For the past 5 years, feral hogs are overwhelming America’s Texas farmlands | Nightline
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- The population for feral hogs has grown exponentially and they can be found in at least 35 states. Farmers are fending off the explosive number of feral hogs from destroying their crops.
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Lots of pigs and lots of hungry people. Looks like we could solve a problem lol
A lot of these feral pigs are full of diseases, and since they're not bred to be farmed - like actual pigs - they normally aren't a good food source. Can they be eaten? Yes. Is is a good idea? Not usually...
Boar taint is absolutely disgusting though. We need a way to get rid of it before people will eat these things.
@@mr.nemesis6442 boars could be used as a pet food. Piglets are tasty as f*ck though.
Yeah your Right.
@@mr.nemesis6442 I wonder if soaking the meat in milk helps?
Give the pigs to the zoos to feed carnivores
yeah, killing something and not using the meat is sick - wasteful.
@@genkiferal7178 Should we eat all the rats, snakes, and coyotes we kill? Yes, it's not that great that this needs to be done, but there are times when animals must be disposed of without a ready way of making use of the carcass. And I'm sure many hog cullers do use the bacon.
@@genkiferal7178 hogs have the worst absolute worst parasites and other diseases that could be in its meat , it eats anything and the parasites and certain food doesnt digest, if you ate enough of these pigs you would prob behave and feel like em lmfao
They have diseases
@@genkiferal7178 did you even watch the video and see the problem with this? Or do you have comprehension and math issues?
If pigs are problem, then why is bacon prices $7 a pound?
@@sq6529 they aren't much different
Boars, not domesticated pigs. Swine in general are all carnivores known for eating human corpses.
@@NormieNekohow would know they eat humans 🤨
@@jamesbond1348they don’t know if they are human but they don’t care. They eat anything
Why are they sending this meat overseas?
There is definitely a market for wild hog meat in the United States.
Regular pigs are easier to raise, that's why their meat is cheap. This market for wild hogs would be really small, and the price of the meat would be high in comparisson, due to what it takes to catch them.
because it's cheap.
Boar meat taste very different and mostly bad. Not what you imagining as lean pork
@@Lucas_Tulicwild hog meat is incredibly dangerous to consume. People might get parasites if they keep eating random wild animals.
Mean while the price of bacon went up the past year for some reason
If there is a food shortage coming , the hogs will be a blessing to survive.
the hogs are causing the potential food shortage.
then just eat them instead?
@@shenFen-jf2jkmany hunters do eat them. But you can’t exactly eat an invasive species out of the US when their population is in the millions. Better to say happy huntings and take out as many of the buggers as possible. Also I have tried feral hog before multiple times, it’s always been the most disgusting meat I’ve ever had
@@FoundationRingsTwice It tastes gross because it wasn't properly prepared. You have to cut out the glands first before the meat is tainted, also depends on the breed and what part of the hog is eaten. Usually the younger piglets are less gamey.
Most of y’all don’t cook with seasoning and cook long enough so it’s going to taste gross😂
Looks like the solution to food shortage...
@Logan Foster yeah man, I've had bacon from Whole Foods that had that ammonia taste, the "boar taint" they call it. It was inedible. But for the poors...
wild hogs. wild goats, wild rabbits: chuck a few in countries where people are dying of hunger
You have to castrate them then Mark them and come back for that particular hog or another one that you castrated and marked in a couple months to a year for the meat to be good
@@rp5231 YT didn't like your comment I guess. What you said makes sense though. I didn't know their meat could go back to tasting good past a certain size/age
@@rob6850the price of bacon went up and soon burgers skimp the bacon smh
I hope those hogs will be transferred in the Philippines especially in Mindanao where there population is decreasing due to human consumption. Hogs meat being a meal is called “Baboy Sulop” baboy means pig and it is cooked very deliciously. Hogs in the Philippines are already endangered.
Jollibee has a new dish with wild hog meat too I think. Yummy Jollibee, the chicken joy and the sweet spaghetti!
If only people like to eat feral pigs like they do blue crabs, they'd be under control.
Put a price on them like Florida does pythons in the Everglades.
