Here's Porkchop & PetuniaSo, here are a couple of photos of javelinas. For those of you unfamiliar with the little critters, they may look like hairy pigs to you, but they are not. They are peccaries.
Pecarries are more related to giant rats than pigs genetically. But they snort, they root in the ground for food, and they have pig noses, so we just call them javelinas or pigs!
Coming home from town today Porkchop and Petunia (so named by Dan, one of the guys here at Prescott Pines, who feeds these little critters, along with skunks, raccoons, birds, and whomever else in Wild Kingdom decides to come to his place and partake in the buffet. We've told him this isn't very safe...i.e. bites, rabies, being gored, etc....but he loves his little critters and he's an old guy who isnt' going to change) were busy having a little lunch in the dry creek bed, so since it was broad daylight about 3pm, I stopped and took a few shots of them. They looked at me, but didn't make much of an objection of my immortalizing them into the digital world. Believe me, I stayed pretty close to the open truck door, because if they get testy and come after you, you DO NOT want to be gored with their little tusks (can't see them in the photos, but they're there). They are filthy and harbor all kinds of bacteria that can land you in the hospital, rot away your flesh, and in the least give you a nasty infected gash in whatever part of your anatomy they try to rip up. So I'm respectful of their space.
You can eat them, but when you kill and clean them you have to know what you're doing. They have noxious scent glands, and if you don't cut them out immediately, they will permiate the meat, and you do not want to eat it at that point. I have had bbq javelina and javelina sausage, and both were delicious.
So boys and girls, that was your lecture of the purposefulness of peccaries. Have a good one!
Pecarries are more related to giant rats than pigs genetically. But they snort, they root in the ground for food, and they have pig noses, so we just call them javelinas or pigs!
Coming home from town today Porkchop and Petunia (so named by Dan, one of the guys here at Prescott Pines, who feeds these little critters, along with skunks, raccoons, birds, and whomever else in Wild Kingdom decides to come to his place and partake in the buffet. We've told him this isn't very safe...i.e. bites, rabies, being gored, etc....but he loves his little critters and he's an old guy who isnt' going to change) were busy having a little lunch in the dry creek bed, so since it was broad daylight about 3pm, I stopped and took a few shots of them. They looked at me, but didn't make much of an objection of my immortalizing them into the digital world. Believe me, I stayed pretty close to the open truck door, because if they get testy and come after you, you DO NOT want to be gored with their little tusks (can't see them in the photos, but they're there). They are filthy and harbor all kinds of bacteria that can land you in the hospital, rot away your flesh, and in the least give you a nasty infected gash in whatever part of your anatomy they try to rip up. So I'm respectful of their space.
You can eat them, but when you kill and clean them you have to know what you're doing. They have noxious scent glands, and if you don't cut them out immediately, they will permiate the meat, and you do not want to eat it at that point. I have had bbq javelina and javelina sausage, and both were delicious.
So boys and girls, that was your lecture of the purposefulness of peccaries. Have a good one!
