When you started this post I thought that you were talking about the left wing liberal WOKE brigade, seriously.
The feral pig problem in Australia is just as bad as your left wing woke brigade, in fact their numbers are increasing here too!
Massive shooting and baiting programmes make little effect on numbers. Australia being so vast and most of the country inaccessible aid in keeping feral pig populations high. They spread many diseases so it is not wise to eat them. During the dry season when cattle have to be fed supplements the pigs eat it all before the cattle. Damage fencing. Urinate and defecate in waterways or trough's, passing disease onto cattle. Rut up paddocks, increasing soil erosion when it does rain.
Down further South it is unknown how many thousands of tonnes of grain and crops are lost to pigs. It doesn't help when farmer's and land owners have been victim to trespassers, poachers and generally "cowboy's" who have done the wrong thing in the past. Now they won't let anyone on the place to help rid them of pigs!
When you started this post I thought that you were talking about the left wing liberal WOKE brigade, seriously.
The feral pig problem in Australia is just as bad as your left wing woke brigade, in fact their numbers are increasing here too!
Massive shooting and baiting programmes make little effect on numbers. Australia being so vast and most of the country inaccessible aid in keeping feral pig populations high. They spread many diseases so it is not wise to eat them. During the dry season when cattle have to be fed supplements the pigs eat it all before the cattle. During the dry season when cattle have to be fed supplements the pigs eat it all before the cattle. Rut up paddocks, increasing soil erosion when it does rain.
Down further South it is unknown how many thousands of tonnes of grain and crops are lost to pigs. It doesn't help when farmer's and land owners have been victim to trespassers, poachers and generally "cowboy's" who have done the wrong thing in the past. Now they won't let anyone on the place to help rid them of pigs!
They spread many diseases so it is not wise to eat them
All i can tell you is, if this is the case i should be dead... because ive been eating them since 1991...4 or 5 a year.
During the dry season when cattle have to be fed supplements the pigs eat it all before the cattle.
Not if you put it in a trough high enough the pigs cant reach it. which is about waist high.
Damage fencing. Urinate and defecate in waterways or trough's,
show me a hog that can urinate in a 3 foot high water trough....a pond yes. Maybe in Australia its the same thing?
Here they wander around until they find a spot they can go under the fence. Many farmers are drifting away from barbed wire and starting to use 4" square wire netting to keep them out.
Down further South it is unknown how many thousands of tonnes of grain and crops are lost to pigs.
in the US, at least in Texas, the high damage areas are using arial shooting by helicopter to help with this.
It doesn't help when farmer's and land owners have been victim to trespassers, poachers and generally "cowboy's" who have done the wrong thing in the past. Now they won't let anyone on the place to help rid them of pigs!
Im glad you brought that up, because i wasnt going to.....
Here in Texas, in the 2000's around the time the tv show "American Hoggers" was hot, we had a huge upkick in "good ol boys" running hog dogs. Problem is, down here, the land is criss-crossed with fences and a lot of it is smaller ranches. Dogs wont stop at the fenceline, they just keep on the hog. so what do the good ol boys do? they just whip out a pair of fencing pliers and cut the fence... and keep going behind the dogs.... next fence, the same thing. Then one day the landowner is missing a cow or two, or more.
This crap is a big reason people down here dont want anybody on their land down here. Its the same old thing... one group of fools ruined it all.
I personally am responsible for a group like this being hauled to jail. when they got done paying fines and doing their time they sold their dogs and decided to persue other passtimes.
Im not saying everybody that hunts with dogs is like this, i know its not the case. But here in my state, land ownership is a sovergn thing, and respecting it is something were taught from a very young age. Our ancestors fought a war down here for our right to own this land and we wont tolerate any disrespect of that. and were leery of outsiders to this day. Most of us honestly prefer to deal with our problems on our own.