The problem with Texas is that it has very little public hunting land. Almost everything is private. Almost all of those private properties charge money to hunt on them.
@@marcelojuarez7561 Texas and their land ownership🙄 don't get me wrong, in Florida it's annoying too, the random ranches and reserves that pop up everywhere
@@marcelojuarez7561 Texas land owners can make money organising hunting parties and selling places to citiy dwelling hunters.
That's how farmland owners in Europe make some extra cash while culling the numbers of destructive wild boars.
It includes transport from the main house to the hunting site and a picnic place, sometimes even the picnic food and wine produced in the farm.
It can be also a family entertainment since wives that don't hunt (some also do) stay in the visitors area with the children watching the farm animals and learning about farming, cheese making, etc. Kids love it and it's educational.
It's also a good opportunity to sell whatever is produced in the farm.
If the landowner is not keen on running the business he can rent the land for that purpose during certain periods to a hunting party organising company.
Don't you guys have this over there?
I'd buy that meat if it was the right price. This is the kind of animal that NEEDS to be hunted. Unlike wolves, hogs don't belong here.
Lol
The price is right it's free to hunt and trap them no license or tags you can use spot lights,thermal scopes, and dogs even on public land
@@brandonhouston3683 I heard that the problem with that is that in Texas much of the land is private land and it is difficult to hunt like you mentioned as they charge you for hunting
So we can eradicate bison, but not hogs. They are worried about lowering the price of meat worldwide
Dont eat the meat, just dont. It's disgusting they carry all sorts of diseases and parasites.
They would make great dog and pet food. Sell their meat to zoo's that house lions, tigers and bears oh my...
That’s such a good idea! I wonder if it’s possible…I hope so. It would be amazing to not have their bodies go to waste
@@EvadoCouto to atleast cover the cost of operating the traps and hunts.
Zoo animals are very expensive, specially large predators. These pigs are infested with multiple diseases and parasites.
You don't want a 100k or 200k USD tiger dying of trichinosis.
Also it would be more expensive in transport costs than buying the meat from a local producer near the zoo.
Farm pigs are the fastest animal to go feral. Only takes 3 generations from when they escape to go back to a wild pig.
It's only takes a few months I believe for a domesticated pig to become feral. I believe they also start growing tusks very quickly
@@itwasaliens True. It's the only domesticated animal that returns to its natural state in a few months. In 2/3 generations they become legit boars.
I go to Vernon Texas every year for hog hunting, on average I kill 60 to 70 every time. Last year I came home with 1100lbs of meat, all tenderloin and hams.
What do they taste like? Good eating?
The Pig Brig trap works great, we captured 28 hogs in one setting on the outskirts of Honolulu. The feral pig population is out of control on Oahu.
Hey look we solved the food inflation issue
We don't have a problem with them in my country because we have plenty of predators left.
We learned how to live next to wolves and bears,even if they do damage to live stock.
What country?
@@lioneltholmer4584 Romania.
so instead of hogs destroying a little bit of crops, you have packs of wolves killing your livestock? ill stick the the hogs. livestock is much more expensive than crops
I seen videos of these trigger happy ppl killing boars and wolves cus they can. I guess it our own fault here in the US.
Imagine that. Coexisting with other animals within your habitat.
Maybe Cruz could bring them to Cancun and drop them off next snow storm.
Still triggered
@@lesliemiller6826 not the most intelligent post ever made. Get your affairs in order
@@lesliemiller6826 #fbi
He’s a rethugulin politician, so he doesn’t give a damn about regular peoples problems. He wouldn’t come within 100 yards of those hogs.
It's clearly a problem feral swines, not only too agriculture but too livestock, pets, children, outdoor activities. Evasive species, start off with good intent, but quickly grow beyond the containment. Similar to the snail, Chinese crabs in California. And being their are no natural predators, it's now a human problem. They will drive other wild life out of the areas. So be it, let the hunt begin. Be safe, take care and God speed amen.
The other option would be too bring in natural predators (protected).
Please follow state firearms safety, and regulatory requirements, it's not only a right but a responsibility. 2nd Amendment in America, Texas.
