Good eating and as JBMac said just be cautious when butchering. Plastic gloves work fine to prevent any contamination if you have nick or whatever on your hand(s).
Considered domestic animals in FLA and can be harvested yr. round EXCEPT on the designated Wildlife Mgmt Areas (WMA). When found on WMA they are considered wildlife with specific regulations.
As a young man I worked at slaughter house and we would dip hogs in hot water and scrape hair. When I moved here to the South found a much faster and easier way to process them - SKIN 'EM just like a deer.
Every now and again folks will trap some and rls them around my place (way out in the piney woods). I shoot every one I see because I don't want them over running the place. So far no population here except in freezers.
On occasion we have caught some "piney woods rooters" and penned them up, corn fed to clean em out and fatten them for slaughter.
If you have a lot of them then I would process them and sell as sausage etc. if not considered wildlife. For cages we use hog panels and T-posts in circle format.
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