BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[hellbender]

I'd rather the pig doesn't come back. Haven't had to deal with them here before. If they're here they're here though, guess they're like rats once they get established. Can't be the state is doing well at eradicating them. Went from open season on them to closing hunting cause they think it made them smarter/harder to get rid of. DEC is supposed to be using traps and helicopters now, I doubt they are doing much good. Haven't heard. If it was working I'm sure they would be bragging.

DNR re-introduced them to the southern part of West Virginia about 30 years ago and now they have reached a few counties here in the Central Highlands. They are protected and will be hard pressed to ever eliminate.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

Hellbender are you saying Feral pigs were purposefully introduced into WV and they are protected? Why ? Boars/ Pigs aren't native to North America, are they?

 

[Beer can]

Invasive species here. They always said they expected them at some point coming up from PA. Had some Eurasian one's escape a farm up north. Now they are banned to possess or breed. Couple places I hear have gotten around the law by offering hunts on black heritage pigs now, probably Choctaw hogs. DEC is not happy with this, but I don't think there is anything they can do about it. I called the DEC after seeing it. They said I can't hunt it but if it endangers livestock, or us, damaging property than I can shoot it.

 

[Beer can]

@CanadianBuckeye I was going to say you might have them up your way eventually, it was Syracuse area they escaped, not too awful far from you as a crow flies. I've had truck drivers delivering milk where I work who have said they've seen groups of them crossing the highway up in Syracuse area. They would have to figure out how to cross the great lakes or st. lawrence though, you might be safe Lol!

 

[varidgerunner]

The feral hog "epidemic" is one of the biggest government grandstanding schemes perpetrated on the populace in our times. Government biologist goes on TV on one of the fiftyleven Hogzilla shows, next thing you know, people are shocked and outraged and government biologists have job security for the next hundred years. Fact is, without constant restocking efforts, (usually thanks to fenced hunting preserves) or a darned near tropical climate, hogs populations don't do what the reality shows tell you they do. West Virginia is a working example of that, they have been coddling those things for thirty years, non-residents can't even shoot them, residents can only shoot one a year, and you would have to look real hard to ever see one or the evidence of one.

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

@CanadianBuckeye I was going to say you might have them up your way eventually, it was Syracuse area they escaped, not too awful far from you as a crow flies. I've had truck drivers delivering milk where I work who have said they've seen groups of them crossing the highway up in Syracuse area. They would have to figure out how to cross the great lakes or st. lawrence though, you might be safe Lol!

I hear that pigs are good swimmers! They could easily island hop......
But why would feral hogs be a good thing?

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Bacon

 

[dfr1973]

I am flabbergasted that any state government would protect these prolific destructive monsters ... then again, we're in the "near tropical" environment that makes them a huge problem.

 

[Beer can]

I hear that pigs are good swimmers! They could easily island hop......
But why would feral hogs be a good thing?

NO, not a good thing, good thing big water might keep them from migrating up your way. They are destructive disease carrying vermin as far as I'm concerned. Wouldn't mind hunting and eating one, but I'd rather go somewhere down south for that, don't want them here.

 

[ronott1]

NO, not a good thing, good thing big water might keep them from migrating up your way. They are destructive disease carrying vermin as far as I'm concerned. Wouldn't mind hunting and eating one, but I'd rather go somewhere down south for that, don't want them here.

Here in the Sacramento Delta, Someone thought it would be a good idea to put pigs on a little Island to clear weeds. They do not leave that Island even though the distance from land is not too far. They are also not clearing the weeds. Pigs actually do not like to work that hard for food and will go hungry waiting for someone to bring them some grain. The situation is not good for the pigs or the Island sadly.