Gaining ground. Hunting will not stop wild pigs invasion in Canada.

Jaaska said:
True enough . My parents had friends who escaped the communists from Estonia . No running water in the rural areas but no outhouses either . They built shytters on the side of the house with a dugout under it . Hogs would go in the dugout and eat human shyte so no need to ever shovel it out . Like eating at a Husky truck stop .
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Nasty!
 
anglia2 said:
We definitely don't want them in our ecosystem . They are a very destructive species , and more importantly , are not native to this country . They should be eradicated period , along side any other non-native species .
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Fisherman are going to love you, lol.
 
anglia2 said:
We definitely don't want them in our ecosystem . They are a very destructive species , and more importantly , are not native to this country . They should be eradicated period , along side any other non-native species .
They are also a dangerous species . I'll be the first to call it , how long before we see Wild Boar defense threads ?
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Shooting wild pigs in defense of person or property ??
Not required.
If you have a small game licence I would be gassing those things any time/ any where (within the confines of local discharge by-laws)
 
I got thinking the other day wild pigs are lightweights compared to the beaver problem we have...In our parkland area of Manitoba beavers are doing an enormous amount of damage to the forest and at the same time flooding many acres of hay and pasture lands...We have had wild pigs roaming in the past and I would take them over beavers any time...Just had an excavator hired for 6 days and the beavers are already rebuilding what we cleaned out...Beaver hunting is great sport but on our 3200 acres I can't keep them under control.
 
Lastgun said:
I got thinking the other day wild pigs are lightweights compared to the beaver problem we have...In our parkland area of Manitoba beavers are doing an enormous amount of damage to the forest and at the same time flooding many acres of hay and pasture lands...We have had wild pigs roaming in the past and I would take them over beavers any time...Just had an excavator hired for 6 days and the beavers are already rebuilding what we cleaned out...Beaver hunting is great sport but on our 3200 acres I can't keep them under control.
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why don't you get a licensed trapper to control the population? i suspect it'll be cheaper than hiring an excavator for a week each year. beaver populations can be very efficiently controlled through trapping.

wild boar on the other hand is not, they move around too much.
 
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park.city said:
why don't you get a licensed trapper to control the population? i suspect it'll be cheaper than hiring an excavator for a week each year. beaver populations can be very efficiently controlled through trapping.

wild boar on the other hand is not, they move around too much.
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Beavers only became a problem when the price of furs went down. Thanks to groups like PETA.
 
park.city said:
why don't you get a licensed trapper to control the population? i suspect it'll be cheaper than hiring an excavator for a week each year. beaver populations can be very efficiently controlled through trapping.

wild boar on the other hand is not, they move around too much.
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We have had and do have trappers that try and keep the pests at bay but because of the lay of the land...A 800 square mile swamp to the east and the Duck Mountains to the west both acting as an infinite reservoir of beavers the problem is endless.

Like I said we have had wild Russian pig roaming around our neck of the woods and they were a picnic in the amount and type of damage they caused and much easier to control then these pesky beavers...I have seen beavers clear and flood many whole quarter sections of mature parkland type forest and the hay lands and pastures mixed in.
 
trebor2880 said:
Beavers only became a problem when the price of furs went down. Thanks to groups like PETA.
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The statement above is pure truth.

Back in the day when fur had more value the beaver was trapped to the point of extinction and was not even known in the area that I ranch...Believe me the beaver population has fully recovered and moved into areas not ever before infested.
 
They have to be cooked through, but they are tasty as hell. I have had it in the US in several states. Taste depends on diet, but the grain and corn fed ones are fattier then the deep south where they eat a lot of peanuts and other plants.
 
Ed Smurf said:
Just wondering what they do with the carcasses...for $2500. could be a lot of bacon.
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They leave them, it's not worth flying around to get them or driving through farmer's fields.



Dukester said:
Thanks for the vid. Some great shooting. Grabbed a price from their website.

Heli Hunt Pricing

$1250 per hour per shooter with 2 hour minimum to book ($2500 each)

They like 6 hunters in a group. Actually not that bad when you consider the maintenance cost on the birds.
I don't know if my old ticker could take two hours of that !
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The one company's heli was $1.4 million USD and you had to rebuild the turbine after 800 starts or so many hours. I think it was roughly $400k a rebuild.


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Jaaska said:
True enough . My parents had friends who escaped the communists from Estonia . No running water in the rural areas but no outhouses either . They built shytters on the side of the house with a dugout under it . Hogs would go in the dugout and eat human shyte so no need to ever shovel it out . Like eating at a Husky truck stop .
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If you would see what chickens eat, you'd probably never buy another egg.
 
Pig Island Park


You know one thing about wild boars is people like to keep their hunting areas hush hush when they are only doing a disservice to the environment and other game species by not letting others in on the hunting. There's far more pigs than what hunters could ever shoot and now this is the end result of that selfishness.
 
Tell us how many you see that look like the picture in Post #102 - I was under impression that Texas is "over run" with domestic breeds that have gone feral - got away from farmer - not the Eurasian Wild boar - would be good to hear from someone who was there in Texas to see!!! As I recall, the Eurasian Wild Boar were also brought to Sask. farms circa 1990's(?) - idea was to create better / more markets - some got loose - and went from there... Sort of about the same time that elk and whitetail deer ranching came around in Saskatchewan - which lead to CWD, etc. that was passed on to the wild ones..

Was common in 1960's to see some pigs on most mixed farms in Saskatchewan - but "modern" swine production mostly now is in super sterile enclosed buildings - really intensive desease controls - you change clothes, disinfect, etc. to enter and exit a modern pig barn - not at all like old days - "modern domestic pigs" likely would go down in a day or two on the loose - never been exposed to disease of any sort - no capacity to deal with it. So is actually a bit unusual to see "free range" pigs, outdoors, on a farm these days, at least in this part of Manitoba. Not at all like the ones that went "feral" - there were "wild feral pigs" along creek near our farm in 1950's, Sask - domestic pigs that had got loose from my Dad's farm and neighbours - they apparently did fine for many years, including over winter - but they were not the "wild boars" from Europe.
 
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