Boar taint is said to be be genetic. Some lines are not supposed to have any.
I read an article of a guy who was trying to breed a taint free line. He would biopsy a small piece of the back fat to see if it tasted of taint. I never had the urge to sample one of my hogs though.
The only way to get rid of it that I have seen proven was to castrate then feed for a few months. Big boars will bleed lots though. I haven't done this and after looking at how my 800LB boar moves anything in his way I don't think i would want to try. He's a pet now though as he's too big to breed.
I had a boar die once in the winter. Put him out back and in the spring he hadn't been touched by anything, not even the birds. What a mess.
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