the wild pig problem

PSE said:
While I consider a young wild boar some of the best eating I have tasted, (double smoked hams are excellent) and they are challenging and sporting to hunt, I wouldn't wish them on anyone especially rural folk with agricultural interest. With few natural predators and an enormous appetite which translates into constant rooting the soil for food they can be very destructive to agricultural land.

Imagine a quarter section with enormous holes, troughs and hills all over it coupled with uprooted plants and natural waterways that are pock marked and filthy because of wallows.

In places like Texas where the pigs are wide spread, they are considered public enemy #1 and a great deal of expense and effort is spent to eradicate them. Fencing is of limited value and the only thing that really works is electrical fencing.

All I'm saying to some CGNers who want ready, close hunting access to wild boar is be very careful what you wish for.;) The hunting benefit you reap is not worth the cost in destroyed crops, gardens and fences.

We have enough of a problem with white-tailed deer where I live, I couldn't imagine wild boar!!
Click to expand...


i live on a farm and i know my crops will suffer but i like free bacon to ;)
 
PSE said:
While I consider a young wild boar some of the best eating I have tasted, (double smoked hams are excellent) and they are challenging and sporting to hunt, I wouldn't wish them on anyone especially rural folk with agricultural interest. With few natural predators and an enormous appetite which translates into constant rooting the soil for food they can be very destructive to agricultural land.

Imagine a quarter section with enormous holes, troughs and hills all over it coupled with uprooted plants and natural waterways that are pock marked and filthy because of wallows.

In places like Texas where the pigs are wide spread, they are considered public enemy #1 and a great deal of expense and effort is spent to eradicate them. Fencing is of limited value and the only thing that really works is electrical fencing.

All I'm saying to some CGNers who want ready, close hunting access to wild boar is be very careful what you wish for.;) The hunting benefit you reap is not worth the cost in destroyed crops, gardens and fences.

We have enough of a problem with white-tailed deer where I live, I couldn't imagine wild boar!!
Click to expand...

I have to imagine them, my problem with wild boar is that real ones never show themselves where and when I'm hunting. I have so much sympathy for farmers who suffer from their depredation I will go anywhere I can afford if a farmer will tell me he has some.
 
TheTooner said:
I have to imagine them, my problem with wild boar is that real ones never show themselves where and when I'm hunting. I have so much sympathy for farmers who suffer from their depredation I will go anywhere I can afford if a farmer will tell me he has some.
Click to expand...

We have them so bad in the Southern US, I have literally been bounced out of the tractor seat while dragging a disc. Between them rooting and a little erosion it makes for a heck of a tractor ride.
 
Price449 said:
Thanks for translating SKYPILOT. I liked your other post regarding drones. You seen like a "Dandy Chap".

South Oshawa is a special place but I regress. There is nothing worse than being on the outside of an inside joke.
Click to expand...

Thanks, I think. Can you translate Dandy Chap for a Southern Boy from the States? lol or do I want to know?

I do know about Southern shwa in a roundabout way.lol
 
My concern is boar taint which is the older males meat all stunk up with testosterone etc. That cant be pleasant. Sows and piglets (male or female) should be fine. That said, they are invasive so paste em on sight.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom