Deer hunters face unwanted competition as feral hog explosion thins herds

[CP]

Interesting read.  The picture just makes my blood boil.   

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/31/deer-hunters-face-unwanted-competition-as-feral-hog-explosion-thins-herds.html?intcmp=hplnws

[SemperFidelis97]

Eye opening article.  The stupidity of the author is pretty saddening though, him blaming hunters for the expansion of feral hogs is pretty damn stupid.

[Cylvertip]

I'm thinking those are not the wild hogs/ ferels we have here in the States shown in that picture.  Those look more like a true wild pig from somewhere else in the world with a native to that area dear fawn.  

[REHJWA]

Hogs can cause amazing amounts of damage. I've seen field that look like bombs went off from their rooting..

[jmscon]

Didn't I hear there were Russian or Siberian hogs in Olympic National Park? I thought that there was a culling 10 or 15 years ago.

[PlateauNDN]

That's a warthog.

[warthog]

I'm thinking those are not the wild hogs/ ferels we have here in the States shown in that picture.  Those look more like a true wild pig from somewhere else in the world with a native to that area dear fawn.

these hogs are of russian/european descent .  lots of these in the u.s.   whitetail fawn.

i believe they just classify and lump all hogs as feral.  ( or just can't seem to match the pic with the title !  )

[warthog]

That's a warthog.

this is a warthog.

[PlateauNDN]

Puumba

[Gobble Gobble]

Free range bacon [insert bacon icon]

[Rem14]

Know a guy that was hired to shoot sheep and hogs on a island off the California coast. He said that everything he shot in one day, it was a lot, was  cleaned up by the  hogs before he got  back the next day. He was by himself and said he would hate to break a leg and have to spend the night!!!  Also knew a farmer who would feed Carp to his hogs when they came to spawn. They will definitely eat anything.

[The scout]

does look like a different kind of hog, time for some more heli hogging

[Dead-Eye]

Hunters aren't directly responsible for the spread of the hogs, but people who were (and are) trying to make money from hog-hunting have a lot to do with it. They've captured and trailered herds across state lines, intending to keep them fenced and used for hog hunts. But hogs have a way of finding holes and soft spots in fences.

Would the hogs spread that far anyway? Almost without a doubt, given enough time and the right food sources along the way. So I think it's probably more accurate to say that these hog-hunt guys were responsible for hastening the spread of the hogs.  It would happen anyway, and I think they're not done spreading yet, with or without help.

I'm wondering how far they'll spread before they're done. The Russian hogs imported for hunting have spread, and since Siberia is full of them, it doesn't seem to me that we'll see their spread stopping much before they reach Hudson Bay. 

[splitshot]

   can anyone tell what kind of deer that is?  is the pic taken in the usa?  mike w

[JimmyHoffa]

As pigs interbreed they regress back to the original stocks.  The modern pigs (hampshires, durocs, etc) are from lots of selective breeding.  So feral domestic pigs will eventually resemble the wild boar from the European forests.  Similar to how if you let dogs just mix it up they start to resemble wolves more and more.