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Market hunters will never be able to wipe out feral pigs (and it is a real shame they can't) First of all Pigs begin breeding at 8 months of age, gestation is 112-114 days, and the litters run from 6-18 in feral pigs (although litters above 12 do not have a good survival rate) The Texas Parks and Wildlife announced last hunting season that they believe the feral pig population in Texas alone is growing by about 60000 (yes thats sixty THOUSAND) a year.
Tell me how market hunters are going to keep up with that? Two days ago I saw 6 full grown sows surrounded by more than sixty piglets that looked to be 2-3 months old. By deer season they will have bred, and by February 2/3s of them will have had liters of 6-18!
You want to throw buffalo in there because of it? We are not talking about a native breed wiped out by the US government to starve native people! We are talking about a wildlife catastrophe CREATED by the government from the time they started using scare tactics about pig disease in the 80s until the time they banished selling the meat! Now most ranchers pay people to come shoot the pigs and roll them into a ditch because the meat can't be sold, you can only eat so much pork, and Hunter's for the Hungry won't take pork in case it offends the PC crowd!
You know whats black and white? Hay and vegetable prices in east Texas because of the crops that have been destroyed by feral pigs, THAT'S whats black and white. Even attacks on people by pigs have gone through the roof in the last few years. The autobody shops around are seeing record numbers of pig destroyed cars (yea destroyed you hit a pig and you aint pullin that dent out!)
Ill post some links later
GoodOlBoy
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