Hog

[vmaster59]

Hi,this is from the other night. One of five.



Clint

[Palegroe]

Nice big hog congrates.

[golfertrout]

nice one

[GunDog]

Congrats there on the big porker Clint ..... 

[Hawks Feather]

Nice looking hog.  How bad has the hog population become around where you got this one?  Ohio is just getting started with them.

Jerry

[alscalls]

 

[SCcoyotehunter]

Great Hog, and Welcome!!!!

[iahntr]

Nice pig ! 

[vmaster59]

Nice looking hog.  How bad has the hog population become around where you got this one?  Ohio is just getting started with them.

Jerry

They are a lot of them here.

Clint

[vmaster59]

We were calling at night on this one ranch. The rancher call me and was telling me about all the hogs that was giving him problems. They were coming up to the barn and eating the feed and tearing things up. I had the FoxPro running with the piglet crying. And each stand produce hogs. And four coyotes.

Clint

[Silencer]

thats good one, I love me some bacon

[JohnP]

Welcome aboard vmaster59.  We have a very small population out here and Game & Fish is trying to eliminate them as fast as possible.  Very destructive creatures and also very bad for our wildlife.  I have killed a fairly decent number while living in Germany, most at night and all in the farmers corn field. 

[nastygunz]

Woman's Car Hit By Escaped Boar On I-89

Officials Say Boar Likely Escaped From Private Reserve
POSTED: 10:57 am EST November 4, 2009


NEW LONDON, N.H. -- New Hampshire wildlife officials said a boar that ran into the side of a woman's car on Interstate 89 in New London most likely escaped from a private game preserve.

Becky Field said she didn't realize her car had been hit by a boar until a state trooper told her after her vehicle was damaged on Sunday night.

Fish and Game Department wildlife chief Steve Weber said boar are not native to New Hampshire, but they are stocked at the 24,000-acre Blue Mountain Forest and Game Preserve, based in Croydon, two towns away from New London.

He said most boar sightings are animals that have escaped from the preserve.

Weber told the Concord Monitor there's little danger the boars will expand into a wild population.( )

[nastygunz]

By Anne Baker, Boston Globe Correspondent

Lancaster commuters got a startling sight on their trip to work: a view of what is believed to be a Russian wild boar.

A state trooper spotted the 200-pound animal lying alongside Route 2 in Lancaster around 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, said David Procopio, a spokesman for the State Police. Procopio said the reddish-brown boar was so large that the trooper initially thought it was a baby moose.

The trooper discovered the animal was badly injured, likely because it had been hit by a car, Procopio said. The trooper called for back-up. Authorities then redirected traffic and put the animal down, largely out of concern that it could wander into traffic and cause an accident, but also because the animal appeared to be in pain.

Chet Hall, a farmer in Royalston, arrived to claim the animal to use to bait coyotes, which he aggressively hunts. He identified the animal as a Russian wild boar because of its cinnamon-colored collar and rodent-like snout.

“It looked like a combination of a wild pig and a grizzly bear,” he said.

Hall said it was obvious to him that the animal was wild because of the condition of its tusks and feet. He said they are extremely aggressive animals and are hard to contain.

“This an animal with an attitude that most people wouldn’t even go near here,” he said.

Hall said he will not waste the animal and plans to make boar steaks and sausage.

Lisa Capone, spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife, confirmed that the animal was a wild boar. The animal likely escaped from a game farm because Massachusetts does not have a native, free-roaming wild boar population, she said.
Wild boars are considered exotic wildlife in the Commonwealth and require a permit, she said.

“It’s not at all likely we would issue a permit for a wild boar because it’s not an animal we’d want to escape,” she said.

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