pigs pigs pigs

[knabe]

went down south to check on my cows and saw this driving back.

sorry the pic is bad, it's from an iphone

 

[kfacres]

you make it sound like you drove to texas to check cows...

I'd a seen how many i could run over..

 

[ruhtram]

Looks like theres a large problem your way!

 

[texas111]

Looks like Texas.  We are over run here as well.  Its hard to get rid of them once they have established themselves in an area.

 

[ploughshare]

Full bloods or PBs?

 

[Shorthorns4us]

Ok, I dread this problem coming to our area-- we have word that they are in north Missouri and already in very SW Iowa in Page county!!!
These guys get into my fields and destroy a crop-- I am bankrupt
I have watched the shows this winter on Nat Geo and Discovery and Animal Planet about the Hoggers, etc--  I know that they can't show everything on TV, but really
how do you handle these things?  Can you just go out and start blasting, can you actually trap them, etc
Great topic- what do you do?
Thanks
EF

 

[firesweepranch]

went down south to check on my cows and saw this driving back.

sorry the pic is bad, it's from an iphone

You know, it was just down the road from you a bit where they killed and butchered a wild hog near a spinach field that contaminated the spinach with e coli! Right out our back door, in Salinas! Actually, Gonzales. When we lived out there people were hunting wild pigs all the time! It was considered a good source of meat, and they were not considered a nuisance. People hunted hogs out there like people hunt deer here in Missouri!

 

[nate53]

You could probably trap some of them but shooting would be alot faster and more effective (more fun).  Would the food banks take them?  I'm sure they are quite destructive and can be very dangerous but according to Peta, HSUS they have as much or more right to be here than we do?  What do they taste like? 

More income for gov., they sell everybody tags-permits!!

 

[peachy]

Our county was full of them 15 years ago. They got down to 12 cents a lb and they all disappeared.  (lol)

 

[knabe]

You know, it was just down the road from you a bit where they killed and butchered a wild hog near a spinach field that contaminated the spinach with e coli! Right out our back door, in Salinas! Actually, Gonzales. When we lived out there people were hunting wild pigs all the time! It was considered a good source of meat, and they were not considered a nuisance. People hunted hogs out there like people hunt deer here in Missouri!

actually it was along highway 25 in a field on the san benito ranch as a probable though not proven source. it hasnt been conclusively proven what the actual culprit is. it seems to be in a lot of things. the end result was a lot of expensive fencing and no real solution.

the two deaths were from expired product, with one couple making a shake and fed to their infant and the other a bag that was expired with a older couple.

basically the stuff is everywhere.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2007-03-23/bay-area/17237743_1_spinach-field-mission-organics-wild-pigs

notice the democrat in the story calling for more regulation even though the problem hasnt been identified yet.

and proper expiration date adherence, better washing of product with bleach, even if organic would help.

but hey we need to more regulation but keep the cost of food the same and dont enforce the same rules on importers.

i had a neighbor who hunted them all out of the pinnacles park which is surrounded by pig fence.

 

[DCC show cattle]

You can trap them and shoot them if any of you northern boys need some help or advise let me know! Down here in texas we run traps year around and also hunt them they are frustrating and destructive but the back straps out of a pig are really good eating as long as its a young sow

 

[texas111]

you can hunt them with dogs, catch them, tie um up, and remove them from your property.  if they have large teeth you can sell them to raches/hunters for a generous profit.  what ever you do get a jump on them before they overteke your area.  they reproduce every 3 weeks & 3 days.  doesnt take long for them to establish and destroy land.

 

[firesweepranch]

you can hunt them with dogs, catch them, tie um up, and remove them from your property.  if they have large teeth you can sell them to raches/hunters for a generous profit.  what ever you do get a jump on them before they overteke your area.  they reproduce every 3 weeks & 3 days.  doesnt take long for them to establish and destroy land.

Try 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days! But they do not come into heat until they wean the litter, so two litters a year is usual. But, at 10 plus pigs in a litter (at least domesticated pigs!), that is a lot! Sexual maturity at 6 months....

 

[brs5]

GIT UR GUNS!!!!!! <rock>

 

[Mueller Show Cattle]

I had alot of fun killing hogs for the fun of it in Florida. Orchard farmers will let you hunt them for free, some over feeders as the hogs are destroying orange orchards. I have a friend who lives down there invited me down and told me to bring my rifle, killed alot of hogs and was a blast. Way too cold for the hogs to move out by me. In Florida like most states, they are a nuisance and you can kill or trap as many as you want without a license.

 

[texas111]

Yeah oops i meant to put that in there.  its been a long day.  3 moths 3 weeks and 3 days gestation.  sorry bout the typo.

 

[hamburgman]

It may be cold in Wyoming, but Russia isn't known for mild winters and parts of Germany have nasty ones also, and most swine descend from such ancestors and it doesn't take long for those genes to start being expressed again.

 

[nck21]

No wild pigs in Kansas that I've seen....yet.

 

[kfacres]

I had alot of fun killing hogs for the fun of it in Florida. Orchard farmers will let you hunt them for free, some over feeders as the hogs are destroying orange orchards. I have a friend who lives down there invited me down and told me to bring my rifle, killed alot of hogs and was a blast. Way too cold for the hogs to move out by me. In Florida like most states, they are a nuisance and you can kill or trap as many as you want without a license.

this is very true... my parents are going down hog hunting in FL in a couple weeks.  There are a couple of guys through my dad's work that come to IL deer hunting every year, and we 'guide' them around- so they invited m&d down. Said just bring yourself, and clothes-- we'll do the rest.. They hunt over feeders, with whatever gun you want, do hog drives.. and even use the dogs..  I know 'rents are really looking forward to it... 

 

[Mueller Show Cattle]

It may be cold in Wyoming, but Russia isn't known for mild winters and parts of Germany have nasty ones also, and most swine descend from such ancestors and it doesn't take long for those genes to start being expressed again.

Big big difference between a Russian boar and these wild feral pigs. Try to find pig farms/ranches in Wyoming, very few around and most that have pigs, that is not what they mainly raise and have the set up for the pigs. We are way to wide open with very little trees. The wind comes blasting through in the winter with 40 to 50mph winds. They don't have the trees to get down into to ovoid the elements. With that being said, they are easy picking out on the wide open pastures for all the varmints and hunters. The other issue is the vegetation. Pigs root and tear up the ground to eat the roots of of different plants, that's what killing the orange orchards. What do we have for them to eat, grass and sage brush we do have some corn and sugar beets in eastern Wyoming with irrigation. I don't expect a hog problem in Wyoming in any foreseeable future. When I lived in Missouri, there was a group of feral pigs that got loose from a high fence hunting ranch in the area of my dad's farm, the local farmers had all the pigs killed in a couple days as they are not a game animal in Missouri either, you see a wild pig, shoot it no license needed.