Is this real? They make pigloos out of cattails? Spose to be a big problem.

Since the 90s

Where did you get that picture of Boco's girlfriend?

Yep.

probably tore into a rat hut

They came from Russia so yep they will survive the cold.

If that is the kind of habitat they live in up there, a couple guys with some thermal set ups could wipe them out in a hurry.

They say shooting them scatters the herd which makes them expand even more. Sounds like a terrible problem
Ill try to post the lengthy article in pieces.

Sounds like buckthorn. You cut down the new growth and they come back with a vengeance.
I don't think the Canadian strain is the same as the ones in the southern US. The southern ones don't seem to migrate very far north.

I dont figure they just live in the wide open - if they did - they would be easy to get rid of. I have shot hundreds, maybe thousands. I killed 153 in a six month period one time - and couldnt tell I had killed one. Local trappers who dont know what they are doing wise them up, helicopter gunning, hog dogging, hog tournaments, and half the rural population with thermal setups couldnt get rid of them. In my area, the USDA trappers finally did. Last hog I killed was Oct 2024. I have got pictures of two since then - big boars just roaming through. I expected them to repopulate much quicker. My thermal is collecting dust. 😎

Good Post

Lack of old school farmers on here. Pigs make nests, wild or otherwise. Throw some hogs in the woods and they will make little huts or nests.

No.......a couple thermals wouldn't make a dent in the pop and not a chance of wiping them out.......lol

Is anyone in Canada making a coordinated, concentrated effort to get rid of them? Seems like before populations explode, this would be the time to get them - dont wait until there are 2.6 million hogs like texas has alone. Theoretically - at least one would think - they should be easier to trap in canada with a winter season where food can be scarce compared to the south where seasons are much kinder. Our state greatly curtailed hog hunting on most public ground with no plan in place after that. The public ground became hog breeding refuges and they spilled out - increasing the population of surrounding ground. That is what happened when I killed 153 hogs in six months off 62 acres that bordered some public ground where hog hunting had largely been curtailed - they flowed out in a never ending river of hogs. They stopped hunting on public - but werent prepared to do anything about the uncontrolled population explosion.

I think banning hunting is an effective tool in areas where pigs have not colonized all habitat - but control measures need to be put into place at the same time. I know folks who were killing as many hogs as I was. I cant imagine how many hogs there would have been if there werent a bunch of hunters killing 100’s of hogs a year on private ground as the hogs were breeding uncontrolled on public.

I am not much of a fan of coyotes - but they fed heavily on piglets. The sows might have six or eight pigs, but in eight weeks, they might only have three left. It was interesting when USDA removed the hogs, most of the coyotes disappeared after a year. We have very few rabbits or rats - there wasnt much left for a coyote to eat year round.

Got to admit, I do miss shooting them

No worries bud,your wife is not my girlfriend.

An old trapper hermit brought a half dozen of those big hairy pigs up to his little homestead in Otter rapids,he had a couple horses a couple cows and some goats and wild turkeys,
The only thing he had left after a couple winters was the horses and cows,the wolves killed all the goats pigs and turkeys.