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America is facing 'time-bomb' explosion of millions of 'super pigs' that can reproduce at just three months old, grow up to 400lbs and destroy thousands of square miles of farms and livestock
UK Daily Mail ^ | September 22, 2020 | James Gordon

Posted on 09/22/2020 5:55:34 AM PDT by C19fan

The United States is on the cusp of a huge pig 'time bomb' with the number feral hogs increasing in huge numbers.

Research scientist Dr. Jack Mayer, a zoologist who has been researching wild pigs for 40 years, has warned that the population could keep on growing unless there is a sudden swine flu epidemic.

'It's a crazy situation with everything that's happened in what I call the Pig Bomb, which has exploded in North America,' Jack Mayer told The Daily Beast about the wild population of six million and two million in Texas alone.

Florida, Georgia, and California also have vast populations.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: agriculture; pigs
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To: Gahanna Bob

Shooting them isn’t effective in significantly reducing the numbers. The sounder may have anywhere from half a dozen - 40 or more pigs. If you and a couple of buddies manage to find them and you’re equipped with thermal vision scopes at the first shot they star running. So you get one for sure and if you’re all good at hitting fast moving targets maybe three more. Next night they’ll be someplace else so you keep looking and find them again after a few days. Still hard to hit and kill any significant number. You can spend ever night for weeks and not get rid of one sounder. Best way is to trap them in a corral trap and then shoot them before they can dig out.


41 posted on 09/22/2020 6:22:58 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: treetopsandroofs

I’ll guess that you don’t have much experience raising hogs.


42 posted on 09/22/2020 6:24:41 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Mouton

The only real problem is the lack of ammunition.

I cannot find cheap ammo anywhere. Even Wolf or Tulo Russian 7.62x39 is going for $15-$20 a box!

I don’t know about .308 but I don’t think it’s much better.


43 posted on 09/22/2020 6:25:46 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The only thing worse than COVID-19 is Biden-20!)
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To: C19fan

As I understand it, it’s shoot all you want year around in Georgia


44 posted on 09/22/2020 6:26:29 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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To: treetopsandroofs

At 3 Months old, little piglet’s are at their tastiest and easy to cook.


45 posted on 09/22/2020 6:28:26 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: from occupied ga

46 posted on 09/22/2020 6:29:13 AM PDT by Zeppelin (Keep on FReepin' on...)
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To: SamAdams76

I had pork belly nuggets for the first time over the summer.
My new favorite food.


47 posted on 09/22/2020 6:29:15 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: from occupied ga
traps work


48 posted on 09/22/2020 6:29:26 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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To: C19fan

Unlimited spare ribs? Excellent. I just got a Traegger.


49 posted on 09/22/2020 6:30:07 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus (This what a Godless society looks like. Expect it to get more violent and more perverse.)
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To: V_TWIN

We have an incipient invasion of these critters into Southern Canada. I had a supposedly educated biologist tell me it wasn’t a real issue as the cold would kill them off. I gather she never heard of a Russian Wild Boar. Russia probably has cold weather too.


51 posted on 09/22/2020 6:34:20 AM PDT by firedoggy111 (Books, Articles on the Spanish Civil War)
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To: C19fan

Make it open season all year long with no limit.

Set up traps to capture the whole sounder and then shoot them like fish in a barrel.

It’s the ONLY way of dealing with them.


52 posted on 09/22/2020 6:35:39 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: C19fan

but even if three quarters of the population is killed off, they would be able to fully repopulate within three years.


that is what the model says. Tired of stupid people.

Not if the hunting pressure continues.


53 posted on 09/22/2020 6:35:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: from occupied ga

My buddy just had a recent infestation. His field looked like a minefield after they got done with it. The State and Feds have teamed up here in Missouri and they come out and trap them. They use a huge trap to try and get the whole group at once.


54 posted on 09/22/2020 6:36:15 AM PDT by Pollard (You can’t be for “defunding the police” and against “vigilantism” at the same time.)
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To: AppyPappy

Dog food then.

Dogs won’t care.


55 posted on 09/22/2020 6:36:26 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: C19fan

Some of them even run for governor.


56 posted on 09/22/2020 6:37:01 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: C19fan

The solution is simple. Year round hunting season. No bag limit.

Everybody loves barbecue and bacon.


57 posted on 09/22/2020 6:38:10 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Pollard

They use a huge trap to try and get the whole group at once.


and then releases back into the wild?


58 posted on 09/22/2020 6:38:27 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Zeppelin

They’re FAST.

They must have heard the noise of the trap triggering.


59 posted on 09/22/2020 6:38:32 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: FLT-bird

They got of taste better than tough venison.


60 posted on 09/22/2020 6:39:59 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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