Humans are the invasive species. By the year 2000, the human population doubled from what it was in 1975 - twice the people in only 25 years.
Just like the decreasing population of natives and taking over their land over the centuries. 😂
Invasive species
Chopper hog hunting appears highly inefficient... The traps look better thought out.😂
Except people pay big money to "hunt" hogs from helicopters. I wish I would have years ago before I got so expensive.
it might never get under control.
That's what tigers, lions, and, bears are here for!!!
You need to kill 75% each year just to maintain the population. Your grocery prices are going to go up if the hog issue gets worse.
@@myfavoriteflavor here where
@@nicklespale22 in life
@@myfavoriteflavor No tigers and lions in America. Introducing them would be a huge problem.
I hope they retrieve them for food.
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Yeah, otherwise it's a waste of good meat and money
They aren't good for eating. They're quite nasty. Nothing like a bacon hog at all.
@@sparkysmom7149 Not only that, but a lot of farmers put out poisoned bait for them; laced with arsenic. So it's not recommended to eat feral hogs.
The hogs are the carriers of diseases that can be passed on to humans such as tuberculosis, hepatitis E and influenza A? Tell us that you have no idea what you are talking about without telling us you have no idea what you are talking about?
These boars are violent do not confront them without proper weaponry they can and will gore you if your shot placement is off
and people wonder why you might want an AR. This is exactly why.
There is a plausible solution to the feral hog problems. Catch or euthanize these hogs and sell them to South East Asian countries like the Philipines, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos & Cambodia whose people like to feast on wild boars. To them, wild hogs are a delicacy. You need to centralize the export of such meat (frozen off course) to these countries. In US, once there is a price for selling the wild hoggies, the feral hogs will be reduced !
You should see the pics some people post of the damage to their yards, but we are building in the rural areas in Tx, sooo. Also, humans staying in for a year may have caused an increase in a few more animals.
Idk, maybe its just me, but if you dont like feral hogs, maybe instead of commit species genocide, just dont move where the hogs are?
@@kaydnburns5935 I agree with you. I’m a mortgage loan officer. Most buyers have no idea that feral hogs live in these areas. They only see the area after development. Then when they move in and lay their grass the hogs are like “not on our watch”
@@kaydnburns5935 if they came and infested your yard at destroyed your crops would you pack up and leave? Do you pack up and leave when you get an ant problem in your house?
@@Kvasir-thewise1 Sense im not farming hundreds of acres of land fences work pretty amazingly, especially electric ones. The solution to every problem isnt hunting it until extinction
@@kaydnburns5935 they won't extinct that's for sure
I am more worried about the hog in uniform than these!
"America's Texas Farmlands"?
Nope. Texan's Texas Farmlands
Not to be confused with Chinas Texas farmlands
What quality of meat does a wild hog have?
Game it's okay but if u catch them an keep them on your ranch they will turn into regular pigs
Don't even listen to this guy it's good very good, just like any other game meat you have to know how to prepare it
Cage and corn feed to get better meat
Grown up males have horrible smell and require processing. Females and piglets are tasty as hell.
One of the ways to reduce the number of wild boars, hunting in a helicopter is great
Hogs mix with corn and you get 50% corn raised fish of assorted kinds of marketable fish some grow fast others cost more but take longer to grow up. fish in a hole feed by a sprinkler set on a timer and really what's left but wait til harvest
I don’t understand. This is free range meat. Why are we not cashing in on this? I can’t even afford chicken in this economy Democrats have so graciously bestowed on us.
It was not the Democrats that effed up the economy, it's the consequences of the pandemic, the disruption of global supply chains and the Ukraine war, mostly.
Plus, you're paying the "interest" in the form of inflation of all the money printing during the Trump presidency to artificially bloat your economy. Everybody except gullible ignorant murican trumpsters who have no idea how economies work saw this comming as result of 30% of all the money ever printed in Murica being printed during the Trump era.
Your greatgrandchildren will still be paying for your Dear Leader folly.
Pig damage a lot, like 3-4 of these destroy 5000 sq foot garden in a few hrs
get a dog and a better fence
@@genkiferal7178 These hogs kill dogs and eat them. They can weight up to 350lbs.
