" It was mocking Clinton's claim about smoking dope.

Rob had my car which had a phone and he called in and said the worst thing he ever did once was to eat "elephant nuts on Africa" He won the contest hands down.

I think of that story every time I see mention of "oysters"

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Originally posted by Dr L. S. Wirthlin:
They were larger than grapefruits. I had to show the cook how to prepare them and the camp help thought I was daffy.

I brought my 16 year old son along who ate them with relish. "This is really good Dad, what is it?" "This is essence of elephant!" There was a young PH there who was in training. He whispered that he was eating elephant nuts and Rob lost his appetite.

They had a DJ on WJR in Detroit who held a contest over the air; "What is the worst thing y ou have ever done once?" It was mocking Clinton's claim about smoking dope.

Rob had my car which had a phone and he called in and said the worst thing he ever did once was to eat "elephant nuts on Africa" He won the contest hands down.

I think of that story every time I see mention of "oysters"

Great story!

My PH last year in Mozambique looked at me a bit strange while they were working on my buffalo at the skinning shed. I had asked him as to the possiblilty of having the oysters for appetizers. We did and they were delicious. He even tried them. One of the camp staff thought I was telling him to eat one and he put it in his mouth and acted like he was chewing but when asked if he liked it, he said "No sir" and walked away. After he got about 30 yards away, you could hear him spit it out. That was also the night that Gary Duckworth had them fix South African Calamari. He had the chef take about 2 feet of buffalo intestine, boil it 3 different times in clean water and then dipped it in a corn meal mix and fried it in butter with salt and pepper. Damn that was good too!

Since I mentioned the old sheep herders biting them off above. Last week on the local newscast they did a short story about the "local boys biting them off, and tests showed from that batch there's some kind of chemicals that will make 'em mighty sick and they shouldn't be biting them off, if they do, they need to go visit the doc, or if they get sick to get to the ER asap.
WOW!!

George