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Wild Pigs Found With Blue Meat in California Spark Alarm
SFGate ^ | Aug 4, 2025 | Kasia Pawlowska

Posted on 08/05/2025 11:50:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway

A wildlife trapper in Monterey County made an unexpected discovery after capturing a series of wild pigs in March of this year. While processing the animals, the trapper found several with blue-tinged muscles and fat tissues. The bizarre discoloration is a result of exposure to diphacinone, an anticoagulant rodenticide that is often dyed to identify it as a poison, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

In an email to SFGATE, Fish and Wildlife pesticide investigations coordinator Ryan Bourbour said that the trapper observed the wild pigs eating directly from rodenticide bait stations. The scope of the contamination appears extensive across the southern part of Monterey County and along the Salinas River, according to KSBW-TV.

Wild pigs are adaptable hybrid creatures. Part domesticated pig, part wild boar, they can weigh upward of 200 pounds and now live in 56 out of 58 counties across the state. SFGATE previously reported on their increasingly aggressive behavior, including charging at a hiker.

Vince Bruzzone, owner of Full Boar Trapping & Wildlife Control, is familiar with the oddity. “I have heard of this happening in agricultural ‘heavy’ areas like Salinas and other parts of the Central Coast,” he told SFGATE in an email.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: bluemeat; california; wildpigs
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Wild pigs in the Monterey County area were exposed to pesticide bait containing the anticoagulant rodenticide diphacinone. Rodenticide baits often contain dye to identify them as poison.



Wild pork... the other blue meat.


It tastes like smurf.

1 posted on 08/05/2025 11:50:01 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Only no one ever got poisoned eating smurf!


2 posted on 08/05/2025 11:54:19 AM PDT by null and void (We are living through the greatest of all ICE Ages.)
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To: nickcarraway

Reason #1001 to not eat wild pig.


3 posted on 08/05/2025 11:55:01 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: nickcarraway

“...Part domesticated pig, part wild boar...”
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And...the ‘wild boars’ are domesticated pigs that have gone feral.


4 posted on 08/05/2025 11:55:36 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: null and void

Maybe they were drinking colloidal silver


5 posted on 08/05/2025 11:59:07 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: MeanWestTexan

C’mon, man. I eat them every year. I only shoot them during the winter so I don’t have to sweat butchering them. Ha. I just lay the knife along their spine and take off the loins. Then, move back and take the hams off. No need to gut them. Buzzards gotta eat, same the worm.


6 posted on 08/05/2025 11:59:35 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Repeal The 17th

It takes only three generations of domesticated pig crossing with wild boar to be indistinguishable from that of the wild boar population. Apparently all the traits of domesticated breeds of Pigs are recessive in that gene pool.


7 posted on 08/05/2025 12:02:02 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: nickcarraway

Somebody is trying to poison what should be shot.
Probably due to gunfire restrictions or brain dead Bambi watchers.


8 posted on 08/05/2025 12:02:24 PM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

It’s sad, because they are a great source of meat.


9 posted on 08/05/2025 12:06:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: crusty old prospector

Ok Josey Wales.


10 posted on 08/05/2025 12:07:59 PM PDT by Hammerhead
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To: nickcarraway

While processing the animals, the trapper found several with blue-tinged muscles and fat tissues.

Goats seen eating something looking like a space ship..............


11 posted on 08/05/2025 12:10:56 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: nickcarraway
It tastes like smurf.

That is hilarious! Only you would think of that.

12 posted on 08/05/2025 12:11:13 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: Hammerhead; crusty old prospector

GTT


13 posted on 08/05/2025 12:11:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Repeal The 17th

Not really all of them. European Wild boar was released into the wild I believe by the explorer Desoto on his trek west. You can see this in some wild hogs by the long snout and wirery hair that have cross bred with domestic feral hogs.


14 posted on 08/05/2025 12:12:30 PM PDT by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: GingisK

What can I say...


15 posted on 08/05/2025 12:12:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Take a bow. We desperately need you here.


16 posted on 08/05/2025 12:13:55 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: nickcarraway

Where is the blue food?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04dn8Msm-Y


17 posted on 08/05/2025 12:16:06 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: blackdog

I still find quite a few with the Spanish bloodlines (spotted, orange sometimes) in E TX and Louisiana.


18 posted on 08/05/2025 12:20:03 PM PDT by waterhill (Nobody cares, work harder!)
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To: GingisK

Thanks.


19 posted on 08/05/2025 12:20:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Gone to Texas?


20 posted on 08/05/2025 12:25:16 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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