Fence? They can dig really well.
@@genkiferal7178 Go play with your kitty kat muffins.
@@genkiferal7178wild hogs will rip any dog to pieces and knock down any fence that built out wood or wire. Most hogs can take pistol rounds and the big ones can take smaller rife shots. They are natural tanks.
@@Randalf. illegal immigrants are the larger threat - as are the people advocating for allowing illegal immigration.
Fun fact if you let a domestic farm pig out into the wild it will transform into a boar within a short period of time growing tusks and running amok.
They're not doing ALOT OF good for some areas in Sothern MISSOURI and N.E. ARKANSAS EITHER.
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Time to start makin feral sausages.
why use sbr's? Wouldn't a 16"-18" rifle be better for velocity from a chopper?
Oh please, "ill loose up to 10% some years". The USDA and FDA, literally forces farmers to throw away 3.6+ million tons of food, every year. They do this to control agricultural inflation, however, it also covers farmers in the case of loses such as these because they just dont have to throw away any food or alot less because they produced less. The only reason farmers actually want boars gone in their bottom end, not ours. The median income for farmers is $160,000, with a household median of nearly $300,000. Loosing 10% off that and oh no, they cant buy their 3rd jetski. If an average joe looses 10% of his income he cant afford rent or hang out with friends that month. Im really not concerned for farmers, theyre incredibly protected by the USDA and FDA, our government looks out for our farmers.
The population of Kaua'i is about 80,000 and the estimated population of pua'a (boars) is probably at least 300,000. They destroy forests and need to be eliminated. A controversial subject because hunting has become a traditional activity, though my understanding was original Hawaiians didn't hunt them but kept them domesticated. Gee-I wonder why? They destroy native plants. They cause phenomenal erosion and because they love human food, they destroy human food supplies. Some of them weigh 300+ lbs and they are mostly muscle, despite the moniker "pig"-and being so smart, you can't fool them with tricks, you have to fence them out or in.
Whats the nutrition value of these hogs?
With all these feral hogs, I fully expect the cost of pork to go down. No excuses.
feral hogs when they hear fortunate son playing in the background
It's been a long time since I've watched the movie, but if I recall correctly, these are what killed Old Yeller. 😢
It was getting rabies from a bat, but he did save the boy from hogs I think.
Turn them into bacon
What can these be used for? It has to have some type of purpose. Food for zoos? Skins for clothing? Bones for ?
fertilizer
Food for people also, they are good eating.
get some profits back for damages mix them hogs with a little grain grind them up bake them into fish pellets and raise catfish and let the fish farmers have a hay day for free fish food
fish farm leftovers mixed with grain and baked into hog food pellets it's a give and take deal cash on both sides
Watching this I got an image of these hogs continuing to increase in number in the aftermath of an apocalypse, and evolving to grow as large as and numberless as the American bison once were; with the surviving tribes of human hunting them like the Plains Indians once did bison.☹️
Or surviving tribes of humans being hunted because their meager crops and the flesh in their bones are the last remaining food source for them
Like planet of the apes but with hogs
Computer controlled, belt fed sniping rifle equipped with night vision and suppressor, and delivers either head shot or heart shot to feral pigs.
Sounds good till a fat kid runs across the field
There is nothing unethical about killing these hogs.
We hunt them here in GA at night and also with pitbull dogs...
Y’all should see the hogs that run thru my property in Liberty, Tx. My son and and I hunt them often.
Then....fence it.
@@jerrylansbury9558 what?
@@johnnyg6448 Yah........fence it...... works for me !
Best way to deal with feral hogs, dont go to store and buy pork. Take rifle and go to nearest feral hogs population, pick your pork for free, win win situation.
Someone needs to invent a birth control feed
Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is... he's hard to stop!
Holy ???? 9 milllion. I never heard of this. Man we need all hands on deck for this. Why doesn't the government use the National Guard on this?
Why not use bait and C4? No toxic pollution, efficient and humane elimination, doesn't teach survivors to fear humans next time they're hunted.
