MEAT EATERS

When i was 7 or 8 we used to go down to the ranch we had down in Refugio area, the Mexican "Patron" system was still in effect on our ranch, so the mexicans lived on the ranch and owned no trucks and rarely came to town. The ranch bought and paid for everything they needed and paid about $5 a day in the early sixties. When a cow or calf died from anything or even a chicken or deer the Mexican hands would set up a big boiling pot and add corn shorts and meal to make hog food, these were feral hogs that roamed the Aransas and Medio. The mexicans used to cut their leg tendon or tie a log to them so they not try to break out of a crummy limb pen they fed them dead meat slop out of. I remember one time something killed about 20 chickens and they just tossed them in a pile, one of those hogs came up and started eating them with feathers and all. A while later this hog got loose and was coming back at night breaking into the henhouse at daylight trying to catch a live chicken to eat. He caught 2 or 3 in a row until they shot him in the pen killing a hen on the ground, inside was the remains of the other hens he had gobbled up alive. The Mexicans all got into a argument that feeding them meat made them crave it and start killing the hens. anyway, nobody fed them meat for a long long time. It was kind of a hoot in that one family just knew that another family was stealing hens to eat from them and it turned out that was the meat cooker of the 6 familes that lived on the ranch. I think Lion and Boar is correct in it seems like them do crave meat especialy if they learn how to develop a taste for it from whatever source be a dead calf stuck ina cripple cow or in a stew pot or even eating live gar caught in the river, i saw hogs doing that one time when a bunch of hogs caught a aligator gar spawing hole kinda stopped up by a logjam in shallow water, filthy beasts were catching gar in chest high water live raccons or something, i still hate to think of eating a gar since then, i see a black sow holding one in her mouth going snap snap!!!!!lol