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War against feral hogs rages on

Monday, 4 January 2016, 19:15 MJA Uncategorized 47

MyStatesman: […]  While many people are familiar with the havoc feral hogs have wreaked in recent years on the agricultural industry by eating crops and digging ruts in fields that can break farm equipment, Dornak, the coordinator of the Plum Creek Watershed Partnership, came to the subject from a different angle.

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“The hogs use streams and rivers as highways, which is a really, really big environmental issue,” he said. “They defecate in and near the water, and we’re talking tens of thousands of pounds of feral pig manure in the state of Texas.”

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47 Comments on War against feral hogs rages on

  10. Just tell the hippies that the hogs are not indigenous and they are hurting the environment and that is why we need guns so as to kill them.

    Then sit back and watch the hippy’s head explode as they work that through their flow charts.

  15. Queue President Lazlo cut five Go!
    “Today I have pardoned five hundred breeding pairs of feral hogs and have issued an executive order that they be immediately transported to Syria, Afghanistan, and parts of Iraq.”
    “Future breeding pairs will be pardoned and trained by DARPA for covert insertion into parts of Iran and North Korea.”

  17. For everyone that thinks it’s a waste of meat to not eat them all – there are too many of them for that. Eradication is the goal. Like vermin.

    The hogs left in the field are not going to waste – nature is eating them. From vultures to insects, they are not going to waste. The big ones are not good eating anyway.

    I would like to see a law implemented in Texas. No money made off of hog hunts.

    It is absolutely a conflict of interest. The land owner has NO incentive to be completely rid of them. In fact, they do what they can to encourage the amount of hogs on their land because it means MONEY to them. The hogs do not stay on their property so they (hog hunt providers) are a good part of why the hogs can’t be eliminated.

    Millions of dollars of destruction to crops and the hog hunt providers only care about their own pockets.

    I’d love to go hog hunting but refuse to pay for it. I’d be providing a service that I’d cover the costs of – my gas, my firearm, my bullets etc., but draw the line at supporting the problem.

    I am considering expanding my services to trap whole sounders for farmers and ranchers. I have been asked enough times to see an opportunity. The two that asked this year drew the line at just shooting them because of their livestock.

    Elimination should be the only goal.

  22. My comment was based on my personal motivations as an apex predator, rather than some misguided ‘moral’ position.
    From that perspective, if a kill does not bring meat to my table, it is wasted regardless of where it ends up.
    As to the argument against free markets, if a property owner can better prosper by selling hunting privileges than other types of food why would you deny them that option?
    That has worked very well here in CA. The wild boars have learned where there is private and public land, and as a result overrun the latter. Yes, we hunters suffer as the pigs mock us from the other side of the line, but enough of them cross over to make it worthwhile for us to continually retrain them.
    On the other hand, you could have the BLM handle the problem by forcing you out so that there is a safe place for the pigs to live.
    The choice is yours. Please, choose wisely.

  30. On the money JohnS from another Californian. I’ve done public, guided, and private property. It’s capatalism at its finest. And by the way the sub 200 lb hogs are better eating than anything you can by at the store.

  32. Not trying to guilt anyone – just enlighten that they are NOT game animals but an invasive non-native species devastating the natural flora and fauna and costing everyone here higher prices for their food.

    You’ve completely skipped over the fact they are a nuisance pest that must be eliminated.

    Fostering an industry based on hunting them is counter to eradicating them. No other way to put that.

    Like killing rats. I don’t eat them nor worry about them. I just stop them from ruining your groceries and crops and spreading disease. No matter that the “let all animals live” people want me to live trap rats and let them go in a field somewhere.

    There is a real reason there is no season or limits on hunting feral hogs in Texas. Use a bazooka if you want.

    Bringing a hunter’s creed of “not wasting meat” to this animal is very misplaced. Eat all you can but kill them all. They are a pest not a game animal.

  33. Oh, and come to Texas if “public” land is stopping you.

    While you don’t need a hunting license on your private property to kill them here – you only need a general hunting license to do it on public grounds.

  34. Coincidentally, my wife just asked a small, local sheep rancher if he ever sells his lambs to private parties, and he said he would, but he doesn’t have any! He said the feral pigs ate all of his lambs, leaving his ewes all crying in anguish for their losses. I think I would have been shooting feral pigs long ago, if I were in his position. Pigs are apparently Hawaii’s coyotes.

    BTW, here, if you trap a pig here, you can call someone from a non-profit to come haul it away. They butcher the adults for food for the poor, and raise the piglets for later.

  40. I live in florida, and we have enough of a feral hog problem that I won’t walk alone at night in our subdivision. I’ve seen huge pigs as road-kill on the side of the road around here. Can only guess they total cars when hit.

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