re: How do yall feel about poisoning feral hogs?

I don't like it one bit. I look at the hogs as another game animal and an added bonus while deer hunting. I know they tear shite up but damn i like to eat them.

I really dont approve either, of course we aint over run with them. I find it hard to believe there is too much wild game but they aint around here guess cause we ate em.

I hear u but man they are fun to hunt year round. The line has to be drawn somewhere i suppose.

If you arent killing 80% of the hogs off a property a year, then their numbers are increasing...

It has to be ingested at a level of 50-500 mg/kg to be lethal.

You won't find it in the water.

Something has to be done. They're ruining deer habitat, which makes deer population suffer.

Poisoning should be a very last resort. I'm all in favor of other methods

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Where is Bleeding Purple on all this?

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I am not in favor of this specific poison. there was some research on a hog specific consumed birth control that could be quite interesting if implemented correctly.

The issue I see is this is NOT a novel chemical or swine selective poison. It is plain old kill everything by making it bleed out warfarin. It is transferrable to predatory animals consuming the poisoned swine. Since the concentration must reach a certain level before becoming fatal in hogs (and all animals) it is quite possible to not realize you are harvesting and consuming a poisoned hog. There is no regulation that I see to publically post the use of the poison so neighboring land owners are aware the poisoned hogs on their property. Hogs are said to have a 6 mile home range.

From Kaput web site "Dogs and other predatory and scavenging mammals and birds might be poisoned if they feed upon animals that have eaten the bait. Do not apply this product directly to water, to areas where surface water is present or to intertidal areas below the mean high-water mark."

This is just not a clean non environmentally impacting answer and there may never be a good one. Pig anatomy and physiology is just too close to human and as omnivores their food intake overlaps that of too many other species.

This seems like a horrible idea since they unlike most nuisance animals are great table fare. If your neighbor is poisoning them and you shoot one and eat it from your property... I think there will be human deaths from this.