Beware the new boar is coming via Canada.

[Kurt]

We gots them here.

[TomatoNut95]

Oh how I hate feral hogs, we have a lot of them around here in Texas. Not enough people to hunt them so they just tear up property.

[worth1]

Oh how I hate feral hogs, we have a lot of them around here in Texas. Not enough people to hunt them so they just tear up property.

Yeah and for most they taste horrible.
I've heard people say they eat wild boars but if they're big no way can you eat the smelly things.

[karstopography]

I’ve shot a few. My kids have shot way more, yet the hogs make more. I’m not interested in shooting any more, the time I did shoot them was like I was drafted into the effort to thin the numbers, like a war. Do your part, help against a common enemy, Kill a hog. I think it was 2021 when I last shot a feral hog. Sort of a horrible target practice. @worth1 we leave most of them lay. I think the kids take select young sows and young ones and make sausage with them. My cousins catch nuisance hogs. I think they might sell some. Feral hogs are part of the ecosystem now. Terrible for snakes and any ground nesting birds, Venomous snakes included.

I hope the hogs stay away, there are wild hogs on either side of me maybe a mile away. They come in my yard, my feelings about shooting any will change.

[TomatoNut95]

I’ve shot a few. My kids have shot way more, yet the hogs make more. I’m not interested in shooting any more, the time I did shoot them was like I was drafted into the effort to thin the numbers, like a war. Do your part, help against a common enemy, Kill a hog. I think it was 2021 when I last shot a feral hog. Sort of a horrible target practice. @worth1 we leave most of them lay. I think the kids take select young sows and young ones and make sausage with them. My cousins catch nuisance hogs. I think they might sell some. Feral hogs are part of the ecosystem now. Terrible for snakes and any ground nesting birds, Venomous snakes included.

I hope the hogs stay away, there are wild hogs on either side of me maybe a mile away. They come in my yard, my feelings about shooting any will change.

I'll hate hogs even more if they hurt my roadrunners. Nobody messes with my roadrunners.
Send your family here to get rid of all my hogs, they can have their pick of sausage.
My uncle was showing me the pics off his game camera, there were 3 main things: deer, hog and raccoon. It's was disgusting. Only saw one coyote, one feral house cat and 1 rabbit. Most of it was dumb doe and families of hogs. Yuck!

[worth1]

Turning hogs loose is like turning carp loose in a lake.
No real way to get rid of them.
I also feel the farmers in Texas got greedy and wanted everyone to pay to shoot them.
I won't pay to shoot a deer much less a hog.

[karstopography]

@TomatoNut95 so there are roadrunners up your way? I’ve never seen a roadrunner around here. Lots of roadrunners out in Sutton county where I last saw one and also the last place I shot a hog. Wild quail are about extinct in most of Texas and I blame the imported fire ants with an assist from the feral hogs.

[JRinPA]

Turning hogs loose is like turning carp loose in a lake.
No real way to get rid of them.
I also feel the farmers in Texas got greedy and wanted everyone to pay to shoot them.
I won't pay to shoot a deer much less a hog.

It is no mistake that those snakeheads showed up in the chesapeake tribs, either. They wanted them for chinese restaurants. So the whole place is turning into a fish farm. They don't care about the native species.

[JRinPA]

BTW just watched that video...old news I think, but it is cute how they played some fairy tail music to make it seem it is just a bee in some mean people's bonnets.

[TomatoNut95]

@TomatoNut95 so there are roadrunners up your way? I’ve never seen a roadrunner around here. Lots of roadrunners out in Sutton county where I last saw one and also the last place I shot a hog. Wild quail are about extinct in most of Texas and I blame the imported fire ants with an assist from the feral hogs.

Yes we have a pair of roadrunners. They're very cute and entertaining to watch and hear when they coo or make that vibrating/rattling noise. Once I heard one cluck like a chicken.

Wild quail are extinct here.
Imported fire ants?????

[Kurt]

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We made good money after changing our hunting/eradication methods.At first we sent dogs after them,they would corral them and we would shoot them after pulling the dogs away.Sometimes the mutts would get bored or nipped.Our emergency wound dressing was super glue to close the smaller wounds.We would get 100 for boars and 200 for the females.The farmers paid cash on the spot.He would put them in his truck and off. to the dump.Then the tree stand method came about,farmer would put massive amounts of fruit,melons,pumpkins whatever he threw away from harvests anyway.They would wallow in a huge hog pile.Now you had to be in a tree stand above them and wait like the deer hunts.We use a Calico 200 round air soft magazine gun.Sounds like a fart.One shot to the head top.Too old now to be climbing trees.I myself have a pet boar.You can bring one or two sucklings,feed them clean food for a couple of weeks,fatten them up you are good to go.Prices are down now.My nephews are still doing it.

