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A population of hard-to-eradicate ‘super pigs’ in Canada is threatening to invade the US
AP via Yahoo ^ | 11/22/2023 | STEVE KARNOWSKI

Posted on 11/22/2023 1:01:00 PM PST by DFG

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.

In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat. They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create a “super pig” that's spreading out of control.

Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada's leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, “the most invasive animal on the planet" and “an ecological train wreck.”

Pigs are not native to North America. While they've roamed parts of the continent for centuries, Canada's problem dates back only to the 1980s when it encouraged farmers to raise wild boar, Brook said. The market collapsed after peaking in 2001 and some frustrated farmers simply cut their fences, setting the animals free.

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TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: agriculture; canada; feralpigs; superpigs; swine; wildboar
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To: DFG
You know how you can tell they're from Canada?

When they grunt they say; "Oink, eh?"

(I'll be here all week, be sure to tip your waitress!)

21 posted on 11/22/2023 1:25:08 PM PST by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: DFG

pew pew pew

🐖 🔫


22 posted on 11/22/2023 1:25:54 PM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: DFG

Are they immune to bullets? No? Good.

Free bacon to be had. No bag limit. Always in season.

Have at it fellas.


23 posted on 11/22/2023 1:28:05 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: madison10

Generally pretty good! Feral pigs have a better diet than all but the most gourmet of farmed pigs. All delicious for bacon and sausage. Definitely need to marinate any chops and ribs you take out of the bigger boars, otherwise too gamey.


24 posted on 11/22/2023 1:28:53 PM PST by only1percent
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To: madison10

Most people only eat them prior to 3 months old.


25 posted on 11/22/2023 1:33:51 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: DFG

Just shoot them and have a bacon, pork chop, rib fest.


26 posted on 11/22/2023 1:34:09 PM PST by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: DFG

This will put a kink in the establishment’s plan to feed us bugs.


27 posted on 11/22/2023 1:35:46 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: wildcard_redneck

IIRC, Alberta offers a bounty on feral hogs (does not include politicians or other 2 legged kinds). They do incredible damage to crops and habitat. The problem is, Alberta is large and sparsely populated. Of 4.4 million people in AB, 2.8 live in Calgary or Edmonton. Lots of agricultural and pasture land on which the hogs can live.


28 posted on 11/22/2023 1:37:02 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: DFG

Not sure about other venues, but in Texas there is no season, no limit, no restrictions on how to bag ‘em. Land of bacon and sausage and mmm-mmm good ribs!


29 posted on 11/22/2023 1:40:41 PM PST by szweig (HYHEY Have You Had Enough Yet??!?)
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To: DFG

Just when food prices are highest, we have pigs delivered. Thank you, Canada, for not taking care of that problem.


30 posted on 11/22/2023 1:43:12 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: DFG

What do you call a Pig ridin a Hawg?

* I don’t have an answer, but thought it made for an interesting Mind Picture.


31 posted on 11/22/2023 1:43:36 PM PST by lee martell
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To: DFG

Win 94 in .30-30 with 180gr SP’s...

Unless it’s a hogzilla... you can fill your freezer easily.


32 posted on 11/22/2023 1:46:27 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: gundog

Swine taste better when you smoke them...

Pali’s... not so much.


33 posted on 11/22/2023 1:47:28 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: lee martell
Meals on wheels....


34 posted on 11/22/2023 1:50:01 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: madison10

I was wondering the same thing, a high-speed piece of lead strategically placed would stop even super pigs, I bet the bacon is especially good.


35 posted on 11/22/2023 1:50:15 PM PST by srmanuel
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To: DFG

Roast Boar is hard to beat.


36 posted on 11/22/2023 1:50:19 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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To: DFG

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states

No problem in the states they call them democrats hacks nobody will know the difference.


37 posted on 11/22/2023 1:52:17 PM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: Sirius Lee

Hahahah!! Good one!

On a more serial note, why is it that urinalists these days always use “doomsday” adjectives to describe everything? Makes me want to vomit.


38 posted on 11/22/2023 1:55:36 PM PST by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: DFG

Bring back the saber tooth tiger. 😏


39 posted on 11/22/2023 1:58:31 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: DFG

“A population of hard-to-eradicate ‘super pigs’ in Canada is threatening to invade the US”

I doubt they’re any worse than the FBI.


40 posted on 11/22/2023 2:00:49 PM PST by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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