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This is nonsense. No farmer or rancher in Texas wants feral hogs, and no one in Texas tries to promote feral hog populations. We have something like 4 million
by cryptonector 4y ago
This is nonsense. No farmer or rancher in Texas wants feral hogs, and no one in Texas tries to promote feral hog populations. We have something like 4 million feral hogs. The problem is that avid 1 hunter can take out 20-30 in one night, but they don't go out to do it every night, and there's not enough feral hog hunters to make a dent.
Feral hogs cause enormous amounts of damage, and there's no hope of hunting or trapping them down to manageable numbers much less zero.
- MagicMoonlight 4y agoIf I’m a hog farmer and I can make 200 smeckles for a standard hog or get paid 400 smeckles for each “feral hog” I hand over then logically I’ll just start breeding the feral ones instead. The market finds the most profitable solution, not necessarily the best solution.
- giardini 4y agoYou foolishly extrapolate to a market that has never existed (in Texas at least).
- cryptonector 4y agoThere is no market for feral hogs. Sure, casual hunters may pay to get to hunt a bunch of feral hogs, but professional hog hunters get paid a lot for it (they use helicopters, to give you an idea of how much farmers and ranchers will pay for that service). The value of a feral hog's meat on the market is zero.