Americans have been bringing over Russian hogs to increase the size for hunting purposes so it’s not just those original six and plenty of domesticated hogs have gotten loose and turned feral as well.
William Randolf Hearst released pigs to hunt near his Castle near San Simeon, and they bred with the local wild boar. So now you have these weird looking boar/pig hybrids running wild in Monterrey county.
Amen to that brother haha not only lechon tho, it could be adobo, crispy pata, sinigang baboy, and all other recipies for cooking pig in the Philippines
@@viracocha I find some of then funny when people post this stuff. People always bitch like oh you stole that comment of this and that but I hadn't seen it and enjoyed it. So stfu you clown.
We have a feral pig problem in my state MO. If you read our hunting rules book that says what is in season when and what permits ya need. It says to shoot them on sight in every season.
@@jefferybrown6473 Whole roast pig would remain cheap but bacon has to be cured with salt, sugar, spices and or herbs. Low quality bacon is cheap in my experience. That is why they serve it by the slice. Also, some ammunition is quite expensive. I know it wouldn't be safe but if you already have a Rambo™knife ya could do that tie it to a stick thing John Rambo did. He seemed to enjoy the kill almost as much as the hunt but he didn't have time to make bacon. How much is the experience of dispatching, cleaning, making a fire then cook in and eating that porcine morsel just so you could keep up your strength up enough to command some respect from that POS town constable worth ? I claim it is priceless. Thanx for your question, as I do love practicing the PooTube art of the written rant.
The conservation department can inform you what parasites infect the feral pigs in your area. I'm sure there are some safe ways to prepare boar starting with how one does the butchering. The Conservation Department may have some guidelines for that as well. I do not know much of anything about dressing wild hog, but I was told to bury the offal and drain the blood in the field. I also think that our feral pig population eats safer food than our farmed pigs did in the 19th century when they were given slop containing everything the farmer needed to get rid of including other dead and diseased animals from the farm. The wild ones root for, well, roots and insects. I'm sure they eat carrion to. Again, Conservation Department in your state will explain what I got wrong just now. On another note. Our short pamphlet version just said shoot them on site. It didn't recommend much more than gutting them and burying the offal to prevent the corpse from bloating and popping. Thanx for your time
When I was a teenager, there was a guy who had a Wolf-German Shepherd hybrid that he would use to hunt wild bore on his property. Those Bore didn't stand a chance against it. He called it Fred.
Lenai needs to begin having evening Luaus for tourists serving deer and poo poo platters. That will take care of the deer problem. Have evening boat excursions from Maui for tiki torches, booze and BBQ Bambi.
i swear forrest Galante is my favourit guest you have on the show by far, and thats comming from someone that has watchind pretty much every episode of JRE. The enthusiasm they both have for animals and wildlife is amazing and feed of eachother extremely well. i would invite Forrest atleast once a year to stay updated with his adventures and findings, im mesmerized everytime and have watched both the podcasts with him numerous times.
I was always told most of the feral pigs in the south were from when pork prices crashed and farmers just let their pigs go. I do know domestic pigs will go feral very quickly.
They literally had this exact conversation almost word for word the last time he was on. Its fucking weird. As soon as this clip came on I instantly thought it was from the old podcast.
I can't believe he didn't bring up the woman near Galveston Tx killed in her driveway about a month ago, older woman, fell and a group mauled her. I didn't hear if she tried to shoo them beforehand. Not in Gal, but across the bay. Could see Galv. from there.
Feral pigs are a nightmare here in Central Texas. I have a friend who owns property with a small lake on it which I fish in. Everything was great for months but one day I drove out there and the whole tank was destroyed by feral hogs. It looked like someone took a back hoe to it. Now it is a churned up, mud bog where you absolutely cannot fish in it. You have to see the damage they do with your own eyes to grasp how bad they are
I live in a very small country with little wildlife, once I was trekking in a mountain forest and stumbled on a giant square of ground that was a good 18" lower than everything else, dirt and mud I was "don't tell me they are going to put a large building in the middle of nature ?" but nope it was boars they leveled half a soccer field of ground, insane destruction looked like man made with machines work
There are tons of wild hogs here in Texas. A friend lives in a suburb in N. San Antonio Tx. And at night they tear up his lawn. Just A couple a weeks ago a lady walking her dog in the evening and was attacked and mauled to death, her dog was able to run away...just sad!
