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To: Red Badger
Most pigs were allowed to "free range" up until the late 1800s. There were lots of conflicts between farmers of all sorts and pig owners.

Pigs reproduce rapidly, but it would take a while for them to increase to the point this would happen. The tribes learned to eat pigs pretty quickly, too.

In general, introducing an exotic species can have lots of effects.

12 posted on 01/02/2024 6:27:04 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain
The tribes learned to eat pigs pretty quickly, too.

And thus Barbecue was born!.................

16 posted on 01/02/2024 6:39:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: marktwain

The Tulsa World Sunday Magazine, sixty years ago, used to have a cartoon about early American life and it mentioned how the Indians, when on a raid, often ate the pork of the settlers they had attacked.

A magazine published about Arkansas, about 20 years ago had a great article on hog proliferation in Arkansas, from the first explorers who had some escape, till they found, on their return, the Indian tribes having problems with pigs destroying their crops.

In other news, the Mandans had a problem with a new creature undermining their homes, the RAT.


26 posted on 01/02/2024 7:18:40 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: marktwain

During WWII many people in Texas raised pigs because they were cheap, prolific breeders and Armour had a processing plant in Fort Worth. Lots of hogs were made into spam for the US troops.
It was easy to build a pen, buy a few dozen pigs and feed em scrap. Problem was the pigs get hungry. Cheap pens would not hold ‘em, so out they went.
The really cheap pig ranchers just used nose rings to hold them.
Just like those nose rings your daughters and granddaughters wear!!


44 posted on 01/02/2024 11:12:55 AM PST by 9422WMR
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