Boar taint is a risk too high

If you don’t castrate you run the risk of boar taint – 50% of uncastrated boars in Australasia exceeded the sensory threshold level of androstenone and skatole, the chemicals that cause boar taint. In some Irish work almost 1 in 10 carcasses will be severely tainted. If you don’t castrate you run the risk of boar taint. In a recent Pig Progress article (Vol.22 no.5 pg.6) there was an excellent graph demonstrating that 50% of uncastrated boars in Austra