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Has no effect on my bottom line agriculturally nor tax wise.

I’m not arrogant or stupid enough to think hogs are at the top of our tax problem

I’m curious what 11 states they were eradicated in. They certainly weren’t in my neck of the woods.

You gonna add fire ants, killer bees, and negros to da list ?

Why weren’t feral hogs a huge problem 30-40-50+ years ago? They certainly were around, their mating habits and Gestation period hasn’t changed since the beginning of time. My dad and his buddies were hunting feral hogs throughout Florida and up into Georgia back in the 50’s it’s seems they would have had just as explosive numbers back then. Or did they just have more wild places to inhabit back then and less people to encounter them.

They have been around since the sixteen hundreds in my area and real men used to do hog drives to market with dogs just like cattle drives.


People hunted more and ate more wild game too, then cattle became a thang.

When I read the stories and accounts of how they used to round up these feral hogs to drive to market out of this rough country even as late as the 1800’s and early 1900’s, I realized men ain’t da same no mo.

So for many of you immigrants, these hogs have been in America longer than your forefathers. That makes them more American than most of you.

I wonder how they did that

No feral hogs in Iowa. We have deer. We don't need the feral hogs. I just got a call from my renter a couple of days ago. He took a hit on his corn in one of my fields. It's time to go deer hunting.

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I remember reading that once their population reached a critical point they explode population-wise.

One theory had it that screwworm helped keep feral hogs in check in Texas.

Certainly wouldn't mind teaming up with Hannah Barron to address the wild porker population.

Makes sense. screw worms were nasty.

They mulitply like rats.

Time the sow has offspring #2. Bunch #1 is making more.


Seems i read or heard somewhere you gotta kill 80% to keep the population stable…

Can't speak for other places but a lot of the guys running them with dogs and catching them live were responsible for at least some of their spread here. They were catching them and releasing them on multiple peoples land. Then when some poor farmer starts having a hog problem guess who shows up claiming they can help do something about it. Yep, the same SOB's that dumped them out there in the first place. You only have to dump a few pairs of male and females out on a place and within 5 years that person is going to start having a serious problem. The sows can have 2 liters a year with up to 10 or 12 per liter. The females of each liter are sexually mature when they reach 6 months of age. People eventually got wise to what some of these hog hunters were doing and a law was passed here making it illegal to bring hogs out of the woods alive. But sadly that was like closing the gap after the cows were all out.

You never added Mexican to your list

He wasn’t a big one but did my best to help you Texans out

The sows drop a litter in 3 months, 3 weeks and a few days according to one of the guys here on the fire from Oklahoma. My nephews live outside of Austin and one of these days I’m going down to hunt hogs. Talk to the Pastor at their weddings and he hunts deer but not hogs! And he’s a native Texan. Too busy tending his own flock.

Oh, don't sell yourself short. You are off the charts for both arrogant and stupid.

Never said it was the "top of our tax problem". But I know first hand that lots of tax dollars are spent to control them.

Them federals all need to go..... by any means necessary.

Its you that is naive son, “lots” of tax dollars compared to freebies for illegals or Ukraine for example.

The fact is they could eradicate them pretty quick if they wanted too.

I'm not your son, MF'r. Thank God.

But with every post you show your ignorance with a vengeance.