Cameron Blackwell -Here in Texas each county with bad feral hog problems actually pay you to kill the pigs. I think most counties will pay $15 per animal. You’ve got to save the head to show proof to get the payment. There is no official pig hunting season-they allow you to hunt the pigs all year round and you don’t have to tag them like you have to with deer. They just want people to kill as many as possible. It’s pretty much open season and all-out war on the pig nuisance in Texas. The problem is a lot worse in the southern parts of the state but they are moving northward very fast. I hear they already have issues in Oklahoma and some have even been spotted in the southern most counties in Colorado. They are super-good to eat! Wild pork is a lot more “gamier” tasting than domestic pork. There is a really good BBQ restaurant in Austin that specializes in wild pork and they are fucking INCREDIBLE!!!! 😋I totally forgot the name of the place though.
Mother nature is striking back. We think we just kill everything to solve our problems. Not gonna work by human intervention. We need to bring back the natural predators. Humans are. Not natural predators.
coyotes is interesting, are they a huge problem up there? I know they fuck with livestock and pets but they aren't some invasive species destroying ecosystems like hogs. I know in TX you have to have a license unless they're attacking livestock or pets or people.
Coyotes used to be limited entirely to the western states, mostly by wolves. but decimation of the wolf population by European settlement opened the gates, & coyotes are now in every state in the lower 48. Numerous states have continuous open season on them, with zero limits on bag numbers or shooting hours, & many allow night vision technology use as well.
My dad was a wildlife manager on a huge ranch in Texas and I grew up with wildlife biologists game wardens and hunters and I remember this one fact that one sow pig will in her lifetime with no mortality for offspring theoretically have one million descendants in her lifetime
We've had pigs here in New York since the 80s. I remember I was working on a farm, I was out on the four wheeler and I saw several in the woods. Farmer I worked for said they'd been there since the 80s.
Here in arkansas pigs are rapidly growing in populations! and our game and fish commision are idiots with their rules on hunting them,, trapping etc! my only opposition is states that poison them, like snares its gonna kill other animals.
outdoors 1221 why do they have rules AGAINST killing wild hogs? They literally provide NOTHING to the local environment. They are not supposed to exist on this continent.
@@spartan1010101 Our game and bias suck! They charge you for a license and supposed to cover building and maintaining food plots in wildlife management areas, that basically is all public land. They rarely maintain anymore and they treat hogs like game! Their as you said a huge problem killing egg layers, small game, small deer etc. So get caught not on private land $$$ tickets or worse. Now bow only in November and December only or in short gun season.
outdoors 1221 I can understand the license and stuff, you really don’t want random people with firearms wandering on public lands firing at whatever. However restricting HOG hunting is highly irresponsible, they reproduce multiple times in a year. The only reason I would they they would do it is to let hunters go when the hogs are less aggressive so hunters aren’t hurt. Idk much about hunting hogs tho so they might not have cycles of aggression at all. On another note, public lands DO need to be maintained because an unprotected and unrestricted resource will 100% be abused by people. If they aren’t maintaining it though then again, it’s on them if “poaching” increases and their budget takes a hit.
@@spartan1010101 I know, we have all been raising he'll over it. I don't mind paying for my license but they make more b.s. rules like this 1 and do less conservation work, but raise the fines and harass you more than treat you like innocent until proven guilty.
It’s so true! My family has a home on Lanai and my uncle just uses it as a hunting homestead so he can go over there get his meat and fly back to Maui or Oahu :)
Sailors used to drop a few pigs off on an Island, and leave them there to breed for a couple of months until they needed to come back later and stock up on food.
That’s not entirely stupid 😅 dangerous if you get caught with your chamber smoking sure but an island of food would be important especially the protein from working like a sea-dog all day.
It's a shame the guest didn't bring up the African Giant forest Hog. Imagine 600 pounds of monstrous bush pig that can contend with the likes of hyenas and other apex predators.
@@canunlu1879 Well if you want to get specific the Giant Forest Hog is actually 3 feet 7 inches at the shoulder making the largest subspecies of this animal taller than that of both the Mckenzie Valley Timber Wolf (the largest subspecies of wolf) and the Spotted Hyena by a margin of 7 inches. Moreover, It's length can exceed 7 feet if you include the tail (6 '11 without it) making its proportions exceptionally large for anything from the family Suidae. They've even been documented running off lone spotted hyenas and moderately sized leopards which is also nothing to scoff at. Pair these facts with the notion that their tusks can exceed a foot in length and you have something that I would call a "monstrous bush pig." I'm not hyping up the animal in the slightest 😂
liam wilkins well the day we find one as big as a cow I will be impressed, it’s just like anything I remember the first time I saw a horse in person it was huge, way bigger than I thought they were (I was young btw)
Where I grew up in Andrews NC there was a guy right outside town had a bunch of Russian boars....well they somehow escaped, back in the late 60's....wouldn't know how many there are now....
