Some local news from my neck of the woods. Basically, out of state agitators have bullied some snowflakes. Well, to be fair, if I were getting death threats, I might back off too.
People who threaten like that need to be found out and prosecuted. Way too much of that in this country.
They are not to released.
We have enough wild hog population here, to assure it will never be eradicated.
Nobody smart gets in a pen or truck with wild hogs. No kind of protection can help you. Baby pigs? May be.
Russet hogs here often go over 400 pounds. We have made a lot of sausage out of some of them. They are very lean. I’d steer away from Large Boars, if you want to eat the meat they need preparation.
They are smart, It is legal to hunt them from the air in helicopters and that has not put the needed dent in their numbers.
All I can say good about wild hogs and raccoons? They both are know to eat rattle snakes. But the real snake killers are the Badgers. It is a big piece of their diet. I leave badgers alone. we have one who lives around our shops at the farm. No way would I run him off he devours too many snakes.
That’s okay-my neighbors and I have been talking about this for awhile-and we know those who sided with the misinformed “animal rights” fools will probably experience a shunning from most county residents-this is an agricultural/ranching area-not a city full of people who think food is grown at a grocery store by magic...
some people trap wild hog piglets or sows and pen them in with their domestic pigs for either breeding or eating-but if they are breeding in the wild and out of control, like they are now, they destroy crops, dig up gardens and compete with livestock for food-I’m more afraid of a feral hog than I am of a mountain lion-they are totally unpredictable and a costly menace.
Those hogs used in the event are not mistreated/hurt in any way-never have been...
By next year the event will have more sponsors who have a set and the PETA ass**** will go bother someone else...
First it was midget tossing and now it’s wild hogs....where will it stop?