Actually that is not correct. Not even a little bit.
Show me a farmer who does not know where every one of his stock is. Especially since the hogs are raised in confinement environments so they can grow quicker, leaner, and more efficiently.
Most of the feral hog problems we have in Indiana are from some idiots who are to lazy to drive their worthless tails to another state to kill pigs. So they trapped pigs and brought them back to this state. So they could introduce a very destructive animal into this states environment.
This is what has happened a lot and has closed a lot of doors to good honest hunters and for all the good i apologize for thier descreations.
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When people make blanket statements about groups of people, they start to sound like liberals, to me.
So according to your statement, you're a liberal?
I don't ever want to see them get started around here! If they get started your deer and turkey will become few and far between! I have friends in Texas that are payed to kill wild hogs from helicopters and they rarely pick up any of them! They killed over 500 in one day this year! The ranchers their want them all dead because of killing newborn calf's!
Not entirely true. I spent this past winter and spring in Oklahoma and was able to kill multiple hogs on property with an abundance of deer and turkey. They do compete but have not excluded either. Just about every night there would be hogs chasing deer off the bait or just the opposite. We also had turkeys chasing hogs out of areas. The rancher never had any issues with them killing any calves, just destruction to his property.
I believe this turned out to be a neighbor's pet pot-bellied pigs, not feral hogs. There is another thread out there about this exact incident.
im sorry I couldn't hold the line to keep them from moving north.
Hold the line? I know a lot farmers dont want hogs, both sides of my family have large farms, but I think an unlimited supply of moving targets with no bag limit sounds like something I would welcome. Im not gonna lie, farmers are gonna hate on me, but I want hogs.