05-31-2022, 01:52 AM
We have unprecedented pig damage up in OLE. We've spoke to some old timers who can't recall so many pigs and so much pig damage going back 30 years.
I speculate it's because the subdivision is having so many lots cleared from the building boom they are more noticeable and damaging, but I'm not a biologist so don't really know.
I've lost track of how many we have trapped and killed over the last year or so. They've fed a lot of families, including ours and our dogs, but the freezers are full. But the visible population is still increasing, it's not uncommon for us to see 15 or more at a time.
What are things like elsewhere? We're considering investing in electric fencing, but it would be a major undertaking. If it was just a couple of troublesome pigs like in years past, it would be no problem for us to deal with them, but what is going on now is crazy. In other states that I've lived, when pests seemed to peak in population like this, some disease came through and knocked them down to almost nothing, so sometimes doing nothing is the best thing. Thoughts?
I speculate it's because the subdivision is having so many lots cleared from the building boom they are more noticeable and damaging, but I'm not a biologist so don't really know.
I've lost track of how many we have trapped and killed over the last year or so. They've fed a lot of families, including ours and our dogs, but the freezers are full. But the visible population is still increasing, it's not uncommon for us to see 15 or more at a time.
What are things like elsewhere? We're considering investing in electric fencing, but it would be a major undertaking. If it was just a couple of troublesome pigs like in years past, it would be no problem for us to deal with them, but what is going on now is crazy. In other states that I've lived, when pests seemed to peak in population like this, some disease came through and knocked them down to almost nothing, so sometimes doing nothing is the best thing. Thoughts?