Simo wrote:
Hi Chilli,
You can still have cheap fresh pork (esp living in the hills) with out having to raise pigs in you back yard. There are thousands of wild boars out there in the bush just waiting to be caught.
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Hunting pigs is good for the environment as they destroy native vegetation and out compete or even eat many native fauna.
It is a great form of exercise (I don't hunt atm because I am so unfit) for you and the dogs
Bonus is free meat for you and the dogs (makes dog ownership more environmentally friendly/carbon neutral)
Wild boar may not be the fatty type of pork you are after and you have to mind for parasites but the price is good and it is considered a delicacy in Europe.
The wild boars are nasty fouled by their glands. The meat even stinks up the house while cooking it. The sows on the other hand are very good. Young boars If your up to it can be cut... then purged on corn for a couple months
As bad as it sounds we cull the boars and drag them to a pit and lime them. A sow will have about 4 litters a year and about 4-8 piglets per litter and raise most of them because a sow is a very protective mom. It doesn't take long before they take over an area. I understand they are even moving into urban houston killing dogs and cats and distroying peoples flowerbeds. I understand They are hunting them out of helicopters over there to get numbers down. But like Simo I encourage people to hunt them to help native wildlife compete. Catch dogs are best way to hunt them because they go nocternal as soon as a little hunting pressure begins.