The biggest pest on the farm!!!Graphic

[lil'turkeymama]

Good job!We have them here,too,in north Alabama.They are by far the worst pest there is.We had 7 acres of corn almost totally wiped out this year.I got maybe a half a trailer when I used to get 4-5 full loads.We have tried hunting trapping and just trying to keep them run off.Very hard to deal with.I'm gonna try a electric fence this year.I wish they all would just keel over.

 

[halo]

Good job! Are those youngsters? I wish we could get more and more people hunting them. Hard to believe people are starving in this country, with millions of pigs running around free for the taking.

 

[CMV]

Nice work! They'll be some good eating. We don't have any feral populations up here. The terrain is too tough even for them. They are terribly destructive from what I've seen down South.

 

[woodmort]

NYS also has a shoot on sight 24/7/365 in any number but a hunting license is required. There are number of pockets of them scattered around NYS including (sorry to tell you this CMV) on the NY/VT border. We had an idiot that lives about 5 miles from me import and release Russian boars--he wanted to create a shooting preserve but changed his mind. Apparently he thought they'd stick close to where they were released, they haven't, have been spotted as close as 2 miles from my house. They would scare me more than a bear or coyote if I were to come across one when I was afield. I read an article a year or so back as to high reproduction rate of wild pigs, they can reach record numbers very quickly.

 

[Lbrad7]

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If I were you I would see if I could have your neighbors butt thrown in jail! Russian boar are no joke! They get huge and can be extremely aggressive. Once they breed into your native (I use the term native loosly when discussing hogs) hog population you can expect the average size to greatly increase and they will become much more aggressive. I agree with you...I had much rather run into a bear or coyote....heck even a mountain lion for that matter, than a big boar with the Russian blood in them.

The Russian/domestic mixed hogs have been in Georgia and Alabama for some time now. Remember "Hogzilla?" Well his size was topped by another hog in Alabama soon after National Geograpic did their story on him. I hope that problem doesn't make it to your neck of the woods. Sounds like thanks to your "genius" neighbor; Hogzilla could be on your door step in the very near future.

 

[desertdarlene]

Wow, I wouldn't have considered hogs as pests, but I do hear that some southern states have huge problems with them. I know they can severely injure humans, too.

 

[babalubird]

Wow. Can't believe you nailed so many at one time. You must be one heck of a shot. We're in Texas too. I've only seen one out in the wild around our farm, luckily I was in a 3/4 ton pick up and not afoot. I'm sure they come through our land late at night as all our neighbors have trapped them. I will probably be a basket case first time it happens.

Connie

 

[Illia]

There's a dog breed called the Dogo Argentino. For that type of pest, they're your BEST friend.

 

[D'Angelo N Va.]

7L the tusk on that thing is enough to make me hide in the house in the attic...

 

[NonnasBabies]

I live in South Louisiana and we have a real problem with them here!! So far we haven't seen them on our property but they've been sighted a few miles away. We have the same shoot them whenever you want day or night!!

This is how stupid some people are!!

http://lafayette.craigslist.org/grd/2124929589.html

So if you live in Opelousas, look what you have to look forward too!!