[karstopography]

@TomatoNut95 so there are roadrunners up your way? I’ve never seen a roadrunner around here. Lots of roadrunners out in Sutton county where I last saw one and also the last place I shot a hog. Wild quail are about extinct in most of Texas and I blame the imported fire ants with an assist from the feral hogs.

Yes we have a pair of roadrunners. They're very cute and entertaining to watch and hear when they coo or make that vibrating/rattling noise. Once I heard one cluck like a chicken.

Wild quail are extinct here.
Imported fire ants?????

Imported fire ants, these fire ants we have aren’t native. They arrived on a ship from South America that docked at Mobile, Alabama sometime in the middle late part of the last century.

Quail disappeared from much, virtually all of the range where the imported fire ants colonized. Those ground nesting birds could not cope with the invading ants.

[TomatoNut95]

Imported fire ants, these fire ants we have aren’t native. They arrived on a ship from South America that docked at Mobile, Alabama sometime in the middle late part of the last century.

Quail disappeared from much, virtually all of the range where the imported fire ants colonized. Those ground nesting birds could not cope with the invading ants.
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Goof grief.
Sounds like the spread of the African killer bees. I watched a Monster Quest show about those evil things. Animals/wildlife are dangerous, and most people don't understand that relocating stuff that's not native is really asking for it.
I get so mad at people the way they do animals, wild or not. Another monster quest show featured a semi-abandoned town in Illinois that had packs of feral dogs (descended from abandoned pets) roaming around and some were known to attack and kill people for no reason. What's even dumber is that people are leaving the dogs to roam, not killing or capturing them.
People do not know how to handle animals, they're dumber than the animals themselves.

[worth1]

The black fire ant arriving 1908 or something and the red in 1930 or something.
Both in Mobil Alabama.
The other thing that whiped out the Bob white is urban sprawl taking up the land.
I imagine the Blue qual is still out in West Texas.

[Shule]

Oh how I hate feral hogs, we have a lot of them around here in Texas. Not enough people to hunt them so they just tear up property.

Yeah and for most they taste horrible.
I've heard people say they eat wild boars but if they're big no way can you eat the smelly things.

Have you tried using lots of capsaicin? I understand the people who made chili in the early days did that with spoiled meat to make it palatable. It might work with meat with flavor and smell you just don't like, too.

Or, how about lots of pineapple?

[worth1]

Oh how I hate feral hogs, we have a lot of them around here in Texas. Not enough people to hunt them so they just tear up property.

Yeah and for most they taste horrible.
I've heard people say they eat wild boars but if they're big no way can you eat the smelly things.

Have you tried using lots of capsaicin? I understand the people who made chili in the early days did that with spoiled meat to make it palatable. It might work with meat you just don't like, too.

Wild boar smells like urine.
It's horrible.

[Shule]

Oh how I hate feral hogs, we have a lot of them around here in Texas. Not enough people to hunt them so they just tear up property.

Yeah and for most they taste horrible.
I've heard people say they eat wild boars but if they're big no way can you eat the smelly things.

Have you tried using lots of capsaicin? I understand the people who made chili in the early days did that with spoiled meat to make it palatable. It might work with meat you just don't like, too.

Wild boar smells like urine.
It's horrible.

They might have a lot of nitrogen in them. Do they decompose fast? I wonder if you made jerky if that would dissipate the nitrogen and reduce the smell (if pork jerky is possible).

[worth1]

Oh how I hate feral hogs, we have a lot of them around here in Texas. Not enough people to hunt them so they just tear up property.

Yeah and for most they taste horrible.
I've heard people say they eat wild boars but if they're big no way can you eat the smelly things.

Have you tried using lots of capsaicin? I understand the people who made chili in the early days did that with spoiled meat to make it palatable. It might work with meat you just don't like, too.

Wild boar smells like urine.
It's horrible.

Any male animal warm blooded mammal needs to be castrated at a young age or it will stink and or be tough.
Hogs in particular.
I've made ham out of really young boar before and it isn't bad.

[TomatoNut95]

What about the females? What if you soaked the meat in BBQ sauce?

[worth1]

What about the females? What if you soaked the meat in BBQ sauce?

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No the females don't stink like that but the wild hog we grew up eating was different than the wild hog we have here.
I was in the mountains of South Eastern Oklahoma and the hogs where Hampshire's from a herd that got loose in the national Forest only a few generations or years before before.
The boars were formidable and mean to say the least.
Nothing I'd want to tick off with a Peewee 223.
Gun of choice was a modified 30-06 called a 30 Gibbs.
Better yet a 45-70