Fear mongering deluxe. The feral pig of North America is a cross between the Russian “boar’ and the domestic pig. The snout is elongated and the back bristles are dense and long. Boars have long tusks that are dangerous when fighting. They have 6-14 piglets and breed at least 2 times a year starting at age 6-8 month so their population explodes exponentially. (If you kill a sow with young piglets, another sow will adopt them.) They are extremely hardy in nearly all climates (thanks to their Siberian ancestors), stealthy living in dense brush during the day and coming out at night to feed, and they are extremely destructive to agricultural fields, especially plowed fields and hay with favored rootstocks mixed in. They use their noses to root up the dirt to the depth of about 6-8” and devour edible crops. As far as “germs”, probably carry as many viruses as the Corona, but they are nearly unstoppable. As I mentioned in an earlier post about them, we have found them with higher caliber bullets lodged in their skulls where people have attempted to kill them. You have to shoot them in the eye, heart, or gut shot and hope they bleed out. This sounds cruel, but when they tear up your dogs, eat the wild turkey/quail/pheasant eggs,ruin your fields, chase you as you walk or ride in a side-by-side, they become the enemy. They are non-natives and while Texans love to hunt them (eye roll) there are all kinds of ideas about how to eliminate them. They are hunted by helicopter in South TX and with specially trained dogs here in Central TX.
It is “fashionable” to serve “wild boar” in upscale restaurants. We usually make sausage with it, as we do venison and other game we harvest here. Of course, the tenderloins in all these animals are favored but that is the smallest part of the animal.
Fear mongering deluxe. The feral pig of North America is a cross between the Russian “boar’ and the domestic pig. The snout is elongated and the back bristles are dense and long. Boars have long tusks that are dangerous when fighting. They have 6-14 piglets and breed at least 2 times a year starting at age 6-8 month so their population explodes exponentially. (If you kill a sow with young piglets, another sow will adopt them.) They are extremely hardy in nearly all climates (thanks to their Siberian ancestors), stealthy living in dense brush during the day and coming out at night to feed, and they are extremely destructive to agricultural fields, especially plowed fields and hay with favored rootstocks mixed in. They use their noses to root up the dirt to the depth of about 6-8” and devour edible crops. As far as “germs”, probably carry as many viruses as the Corona, but they are nearly unstoppable. As I mentioned in an earlier post about them, we have found them with higher caliber bullets lodged in their skulls where people have attempted to kill them. You have to shoot them in the eye, heart, or gut shot and hope they bleed out. This sounds cruel, but when they tear up your dogs, eat the wild turkey/quail/pheasant eggs,ruin your fields, chase you as you walk or ride in a side-by-side, they become the enemy. They are non-natives and while Texans love to hunt them (eye roll) there are all kinds of ideas about how to eliminate them. They are hunted by helicopter in South TX and with specially trained dogs here in Central TX.
So it is more the reverse. A good food source in hard times if one can kill them.
It is “fashionable” to serve “wild boar” in upscale restaurants. We usually make sausage with it, as we do venison and other game we harvest here. Of course, the tenderloins in all these animals are favored but that is the smallest part of the animal.