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re: Wild hogs chomp and stomp their way through $90 million worth of Louisiana crops
Posted on 2/21/24 at 11:51 am to Tigear
Posted on 2/21/24 at 11:51 am to Tigear
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Why don't we take the prison guards out with their trucks to shoot as many as possible at a time then have the prisoners field dress them & load them into trucks?
Because some crunchy bleeding heart progressive would whine about how that’s slave labor.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 11:54 am to Oilfieldbiology
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Because some crunchy bleeding heart progressive would whine about how that’s slave labor.
if you've read the 13th amendment... it is.
I don't have a problem with making them do that, FWIW.
but under the 13th, the institution of slavery was just moved under a different umbrella. nationalized, if you will. no more private slaves, you heathens.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 11:56 am
Posted on 2/21/24 at 11:58 am to Oilfieldbiology
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What?
As to the rest of the article, how do we fix it?
You incentivize killing the hogs. The only people with direct skin in the game are already fighting the war, but it isn't enough. Others aren't motivated enough to keep up the pace needed to curb the problem. There are historical accounts of ridding an ecosystem of invasive, destructive species, but it is usually a complicated, drawn out, and expensive process.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:01 pm to LegendInMyMind
quote:this is how you get more hogs.
You incentivize killing the hogs
Hunting them is now an industry, hogs aren’t going anywhere.
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:02 pm to John88
Apocalypse Sow: Can Anything Stop the Feral Hog Invasion?
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There are now at least 35 states with wild pig communities: California recently relaxed restrictions around hunting its growing population, and in Florida, where pigs have been spotted in every county, panthers feast upon them. Humans have, as yet, found no way to kill feral pigs fast enough to keep up with their profound fecundity. It’s a problem of our own making. Over thousands of years, humans in Europe and beyond bred pigs to achieve fertility younger and to have more piglets every year. “We created an animal that was capable of doing exactly what it’s doing,” Tomecek said. A sow as young as five or six months old can conceive, on average, four to six piglets, and Texas Wildlife Services typically observes sows delivering a litter every seven months for the duration of their reproductive life spans—a volume of piglets that inspires an involuntary Kegel. DNA tests show that litters often reflect multiple paternity, in which different piglets in the same litter have been fathered by different boars. Like a virus that is infectious well before symptoms appear, pig populations explode so quickly that landowners often fail to recognize they have a problem in time to swiftly contain it.
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Many look hopefully, or at least curiously, to a research team at Auburn University, which is working to develop immunocontraception for pigs. That team faces the same strictures of any contraceptive targeting an invasive species, however: either it must be engineered to affect only wild pigs or it must be delivered using a method that ensures no other wildlife is likely to consume it. Pigs could be caught and hand-injected with a contraceptive, Tomecek said. “The argument is then: Why would I let them go?”
This post was edited on 2/21/24 at 12:07 pm
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:03 pm to TheFlyingTiger
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if you've read the 13th amendment... it is.
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Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Sorry to take this on a tangent, but am I missing something? How would this not be allowed, but picking up litter on the side of the road is?
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:04 pm to YungBuck
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They make a great sausage, if they are big enough you can get a rack of ribs
Anything over 70 pounds is disgusting
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:06 pm to John88
Is it even feasible to fence in the crops? I know fencing can be really expensive and the hogs can dig under but wouldn't it slow them down enough if you manage the fence lines? This along with hunts, trapping, other control measures might be enough. But, again, fencing might not be feasible if the cost is too high. Any other suggestions?
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:06 pm to Pintail
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Sorry to take this on a tangent, but am I missing something? How would this not be allowed, but picking up litter on the side of the road is?
Prisoners at Angola have been farm and livestock workers since it opened essentially.
I mean, it's called 'The Farm' for a reason.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:07 pm to Techdog89
I was just looking at getting a thermal for this very reason. Hog Hunting
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:07 pm to ItzMe1972
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Call Yawt Yawt!
Knocking heads and feeding families!
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:15 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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how do we fix it
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The wolf is the wild boar's main predator in most of its natural range except in the Far East and the Lesser Sunda Islands, where it is replaced by the tiger and Komodo dragon respectively.
Sounds like you baws need tigers and Komodo dragons.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:18 pm to turnpiketiger
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Anything over 70 pounds is disgusting
Thats crazy. The meat doesn't even get tough until around 150 lbs. But even a 150-175lbs female makes great sausage. <175lbs female all day. <150lbs male all day. The 70lbs piglets are good to cook whole though. It all makes great pork meat.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:19 pm to John88
Open season year round no restrictions
No license to hunt them
No license to hunt them
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:33 pm to mthorn2
I don't take the time and effort to process wild hogs into sausage.
I just debone and cook it for the dogs and cats. My animals love wild hog.
I just debone and cook it for the dogs and cats. My animals love wild hog.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:33 pm to turnpiketiger
Simply not true. We killed 6 this year on our lease. The biggest being almost 200 lbs, and the smallest about 80. The meat in everyone of them was good. Larger boars meat can get pretty disgusting, for sure, but your statement is very false.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:36 pm to John88
I would gladly shoot hogs for free. I bet a lot of guys would. But nobody is inviting me to go onto their property to do it. And then there are “ranches” that charge $1 per pound to shoot a feral hog which quickly renders it too expensive to bother with. Those places aren’t interested in eradicating the hogs.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:37 pm to El Segundo Guy
I have a guy a couple miles from me that hunts wild hogs with dogs. He has some curs he uses as chase dogs and then a pit bull he uses as a catch dog. He has to put body armor on the pit bull.
Anyway, he uses no firearms. Just ropes to wrangle the wild hog then a knife in the throat to kill it.
I never would have believed how crazy it was if I hadn't gone with him once. Talk about some crazy Okie fun.
Anyway, he uses no firearms. Just ropes to wrangle the wild hog then a knife in the throat to kill it.
I never would have believed how crazy it was if I hadn't gone with him once. Talk about some crazy Okie fun.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 12:37 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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What?
As to the rest of the article, how do we fix it?
Boar-Da-Patrol
Posted on 2/21/24 at 1:04 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
I read an article several years ago about an Alabama university developed a "poison" for hogs that was not harmful to anything else. I think it was a salt/sodium based stuff the pigs liver could not metabolize. It was super cheap and 100% effective. Pig basically went to sleep and never woke up.
Never heard about it again. My guess is it was too effective? Anyone else recall this?
Never heard about it again. My guess is it was too effective? Anyone else recall this?
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