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Chick
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Posted: Tue Mar 18th, 2008 03:16 am |
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http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/animal_health/sb_pr/feral_swine.pdf
Click on this link for an interesting read.
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firedawg226
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 11:03 am |
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| Very interesting reading indeed. Ga. Has done some testing on swine caught here all tested negative for psuedo rabies and brucellis.
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 12:56 pm |
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| Several years ago, Texas Animal Health Commision reported that 80% of the feral hog population tested positive for psuedorabies, but I see that they now are saying20%.
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Nutoy
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 04:18 pm |
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Interesting read,, but,,,,,,,,,,I'm going to play the devils advocate on this one. Heres why. 
I have read that same report tooooo many times. At least this guy didn't copy and paste his whole report from the others, just parts of it. He did add the part about ranchers paying trappers to keep their places stocked. Duhhhh. This has been happening for a very long time.
I can understand the TAHC's concern about the spread of diseases by feral hogs but IMO they are no different than the whinnnney ranchers that are crying about the hogs tearing up their hay pastures. They all want money,,,,,,,, and they are getting it. How much do you reckon this report costed us as taxpayers.
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Posted: Wed Mar 19th, 2008 05:04 pm |
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| I don't know how much the report cost, but I have been baling hay for about 20 years and get routine letters from the Agricultural Extention agent, plus emails, and I have never seen nor heard of anyone getting compensated by the government, or any agency, for feral hog damage. I have heard of farmers complaining of the damage, and I have seen it. Normally, around here, the damaged area is no bigger than 20 foot square, but I have seen pictures of much more than that. I know that I planted a strip of rye grass at another deer lease, that was about 200 foot long and 20 foot wide, and the hogs sifted through every bit of it. This was newly disced ground though. Moles and Prairie Dogs are heck on hay fields too.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 01:34 am |
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I guess I should have been more detailed in my above statement about whos getting compensated for feral hog damages.
The hay farmers may not be getting compensated but crop farmers make insurance claims for damage. Several agencies are getting funds for "research" on the economic impact of feral hogs. I was told by a Texas Dept of Ag employee that funds to the effect of $5,000,000.00 was distributed between TAHC, TDA and Texas A&M for research of feral hogs. TAHC was whining about not getting enough funds to enforce regulations pertaining to feral hogs. I do not know for a fact about the money but if it is that $5,000,000.00 came from the pockets of taxpayers.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20th, 2008 05:54 am |
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The money has to come from taxpayers for the research. I know that some states have on going studies of feral hog eradication programs. On the lease I was on before this one, the timber company told us that if we could not do something about getting the feral hog population in check (claimed they were rooting up seedlings) that they would hire a professional trapper to come in and trap, snare or poison them. SO, what happened? The people that were in the know, went out had had wholesale slaughter on the hogs. I don' remember if I saw anymore after that. Too many people want to see them disappear, period. I want to have hogs, for sure, but I also don't want too many. How do you know how many you have and what is a good number? You don't. You just have to look at trail cams and take a educated guess. I know there are hogs that I recognize come in with 3 other hogs one day, then 3 days later, there are 20 with them.
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