They spawn 3 litters in 2 years, some litters of a dozen. That’s a lot of ham that does some serious damage to the countryside.
“They can decimate the range land by tearing up everything,” said Tahnee Szymanski, an assistant veterinarian with the Montana Department of Livestock.
Feral hogs will eat about anything, and root under the surface with their tusks to chew up whatever is in their way to get it, leaving devastated farm fields in their wake.
Seeing the damage they do is easy, but catching them is hard, according to Ryan Brook, an assistant professor at the University of Saskatchewan.
They are smart and amazingly fast. And they quickly learn to do their damage at night.
I’ve reported on them before and they roam from sea to shining sea and boar-der to boar-der.
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