Canadian Super Pigs Invade USA

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A hybrid breed of super pigs—a mix of a domestic pig and a wild boar—is running wild in Canada. And now they have their sights set on the United States.

Originally crossbred to help farmed pigs grow larger and tolerate the cold temperatures of Canada, a drop in the market about two decades ago led some farmers to let their hybrid pigs run free. Now they’re running very free, according to Field and Stream. The super pigs are coming south, likely heading to Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and Michigan.

The problem? The super pigs are proving hard to eradicate.

as if regular pigs weren't worrisome enough.
for those who haven't heard; feral pigs are a big problem in many areas in the USA, especially the warmer ones. They are edging into urban areas.
now we have even worse pigs.
(apparently they don't taste very good so they're not a desirable hunting target, though they are hunted in many places)

Canadian bacon has always been deadly, but even more so are Austrailian razorbacks.

On a serious note.

The AR-15 with hicapacity magazines equipped with thermal nightvision works wonders to get rid of invasive species, and your saving the planet to boot.

a reply to: neo96

Not in .556 they don’t
It’s little more than a hot .22
AR-10 in .308 is the ticket…
I have an old model 70 that is great for reaching out and touching things.
Now that’s a porking gun.

a reply to: PiratesCut

People just love to effing argue.

It's the same god damn platform.

a reply to: ElGoobero

The Northern Woolly Pig is surely a site to behold.

We use them to haul sleds around...

Seriously though, I've never heard of these, lol, but I'll never argue about MORE bacon.

We had some feral pigs doing damage in the next county over. The locals used some kind of pit trap to take them out. Even though these pigs were only some ten miles away, they never made it here that I know of. Coyotes and bears are the nuisance animals around here for the most part.

To bad they are moving south not north. I wouldn’t mind some hog hunting.

They say they don’t taste so good but i bet they would make great dog food. Lots of people where I live still practice dog sledding some people keep kennels with 20-50 dog sled dogs. They use lots of different food sources to offset the cost.

When I was a teenager we would save all of burbot we would catch while ice fishing over the season. Tossing them into a Rubbermaid tote to freeze. Once we had a full tote aka a giant frozen cube of fish we would sell it to trapper/musher for use a dog food.
a reply to: MykeNukem

a reply to: ElGoobero

That article is reaching.
The writer anthropomorphizing pigs like that is a bit much.


I'm sure the locals with be happy to fill their freezers.
At least they don't need special permission to lighten the load.

originally posted by: Athetos
To bad they are moving south not north. I wouldn’t mind some hog hunting.

They say they don’t taste so good but i bet they would make great dog food. Lots of people where I live still practice dog sledding some people keep kennels with 20-50 dog sled dogs. They use lots of different food sources to offset the cost.

When I was a teenager we would save all of burbot we would catch while ice fishing over the season. Tossing them into a Rubbermaid tote to freeze. Once we had a full tote aka a giant frozen cube of fish we would sell it to trapper/musher for use a dog food.
a reply to: MykeNukem

Our climate is too cold where I am, but I guess they are expanding down into the south.

I'd love to do some hog hunting.

Same boat around here, bear, coyotes, elk, deer, moose, but no hogs..

Yea that fish is life and death to those guys. I've talked to people who had to eat the dog food fish before to survive, saved their ass.

You can kill 1/2 the population and still not decrease it. Pigs breed like crazy... oh BTW 300 BK....

a reply to: ElGoobero

mix of a domestic pig and a wild boar

LOL

Ok. Who's the genius that wrote this article?

I don't even know where to start - this is just too damn funny!

a reply to: Athetos

I’d much rather have Coyotes or bears, pigs are nasty and mean. Plus they dig up and ruin fences, crops, etc etc.

My buddy was seeing if it were feasible to use feral hog meat for dog food, (waste not). However his dogs wouldn’t touch the feral pig meat.

I didn't know there were wild boar in Russia

back in the day some of them were brought to the USA

I think these are part of the Superpig's genetics

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