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

The latest control proposal out of Texas is birth control laced bait. The theory is that if hogs start dying, the survivors will figure out that the bait is poisoned and stop eating it, but if mama hog hasn't had a litter for a while, the time lag is enough to prevent them from making the connection.

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uglydukwling said:
The latest control proposal out of Texas is birth control laced bait. The theory is that if hogs start dying, the survivors will figure out that the bait is poisoned and stop eating it, but if mama hog hasn't had a litter for a while, the time lag is enough to prevent them from making the connection.

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Birth Control? Just poison the SOG's! Done, and done!
 
trebor2880 said:
Birth Control? Just poison the SOG's! Done, and done!
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They've tried that for years and it is proven to not work. Just look at the problems all over the states, there's more feral pigs than illegal immigrants down there, lol. And that's not even discussing all the indigenous wildlife that will be accidentally poisoned. Poisoning is an unworkable answer to the pig problem.
 
elimsprint said:
They've tried that for years and it is proven to not work. Just look at the problems all over the states, there's more feral pigs than illegal immigrants down there, lol. And that's not even discussing all the indigenous wildlife that will be accidentally poisoned. Poisoning is an unworkable answer to the pig problem.
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I be talkin' 'bout "lead" poisoning. Gov't supplied to the eradicators to use in their newly re-classified non-restricted AR's.
 
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Why not? said:
Old news, and an update, on wild hogs in Canada.

Several of you guys warned about this. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/hunting-wild-boar-not-enough-saskatchewan-1.3657341

At least NWT is looking to preempt the problem there. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/wild-boar-sightings-map-1.4401795

The map in the second article makes it appear they are gaining ground pretty quick. Wondering if many of you guys are actually seeing them?

Ted
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They will be a big problem the next few years.
 
All we need to do is wait a few years for the populations to explode and the agri business and snowflake citiot hikers and birdwatchers get a bit tore up by a some of them and the entire narrative will turn on a dime. Politicians will be falling all over themselves to quell the chattering hoi polloi.
 
Hunting them for food is all fine but.... the experts say it breaks up the large family groups that are much easier to catch than singles and small groups and makes truly controlling or eradicating them much harder to do. So which do you want, some sport hunting with the effect of actually helping them survive and expand their destruction or no hunting and at least a chance of taking care of the problem?
 
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elimsprint said:
Hunting them for food is all fine but.... the experts say it breaks up the large family groups that are much easier to catch than singles and small groups and makes truly controlling or eradicating them much harder to do. So which do you want, some sport hunting with the effect of actually helping them survive and expand their destruction or no hunting and at least a chance of taking care of the problem?
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The governments will take option 3: Do nothing and watch the problem get bigger anyway.
 
DFarmer said:
The governments will take option 3: Do nothing and watch the problem get bigger anyway.
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Too true, lol. Actually they will pay all their buddies huge bucks to study the situation and then they will take option 3 and blame us colonialist racists for the problem.
 
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elimsprint said:
Hunting them for food is all fine but.... the experts say it breaks up the large family groups that are much easier to catch than singles and small groups and makes truly controlling or eradicating them much harder to do. So which do you want, some sport hunting with the effect of actually helping them survive and expand their destruction or no hunting and at least a chance of taking care of the problem?
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That would be a valid argument if they're actually doing it... but are they, and where? And if so, are they doing it enough to make a difference? Because it seems to be still getting worse, and I can only imagine there isn't anywhere near enough resources put towards it.

Maybe in areas where they aren't actively trapping entire groups and the population is a bit more sparse, they could have open season -- even have a specific license for it (similar to small game license) so hunters can contribute financially towards expanding trapping in more problem areas. Lots of hunters looking for something tasty to hunt, especially in the off-seasons.
 
I don't see how wild pigs could be a problem... I mean if anything its probably taste better than commercial pork... just give us a chance, Ontario doesn't even allow hunting wild pigs...no wonder its becoming a problem.
 
Thirsty_Fox said:
That would be a valid argument if they're actually doing it... but are they, and where? And if so, are they doing it enough to make a difference? Because it seems to be still getting worse, and I can only imagine there isn't anywhere near enough resources put towards it.

Maybe in areas where they aren't actively trapping entire groups and the population is a bit more sparse, they could have open season -- even have a specific license for it (similar to small game license) so hunters can contribute financially towards expanding trapping in more problem areas. Lots of hunters looking for something tasty to hunt, especially in the off-seasons.
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All through the southern states they are learning from their mistakes and finding things that work way better than just hunting them willy nilly. The problem down there is that this knowledge has come a little late and the problem is already insurmountable. It's not too late up here, maybe!
 
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