Wild hogs

grogimus said:
I grew up raising pigs. The only time I missed school was because I was out in the farrowing pens with the sows all hours. For some reason they seemed to have an aversion to having babies on a shiny, happy day or during daylight hours. Pigs are still pigs though. I was taught from the get go that if you fall down in a hog pen you could be dinner.

When I got to a sow too late and she'd already farrowed there were plenty of times that a well handled, named pig with documented generations of good motherhood had already eaten her own babies. They're smart, creative animals but they can be cruel and vicious also. My pigs were more pets than my dogs were but I also knew that they'd eat me if they got the chance. Fortunately, I knew that if I raised them right, there would be bacon at the end of the process.

Oh, and pigs will happily eat their own shit so they will certainly eat something truly disgusting and unsanitary. Different strokes for different species I guess.
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You sound like a man who's seen a few things
 
grogimus said:
I grew up raising pigs. The only time I missed school was because I was out in the farrowing pens with the sows all hours. For some reason they seemed to have an aversion to having babies on a shiny, happy day or during daylight hours. Pigs are still pigs though. I was taught from the get go that if you fall down in a hog pen you could be dinner.

When I got to a sow too late and she'd already farrowed there were plenty of times that a well handled, named pig with documented generations of good motherhood had already eaten her own babies. They're smart, creative animals but they can be cruel and vicious also. My pigs were more pets than my dogs were but I also knew that they'd eat me if they got the chance. Fortunately, I knew that if I raised them right, there would be bacon at the end of the process.

Oh, and pigs will happily eat their own shit so they will certainly eat something truly disgusting and unsanitary. Different strokes for different species I guess.
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Eaton ones own shit is disgusting, but not unsanitary. If you poop out E. coli, it’s because you’re already infected. I’ve seen dogs eat cat shit without any harm done. Geez, maybe Muslims are right about dogs and pigs.
 
I didn't know they would eat their own... Now I get why they have video cameras in the barns- that's to get the babies before they become snacks :eek::eek::eek: ~ guess they like bacon too :confused:

Yeah there's a whole lot of things about animals that will never all fit in a twit box- I'm feeling like, it's ok not to know some things cause you might not like the truth LOLOLO!!!
 
Currawong said:
You sound like a man who's seen a few things
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Pigs are awfully interesting creatures.
Yonose said:
Eaton ones own shit is disgusting, but not unsanitary. If you poop out E. coli, it’s because you’re already infected. I’ve seen dogs eat cat shit without any harm done. Geez, maybe Muslims are right about dogs and pigs.
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It's horribly unsanitary. The body, pig or otherwise, rids itself of bad shit with.. well... shit. Animals eating it from time to time doesn't make it a healthy option.

Leonardo63 said:
I didn't know they would eat their own... Now I get why they have video cameras in the barns- that's to get the babies before they become snacks :eek::eek::eek: ~ guess they like bacon too :confused:

Yeah there's a whole lot of things about animals that will never all fit in a twit box- I'm feeling like, it's ok not to know some things cause you might not like the truth LOLOLO!!!
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Pigs can be bastards but I have never seen anything in my life as cute as a newborn pig cleaned and wiped up and nursing on mama. Like all of Ma Nature's gifts they just need a bit of care when dealing with them.
 
Pigs will consume each and every thing they can, they are not fussy in the slightest (it is what makes them as a species so resilient - along with breeding easily, early and in numbers). They are true scavengers and I happily go back and shoot more hogs off the rotting carcasses of the ones I shot days earlier.... this more so in the dry poor country out west.

Every animal can carry a disease, you lower the odds of this from GOOD farming practices. The wild is just that, wild.
 
I would add that I am not a farmer, but I frequent many of them (all are grass fed) and family had a little place (200K acres) back till I was in my early 20s. This is again understanding just what the discussion is....not that every pig will carry a disease, or even if they do you will catch you from EATING, so are transferred by contact with blood or parasites that frequent the carcass, it can also be exposure to specific organs and fluids from game (such as in the case of Q Fever) or other stock. There are simply NO absolutes to this. I CHOOSE not to eat wild hog out here, that is two fold, the disease risks and simply I mostly am not a bog pork fan (backon being the ABSOLUTE exception to that), have I and will I eat wild hog again....certainly, do I do it with a firm understanding, sure do.
 
From a few years ago now...

Shot this at dark....



About 36hrs later...



Shot this about 200yds away after it was munching on the ribs but got chased off by an eagle....



And a few years later....I shot this one in almost exactly the same spot...



And an old old pic (early 90s I think) out on the family Station in SW Queensland..

 
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Andy the Aussie said:
From a few years ago now...

Shot this at dark....



About 36hrs later...



Shot this about 200yds away after it was munching on the ribs but got chased off by an eagle....



And a few years later....I shot this one in almost exactly the same spot...



And an old old pic (early 90s I think) out on the family Station in SW Queensland..

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That's a beautiful gun, L1A1?, your govt sux in that regard.
 
Andy the Aussie said:
I would add that I am not a farmer, but I frequent many of them (all are grass fed) and family had a little place (200K acres) back till I was in my early 20s. This is again understanding just what the discussion is....not that every pig will carry a disease, or even if they do you will catch you from EATING, so are transferred by contact with blood or parasites that frequent the carcass, it can also be exposure to specific organs and fluids from game (such as in the case of Q Fever) or other stock. There are simply NO absolutes to this. I CHOOSE not to eat wild hog out here, that is two fold, the disease risks and simply I mostly am not a bog pork fan (backon being the ABSOLUTE exception to that), have I and will I eat wild hog again....certainly, do I do it with a firm understanding, sure do.
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You are lucky to have had access to what you call a little farm, 200k acres is enough to get lost in for days!!! I haven’t been able to hunt since ai was aboit 20, and back then a 30.06 was my lonrange rifle or praire rifle while the 30-30 was for wooded areas, never got to hunt with an ar, but I’ve seen ones built specifically for hog hunting and they look cool as hell: imguesnthe number of rounds, especially if designed for hog, would decimate multiple boars from a nice distance. In the states a mere 1% of what you had access to is considered huge! I suppose you could eat whatever the hell you chose!
 
200K is "smallish" when you consider Australian Cattle stations.... eg Anna Creek is about 5.5 million acres, (it's No 1) and Elsey was about 1.3 million...(it is No 50 size wise), some of these have moved around as they have broken up a few. In the country I am from (East Coast) 5-20K acres is more common. The two places I hunt most now are 20 and 50K respectively. Less than 500 or so is considered Hobby Farming for the most part.
 
I was just watching an old video of my mates when he was out solo hunting down this way. He got an adult sow with fair size tusks, said he'd never seen it before. Have you ever seen anything like that?
 
Pic related. She was definitely a sow, he checked it.

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