For the past 5 years, feral hogs are overwhelming America’s Texas farmlands | Nightline
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- Опубликовано: 4 янв 2022
- 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 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😂
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
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!
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
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.
Looks like the solution to food shortage...
Doesn’t taste good
@@athletico7707 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
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.
If only people like to eat feral pigs like they do blue crabs, they'd be under control.
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.
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.
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.
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
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'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
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?
Hey look we solved the food inflation issue
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
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.
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
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.
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.
They're not doing ALOT OF good for some areas in Sothern MISSOURI and N.E. ARKANSAS EITHER.
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Whats the nutrition value of these hogs?
I am more worried about the hog in uniform than these!
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.
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 !
why use sbr's? Wouldn't a 16"-18" rifle be better for velocity from a chopper?
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.
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.
Time to start makin feral sausages.
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.
They look fierce . I bet they would look really fierce with a nice honey glaze and roasted potato's. Rice pudding
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
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.
With all these feral hogs, I fully expect the cost of pork to go down. No excuses.
"America's Texas Farmlands"?
Nope. Texan's Texas Farmlands
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!
I see a sustainable food source and a lot o job openings
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
We hunt them here in GA at night and also with pitbull dogs...
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
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.
happy hunting. how marketable is the meat? 🙊
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.
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?
Someone needs to invent a birth control feed
5:35 funny how I was just looking up why the price of turkey has gone up before this.. apparently ham is up way more,, that's how i got to this
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…
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 !
and people wonder why you might want an AR. This is exactly why.
feral hogs when they hear fortunate son playing in the background
Make them a upscale center plate menu item, problem solved. How many times has that happened!!!!!? Everytime!!
8:30 Was that Hanna Barron?
Turn them into bacon
Firearms, choppers and wild hogs. What could possibly go wrong?!
sounds like a good time.
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 RUclips, 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 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."
I disagree hunting with guns but when the problem is as big as it is then yeah it's a case of having to,
One of the ways to reduce the number of wild boars, hunting in a helicopter is great
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.
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
"How can you shoot sows and piglets?" "Easy... you don't lead 'em so much!"
They love treats. Barrel fed from Glocks and High powered rifles.
Here in Trinidad we would never have this problem . 😂
We are in mid Missouri and grow chestnuts and pawpaws. Hogs would make our operation untenable.
They say the big ones taste terrible
Why dont you try to eat?
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.
I wonder what the deal is with the hogs in Dunseith ND
How about turning the problem into a career. The united states could pay citizens for each hog they kill. Problem solved
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.
I wonder about the economics of operating a Helicopter with 4 people(& AR10's) aboard to shoot how many Hog's per flight vrs a commercially available trap that can catch whole sounders time after time for years & years. I'd bet you could throw in an agricultural drone with a thermal camera to track & target for a few Helicopter flight's.
Of course the profit from a dozen paid for Helicopter Hog Hunts would easily cover the cost of a new Pig Brig or one of the many commercially available drop traps & the affor mentioned Agricultural Drone with a Thermal Camera!
A single Heli-Hunt would probably cost more than an Agricultural Drone & a Home Made figure C Trap ;).
Surely the single heli-hunt costs more than a pig brig??
Home made C Trap's just a couple hundred, though there's some pretty nice agricultural drone's a basic drone with thermal's what $4-500??
What about dog food manufacturers, why aren't they buying??
Charleston MS is a place where hogs never live,it’s chaos
What about all the hogs they show in Pork Illustrated every year?
bring it in the Philippines
Not enough predators in the food chain.
I’m coming over to help you all! I’ll bring my “50 Cal”
I been trying to buy shitterlings (chitterlings) since turkey 🦃 day and no bueno. Store shortage of offal. SMH
Food for people when there is no food at the grocer’s.
like palin in alaska
Cotrol with the feed put something in the food water
There is nothing unethical about killing these hogs.
I’ve heard that they aren’t safe to hunt for food because they carry tapeworms. Is that true?
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!"
Use rocket launchers
How about shipping to zoos. Or even to foreign conservation areas.
Just send the freagin coast guard after them...
"GRENAAADE"
dalin niyo sa pilipinas yan dami nagugutom dito
Cannot wait for the day McDonalds offer McSwine.
Where did they come from?
they were imported from europe a long time ago. they breed very fast
One word; landmines lol
That’s more ribs, bacon, pulled pork
When the poop hits the fan, the big population will decrease rapidly!
Are they edible?
8:25 Why do people need to learn more about it? That will do nothing to erradicate feral hogs.