Depends on their diet. Eating soybeans, corn and acorns, our river bottom hogs are usually fat and eat well.
We don't eat boars, although young ones are OK before they start to mature.
+1 on wearing rubber gloves, maybe double gloves. Feral hogs can carry diseases and parasites. The ones most likely to affect humans are Brucellosis (Bangs disease) and Tularemia (Rabbit Fever). Other diseases/parasites are more risk for cattle, etc.
Hogs are nasty critters. I've posted before that we put a trail camera at the camp "bone yard" where we drag carcassas. We would see carcasses eaten down to skeletons the next day. Man, we though, those coyotes are really active. Nope, it was hogs eating hogs.
Having said all that, hogs are great table fare when they're fat and the meat is handled with care, into the cooler ASAP.
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