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Count your blessings, Fabs. Hogs have caused several million dollars in damage to agriculture to this state. That doesn't count state and city parks or other urban areas. The legislature just approved $500,000 for bounties on hogs.
Hogs root up the ground, tear up fences, eat anything they want - including fawns, goats, calves, etc. They are not predatory, but is they come upon one they won't hestitate to eat it.
The other day I talked to a hunter who said he bowhunts. He shoots blunts at hogs to run them off the feeders. I told him if he didn't shoot the hogs he was part of the problem. Sows can breed at 6 months and have 2 litters of 8-12 a year. There are no predators. Game officials say if a sow has 6 in her litter, 8 will survive.
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