Feral Swine in the United States:
This map hails from 2014, and the problem has grown and spread since.
Posted on 11/24/2023 5:26:30 AM PST by jerod
Suppressors are already legal for hunting in Missouri.
I can’t believe the story fails to mention CLIMATE CHANGE . . .
Online message boards dedicated to hunting are filled with posts from Albertans searching for clues about how — and where — to harvest the animals.
The province doesn't give out locations "due to privacy issues," it says.
There's the problem right there.
Imagine how much crop damage could be saved if they killed off a million pigs by allocating $200 million towards a $200 bounty per pig.
Unless you trap and castrate the boar piglets, they are inedible.
Slaughter hogs are mostly barrows and gilts.
I eat fetal hogs all the time in Texas. I can tell no difference, large or small. Occasionally, when a boar is in the mood for love, they can be all stinkied up.
Feral, not fetal. They might be good as well.
https://youtu.be/ofB-LOgrQV0
Hunting hogs from trucks with night vision
My farmer friends will kill 30 in a night using semi-auto rifles and night vision. A pack of hogs can destroy an acre of crops a night, even eat the roots of cotton plants - pluck them out of the ground and take one bite of the root.
They also bring in helicopters and hunt from them.
One friend has a picture with 6 hogs hanging from a cultivator that he and his son shot while standing on the sides of the cultivator at night. This picture was spread nationally by the TX Dept. of Agric.
Not true. I eat sows and boars equally. I just lay open the spine and take the pork loins off. Then, move back and take the hams off. No gutting. No stinch.
https://youtu.be/eOYjvJFTXf4
Better video. This was the one I wanted
Insane - I’d love to do this
Feral Swine in the United States:
This map hails from 2014, and the problem has grown and spread since.
That looks like a fire ant map.
There are not enough hunters... There was a time when everybody hunted because there wasn’t a grocery store down the street... Now that there’s a 7/11 on every street corner, there is no need to hunt.
The hunting culture is dying out and as it does more and more wild and feral animals will multiply and become a nuisance that will require culling at some point.
So you don’t care how much of other people’s property they destroy as long as you get to have your fun.
You’re probably the kind of clown who would release them.
> Muslims hate pork, so I say let as many of them in as possible.
Doesn’t work. Some Israelis tried that against their Muslims, and the Muslims just ignored the pigs, and vice versa. Now the area is overrun with feral swine, too.
At a time of very high grocery prices, free Bacon, Ribs, Pork Loin, Pork Chops, Pork Sausage and Pulled Pork is headed are way? People will be able to get a couple large cooler’s full for the low low price of one .223 round of ammo?
Sounds like a great deal to me.
They’re full of parasites.
Pigs run all over the Levant.
The Romans introduced them and they’ve been a problem ever since.
So this is the animal kingdom’s version of woke leftist demrats.
FWIW, the reason these wild pigs are not used for meat on our tables is because they carry diseases not always rendered harmless by cooking it.
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