Ohio Does The Worst Possible Thing To Stop The Feral Hog Invasion
BY Herschel Smith
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Ohio’s House of Representatives has unanimously passed House Bill 503, a critical piece of legislation aimed at controlling the population and movement of feral swine within the state. The bill, strongly supported by the Ohio Pork Council (OPC) and other agricultural groups, targets the importation, hunting, and feeding practices of these wild pigs to protect the state’s livestock industry.
House Bill 503 addresses key issues related to the management of feral swine, including prohibiting their importation and hunting, and outlawing the feeding of pigs with garbage.
That’s right. The best way to stop the invasion is to prohibit the hunting of feral hogs. They didn’t ban hunting over feeders or raising feral hogs in preserves, they outright banned hunting them.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
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On July 1, 2024 at 3:31 am, WiscoDave said:
What invasion?
https://x.com/i/status/1807527689458430005
On July 1, 2024 at 4:55 am, jrg said:
That makes no sense at all. Are they planning on trapping them professionally, or poisoning them with dropped baits as Texas did some years back during a coyote rabies outbreak ? I can’t remember the results of the dropped poison had, as it is hard to document dead animals in the wild that die and are consumed by Mother Nature.
On July 1, 2024 at 7:40 am, Chumlee said:
I hate the use of poison; the amount needed to kill large mammals easily gets into the cycle & other small mammals, birds, reptiles, & waterways are exposed to it.
Better to use bait & traps, but the things breed worse than rabbits, so anything other than eradication is the wrong way to go.
On July 1, 2024 at 5:19 pm, JG said:
Without knowing the committee discussions and rationale for specifically why the bill prohibits hunting, I am still keeping an open mind. The bill appears to focus on prohibiting the introduction of feral hogs into the state, as specified in proposed new section 1533.75, Ohio Revised Code (O.R.C.). Another new section, 1533.751, explicitly authorizes the landowner or his agent to kill any feral hog on his property–no hunting license required. A charitable interpretation could be that the prohibition on *hunting* feral hogs is intended to avoid creating *incentives* for unscrupulous people to introduce more of them into the state. It could also prevent creation of a constituency of hog hunters whose interest would be in *mantaining* a population of hogs that they can hunt year to year, instead of eradicating them if possible. Admittedly this is just conjecture on my part.
On July 1, 2024 at 6:09 pm, PGF said:
They should have banned canned hunts and for-profit hunting.
On July 3, 2024 at 5:15 pm, Chris Mallory said:
They are trying to ban the hunting in KY too. Currently hogs are not protected and the only limits on hunting them is during deer season. No limit, no tags, no season. But the “experts” are saying hunting trains the hogs to be more wary and change their feeding habits.
On July 3, 2024 at 5:18 pm, Chris Mallory said:
With the trapping of hogs, current KY is that a feral hog may not be transported while alive. So if you trap one you must put it down before opening the trap.