Because you have to make sure you don't unintentionally kill native (non-hog) species.
Humane ?🤣Some people already do that. It kills only a few with quite a blast, while several others further away "squeal like a pig" in complete agony.
I mean legs blown off, holes in their hind quarters, half their faces blown off, their reproductive organs blown off as they writhe and squirm on the ground in intense pain.
Look for those videos on UA-cam, some may still be there. Some have been taken down for obvious reasons. Oops, not such a good idea I guess. Be careful what you wish for.
I was taking a trip to Savana, GA from Jacksonville, FL and I seen those animals in packs along the way. I seen fences getting taken down by a group of those animals. They were so many. All types of colors lol I thought these animals were apart of those farms. I was wrong.
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@@scottcharney1091 It can be a typo ! If you can't see the "I seen", you are not educated enough to differentiate a typo from a grammar/ vocabulary error!
@@BoringDad1272 is there a problem
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@@BoringDad1272 That too! I think that I skimmed it.
Firearms, choppers and wild hogs. What could possibly go wrong?!
sounds like a good time.
They look fierce . I bet they would look really fierce with a nice honey glaze and roasted potato's. Rice pudding
How about turning the problem into a career. The united states could pay citizens for each hog they kill. Problem solved
"How can you shoot sows and piglets?" "Easy... you don't lead 'em so much!"
Invasive species killing invasive species 😭
This is how they should've dealt with the Floyd rioters and looters.
What's the difference between a feral hog, a boar and a pig from a farm?
I’m not %100 sure but if you let a pink pig out into the wild in 3 months it will grow hair and look like a hog
Meat 🍖 in my fridge
When you say "hog" I believe you are referring to Boat. Boar are natural and truly wild animals.
Feral pigs are Domesticated Pigs, a different species bred by humans over thousands of years.
A big problem with feral pigs is that we bred them to have as many babies as possible as quickly as possible. So when they go wild they have approximately 40 babies per year, and it overwhelms the local ecosystem
@@KappaKiller108 so yes and no, majority of the hogs in texas are boars brought over from europe for the hunting sports
What about dog food manufacturers, why aren't they buying??
I just read Jason Landry may have been eaten by feral hogs so this is how I came to this story
Dang … makes me wonder about hiking safety…
Charleston MS is a place where hogs never live,it’s chaos
I see a sustainable food source and a lot o job openings
Don't leave them dead hogs laying there. Grab them up and feed the homless. I'm a felon can't hold a gun but I sure would love to help you guys cause I would start my own wild cought BBQ restaurant. True fact 💯 a pink domesticated pig 🐖 can turn into a wild bore after 2 weeks of being released into the wild but takes many any years to turn a bore into a domesticated pig.
I was thinking the same thing. The price of meat is so high right now. If they are eating the crop, then why aren't the farmers rounding them up for slaughter. That way, they can recoop some of their loss.
SENESTECH has a chemical which effects the female ability to get pregnant
The other wild animals use them for food
@@ginadelsasso288 They said some dead hogs were being processed for overseas meat sales.
They trying to make a profit not charity unless you stay near a farm that’s trying to get rid of them.
They say the big ones taste terrible
Why dont you try to eat?
We need to introduce African wild dogs to Texas , this problem gonna get handled quickly
Then wouldn't the dogs become a problem?
What about all the hogs they show in Pork Illustrated every year?
Not enough predators in the food chain.
Cannot wait for the day McDonalds offer McSwine.
Make them a upscale center plate menu item, problem solved. How many times has that happened!!!!!? Everytime!!
They love treats. Barrel fed from Glocks and High powered rifles.
"I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate."
We are in mid Missouri and grow chestnuts and pawpaws. Hogs would make our operation untenable.
That’s more ribs, bacon, pulled pork
C'mon Texas!
You guys love to preach about BBQ but you're letting your food eat your crops?!
