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oh boy, arent they like 200 kg of angry meat?
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
oh boy, arent they like 200 kg of angry meat?
- GiorgioG 4y agoBig enough that when the cousin he was with returned with adult help, the sow had shredded all of his clothes and he had bites all over his body.
- wahern 4y agoAs a kid I briefly lived in a rented trailer on a smallish farm which grew mustard greens and raised hogs. The owner was missing half an ear, taken by a hog. At least, that was the story he told when he caught me one day about to stick my hand into the hog pen. True account or not, the lesson is true all the same: hogs eat people, and angry or hungry hogs are not to be trifled with.
- OJFord 4y agoBut some can be truffled with.
- rodgerd 4y agoThe largest domestic breeds push up to 300 to 400 kilos. We had one free-range pig on our farm that was certainly over a quarter-tonne, and she was agile enough that she'd occasionally run down chickens and eat them, and jaws strong enough to chew up cow skulls left over from home-kill. Pigs are generally smart and friendly if they haven't been mistreated. I would not want to mess with one.
- jimmux 4y agoPeople like to joke about all the native Australian animals that can kill you, but the animal I was most afraid of as a farm kid was the feral pigs. I saw photos of recently shot pigs that were too big to fit on the back of a ute, and often found small trees completely uprooted by them. Fortunately the largest feral pigs I ever ran into were a litter and a small sow that preferred to scatter than stand their ground.