Feral Hogs in Canada (and the Northern U.S.)
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 11 months ago
I say parenthetically and the Northern U.S. because an imaginary boundary line won’t stop them.
You know they’re already in the Northern states. See, you thought that hogs were a Southern problem, an issue only Georgia, Texas, S.C., Mississippi and Louisiana had to deal with.
You’d be wrong about that. They reproduce faster than lethal removal can take them out, they’ll adapt to their surroundings, they’ll dig up the ecosystem to the point it looks like a rototiller came through, they’ll kill indigenous game, and they’ll come after humans too.
If you live up there, get your rifles ready. Oh, Canada won’t let you have those. Too bad. If you live in the rest of the U.S., get your rifles ready.
That goes for Alaska too. There aren’t enough bears to kill them all.
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On January 24, 2023 at 11:36 pm, Frank Clarke said:
Florida has no closed season and no bag limit. You can shoot until you run out of ammunition. Feral hogs are still a problem.
On January 25, 2023 at 5:18 am, jrg said:
The one saving grace I see from this news is that hunting / controlling feral hog will put meat in the freezers in this time of high cost – low availability of pork products. No closed season nor are methods of hunting (can even be live trapped) closed off. For people of limited funds, this news may be welcome.
On January 25, 2023 at 6:43 am, Chris said:
After several decades, the fishers here have made a tremendous comeback. I’ve noticed less wild turkeys in my area as well. I put fishers in the same group as feral hogs and coyote.
CIII
On January 25, 2023 at 7:58 am, Latigo Morgan said:
Hogs will be culled soon, as will every other game animal that was almost made extinct during the last Great Depression.
On January 25, 2023 at 8:38 am, PGF said:
Yep, God always provides. The hogs will probably be needed soon enough.
On January 25, 2023 at 1:31 pm, Dov said:
What always kept them out of northern Maine was mostly the deep snow, which we haven’t had for the last few years. Those tiny little bones in the ham just don’t do well in the kind of snow we have. I wonder if that will now change now that the weather pattern has
The other thing that keeps them out of northern Maine is poor, but very good hunters. If there is no bag limit, they will disappear into everyone’s freezer. It would be very nice not to have to raise pigs but instead hunt them wild.
On January 28, 2023 at 6:57 pm, TheAlaskan said:
We have hog farms up here…year round. But I think feral hogs have a tough go at it in winter. Ground freezes solid a foot or more down and their lack of insulation would make surviving sub-zero conditions iffy.
I have no doubts though, that they’d survive, thrive even, in the banana belt (southeast) of Alaska.
Kodiak too, and the chain.