Food for people when there is no food at the grocer’s.
happy hunting. how marketable is the meat? 🙊
Farmers stripping the land of its natural ecosystems to plant one crop.. farmers might be the problem
Here in Trinidad we would never have this problem . 😂
Use rocket launchers
So $1.5 Billion problem, but 9 million wild pigs. Imagine if we had a hunting/trapping program could net half of them. That's 4.5 million. There's quite a bit of expenses there so say one can net $450 on average for each pig(this is a lot less than domesticate pigs right now which indeed are right there at the farm, but wild meat actually sells at a premium). That's at least $2 Billion. I don't see why it's such a big problem. Most of the crops we grow in this country we use to feed livestock that we eat the meat from. In other words, we eat pork so it's a lot better than say possums eating crops. Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. I knew somebody who used to say: "Rabbits are eating some of my garden, but I don't mind so much as I'm eating some of those rabbits!"
cant we feed them to the homeless??
I wish!! But the US makes it illegal to feed the hungry. They encourage throwing things away that are still good instead. Including life saving medications and food. Heartbreaking
Right? But it’s America
@@patoteto2 EXACTLY! profit over everything!
It's neither safe nor economically viable.
These animals carry a lot of diseases and parasites and it's more expensive to hunt and transport them than farm bred pigs who are safe to eat.
I call bs. If it's such a problem make it illegal to charge hunters to kill them. You all WANT them there.
So in 5 years nothing has been done. Smh.
Well, it’s the south mostly. Rethugulins are in charge. They hate the redneck “farmers”, so it’s no surprise nothing is done.
We have the same problem with crime in our cities.
Really ? Because crime is down in pretty much every state. Violent crime is down, petty crime is up. Of course you are in Texassastan, so your media is faux noise. You get B.S. constantly. Sorry.
I disagree hunting with guns but when the problem is as big as it is then yeah it's a case of having to,
Sounds like a job for the military...
I’ve heard that they aren’t safe to hunt for food because they carry tapeworms. Is that true?
When the poop hits the fan, the big population will decrease rapidly!
Wolves are the only solution.
Pass a bill to allow licensed hunters to hunt and trap for pay that’ll allow the indigenous wildlife time to repopulate and put more focus on the problem
Send me info on the tanning sides
CALL IN THE ANGRY BIRDS.
How about shipping to zoos. Or even to foreign conservation areas.
The TX legislature has really dropped the ball on this issue. This has been escalating for YEARS and I have yet to see any state politician come up with a thoughtful way to deal with the feral hog problem.
First these TX landowners that exclusively profit off of wild hog "hunts" are a huge part of the problem. Lets be serious here. They have no interest in controlling the population of these animals. More hogs means more profits for them. Given the intelligence, adaptability and breeding rate of feral hogs these properties are just safe havens for the species to continue to flourish.
I also don't think that just "more gun" is the answer to the problem. Feral hog hunting is very common in TX. If just more guns, more bullets was the answer the situation would already be improving. There look to be some interesting products coming to market that aim to control birthrate of the species more directly. A reliable interruption of this species breeding cycle is necessary if the population is ever expected to be brought under control.
Time for TX legislators to put their money where there mouths are. It is estimated that there is more than 50 million dollars of damages annually attributed to feral hogs. Budget 10% of that annually for funding research and development for a solution.
A problem this big impacts every Texan in one way or another. Forget about $5 hog bounties. In this video they show people flying in a helicopter shooting some hogs. Lets just say they can kill 1000 hogs a day using this method. Total bounty would be $5000. How much does it cost to lease a helicopter? How about fueling the helicopter? How about travel to and from the location? Ammo? Paying the pilot? Paying the shooter? You see the problem? It costs a LOT more than $5 to kill a single hog.
Novel challenges require novel solutions.
Well, you have a bevy of moronic bigots in charge at the state capital. The rethugulins have no interest in governing. They really don’t know how ,nor do they care. Bigotry and greed are their motivators. They do everything in their power to make women second class citizens. They hate women and continually treat them as chattel. Until you get rid of the pigs in your government, you will have pigs on your property. The people you have put in charge, care nothing about your problems. Vote Blue in every race. It’s the only way to change your situation. Hopefully you won’t freeze to death this winter when the grid fails again.
It'll never get fixed because it makes more money to sell all these "remedies" that dont do full eradication in the long run. Somebody has to be paid.