The tumbleweed also came from Russia. There was that exotic snake farm in Florida that was hit by a hurricane, letting all the snakes escape and now over time snakes are killing everything, including the gators or crocs.
In California and a few other states wild Boar from Germany were released for hunting purposes, they have over the last hundred years bred with feral pigs both the original Spanish stock plus more recent stock that have escaped from farms into the wild, as a result we have some of the largest most viscous, dangerous wild pigs to be found anywhere in the world!
I live in South Carolina too. My friend's old preacher used to have a motion sensor camera and he would pick them off every time they got in his yard. The man had enough meat to open a barbecue restaurant LOL
@@Mossy500A I'm sure there are some already in the Columbia area, just not right in town yet. I live in the Upstate and they are up here. It's open season as far as I know.
I used to Pig hunt in central coastal area of California. They are challenging and ferocious ! We used bows and arrows but kept a 357 just in case. They are tough and unpredictable. And they are delicious.
Wild pigs are expanding in Canada like crazy! Especially the prairie provinces Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. There’s also wild pigs in Ontario British Columbia and I think Quebec
Blake Mosher in general but there’s none in the maritimes or territories so no. New Brunswick PEI Nova Scotia Newfoundland and Labrador the Yukon Northwest Territories and Nunavut is more of Canada than what I mentioned.
I'm almost positive Christopher Columbus never made it to mainland America, all three of his trips where to the Bahamas and around Puerto Rico if I'm not mistaken.
Humans get rid of all the predators in an area, then cry about pigs and deer breeding unchecked. If you're going to remove the predators, you have to step up the hunting to fill the gap adequately.
Whats insane is they think all these wild hogs came from the first 6! They go feral very fast and they used to be free ranged in the south. They are also not expanding naturally. They are being hauled and dumped by people wanting to hunt them in that area.
its really intresting how they cause so much damage when they're invasive, as in here in sweden where they live naturally we dont really have a problem with them. Like we hunt them ofcourse but not the the extent you seem to in the states. Im a big outdoor guy myself, and you rarely actuall come across a ''problem area''
Because other species balance the issue. Wolves, perhaps? Look at rabbits in Australia or rats in New Zealand. Evolution did not have time to develop balancing predators.
@EnGage With Nature - Enter the vegan. So now u have a problem with golf courses as well? It’s a green space in urban areas that is protected by all the wealthy ppl who pay to keep it there. Vegans are the worst...
Pigs have been escaping and turning wild for hundreds of years. the wild pigs don’t all come if any that are alive today still come from conquistadors.
People are invasive. Communities of people will come together and declare that a species is invasive when the species has actually been there for 10x longer than the people xD
@@40kBookSummaries I respect your point of view. But a person who knows the difference is expecting an infinitive verb form construction. So when "to" is followed by an adjective instead, we have to slow down to correct for the mistake. It's similar to a bad driver who forces you take evasive action to compensate for their driving error, (except there is no risk of a crash).
Christopher Columbus never visited Florida, much less dropped off pigs. In 1521 Ponce De Leon may have introduced cattle and pigs with his abortive short term settlement near Fort Myers. The Calusa Indians overran his settlement and he and his settlers escaped on two ships. Ponce was hit in his thign by a fishhead arrow and died from infection. The pigs were most likely completely the result of Hernando De Soto who brought a heard of pigs as an emergency food supply in 1539. His expedition crossed back and forth the Southern US for 4 years. Pigs were given as gifts to Indian Leaders, stolen, and wandered off. His herd was 600 strong when he died in 1542. While he was alive only once did he allow his men to eat the pigs as they were lost in the forrests of South Carolina facing starvation. When he died his pigs were actioned off for promissory notes and eaten by his ragged men, half of whom had died.
No feral pigs were in the US till 1539, 33 years after Christopher Columbus died, Also Columbus never made it to Florida or the current USA, he did bring them to the West Indies. But Fernando De Soto brought them to Florida. As a fellow biologist, Forest is pretty awesome though.
