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'Super pig' Prairie problem now approaching the U.S. border (tasty pork cutlets and ribs are heading in your direction)
AP via CBC News ^ | Nov 23, 2023 | Steve Karnowski

Posted on 11/24/2023 5:26:30 AM PST by jerod

Hard-to-eradicate swine exploding in Canada and threatening to spill south of the border: expert

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.

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."

They are often crossbreeds that combine the survival skills of wild Eurasian boar with the size and high fertility of domestic swine to create what Brook describes as a "superpig" that's spreading out of control.

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.

It turned out that the pigs were very good at surviving Canadian winters.

Smart, adaptable and furry, they eat anything, including crops and wildlife. They tear up land when they root for bugs and crops.



TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bbq; pig; porkchop; swine
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Suppressors are already legal for hunting in Missouri.


21 posted on 11/24/2023 6:25:17 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: jerod

I can’t believe the story fails to mention CLIMATE CHANGE . . .


22 posted on 11/24/2023 6:28:30 AM PST by Charlemagne on the Fox
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To: jerod
Zero kills to date in Alberta's bounty hunt on invasive wild boar

Online message boards dedicated to hunting are filled with posts from Albertans searching for clues about how — and where — to harvest the animals.

The province doesn't give out locations "due to privacy issues," it says.

There's the problem right there.

23 posted on 11/24/2023 6:28:37 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
“The feral hogs running free in the state (of Missouri) today are the products of human-instigated illegal releases of feral swine into the wild,” said Jason Jensen, who represents MDC in the Partnership. “These unlawful actions were committed by people who sought the recreational value of feral hog hunting opportunities.”

https://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/feral-hogs-missouri-illegal-release-transport-has-driven-damage-over-decades

24 posted on 11/24/2023 6:30:45 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: jerod
Wild pigs already cause around $2.5 billion in damage to U.S. crops every year, mostly in southern states such as Texas.

Imagine how much crop damage could be saved if they killed off a million pigs by allocating $200 million towards a $200 bounty per pig.

25 posted on 11/24/2023 6:33:02 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: jerod

Unless you trap and castrate the boar piglets, they are inedible.

Slaughter hogs are mostly barrows and gilts.


26 posted on 11/24/2023 6:40:07 AM PST by FarCenter
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To: Feckless

I eat fetal hogs all the time in Texas. I can tell no difference, large or small. Occasionally, when a boar is in the mood for love, they can be all stinkied up.


27 posted on 11/24/2023 6:42:20 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

Feral, not fetal. They might be good as well.


28 posted on 11/24/2023 6:43:55 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

https://youtu.be/ofB-LOgrQV0
Hunting hogs from trucks with night vision
My farmer friends will kill 30 in a night using semi-auto rifles and night vision. A pack of hogs can destroy an acre of crops a night, even eat the roots of cotton plants - pluck them out of the ground and take one bite of the root.
They also bring in helicopters and hunt from them.
One friend has a picture with 6 hogs hanging from a cultivator that he and his son shot while standing on the sides of the cultivator at night. This picture was spread nationally by the TX Dept. of Agric.


29 posted on 11/24/2023 6:45:18 AM PST by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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To: FarCenter

Not true. I eat sows and boars equally. I just lay open the spine and take the pork loins off. Then, move back and take the hams off. No gutting. No stinch.


30 posted on 11/24/2023 6:46:10 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: TStro

https://youtu.be/eOYjvJFTXf4
Better video. This was the one I wanted
Insane - I’d love to do this


31 posted on 11/24/2023 6:48:42 AM PST by TStro (Better to die on your feet than live on your knees)
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To: jerod
I appreciate the problem up in Canada and any Northern FReepers facing it, but down here in the South, it has been a long ongoing crisis:

Feral Swine in the United States:

This map hails from 2014, and the problem has grown and spread since.

32 posted on 11/24/2023 6:49:06 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

That looks like a fire ant map.


33 posted on 11/24/2023 6:51:35 AM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: Alas Babylon!

There are not enough hunters... There was a time when everybody hunted because there wasn’t a grocery store down the street... Now that there’s a 7/11 on every street corner, there is no need to hunt.

The hunting culture is dying out and as it does more and more wild and feral animals will multiply and become a nuisance that will require culling at some point.


34 posted on 11/24/2023 6:56:40 AM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: TStro

So you don’t care how much of other people’s property they destroy as long as you get to have your fun.

You’re probably the kind of clown who would release them.


35 posted on 11/24/2023 6:58:15 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

> Muslims hate pork, so I say let as many of them in as possible.

Doesn’t work. Some Israelis tried that against their Muslims, and the Muslims just ignored the pigs, and vice versa. Now the area is overrun with feral swine, too.


36 posted on 11/24/2023 7:11:26 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("All he had was a handgun. Why did you think that was a threat?" --Rittenhouse Prosecutor)
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To: jerod

At a time of very high grocery prices, free Bacon, Ribs, Pork Loin, Pork Chops, Pork Sausage and Pulled Pork is headed are way? People will be able to get a couple large cooler’s full for the low low price of one .223 round of ammo?

Sounds like a great deal to me.


37 posted on 11/24/2023 7:11:43 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: jerod

They’re full of parasites.


38 posted on 11/24/2023 7:17:59 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Pigs run all over the Levant.

The Romans introduced them and they’ve been a problem ever since.


39 posted on 11/24/2023 7:20:16 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: jerod

So this is the animal kingdom’s version of woke leftist demrats.

FWIW, the reason these wild pigs are not used for meat on our tables is because they carry diseases not always rendered harmless by cooking it.


40 posted on 11/24/2023 7:23:30 AM PST by Boomer (The Long Winter is coming...)
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