i lived in New Iberia for awhile and spend a summer in NO, i still miss the Boudin...
Posted on 03/30/2014 10:02:32 AM PDT by BBell
Feral hogs continue to feast on West Bank levees, prompting the authority responsible for 100 miles of flood protection to seek help from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office. Major damage has been reported along the V-line levee south of Marrero as well as to structures in Jean Lafitte National and Bayou Segnette State parks.
"It's a lot of work to keep repairing the same thing three days later. You go back out there and they tear it up. It's costing the parish a lot of money,'' Chris Muscarello, operations superintendent of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Authority-West said.
In the worst-case scenarios, the hogs have caused as much as 25 percent damage to the levees, management and technical consultant Bill Fogle said.
The authority sought help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture last fall in determining the size of the hog population. But levee officials said the state is trying to coordinate control efforts with the agriculture department and that a pilot project is underway in which the west authority could benefit.
Besides the sheriff's deputies, Fogle said another option is a company that uses dogs to round up the boars, at $20 per head.
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I think Louisiana and Texas have year round hunting of feral hogs with the purchase of a hunting license. In the 1930’s my grandfather paid for his first home by trapping hogs in the Neches River bottom. He paid the carpenter with bacon. Hunters around my home love to hog hunt using traps and dogs. Some people feed out some of the hogs and eat the pork. Feral hog meat is very strong and I don’t like it. We don’t have very many PETA people around here.
I live on a private airport.
They can tear up runways or taxiways in no time.
We hunt them 24/7.
No problem even at night.
Feral hogs will soon be everywhere on the mainland. Are they any good for BBQ?
http://www.ehow.com/info_8579047_list-states-feral-hogs.html
The meat from an uncastrated mature boar is rank but the sows and shoats are excellent eating.
Hogs and Nutria.
Just declare an open season on them. The coonasses will take care of dat!
You might be a CoonAss if... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSmqBPCPqBc
Born and raised there. I have cousins you’d swear are Swamp People extras....
Sadly, because the culture is laid-back and the food is beyond compare, I can’t see raising my children there. Have been a Georgia resident for the past 18 years, primarily because of Louisiana’s culture of corruption and the abysmal school systems.
I may move back after my kids are grown and gone.
Just out hunting pigs today. Didn’t wind up seeing any but saw plenty of sign of them.
Just start a rumor that pigs are good to eat...
i lived in New Iberia for awhile and spend a summer in NO, i still miss the Boudin...
I have a friend at work who makes pretty good side money trapping a selling feral hogs. They are so prolific and there are so few who do what he does that he has an endless supply. The wild ones don’t get those hoghouse diseases.
Per your #28; I just found our I’m about 1/3rd coonass.
i think we all are... 8^)
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