Feral Hogs in North America: An Overview
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- Feral hogs, or wild pigs, are an invasive species expanding their territory across the United States. Feral hogs are not native to North America and, according to some experts, cause $1.5 billion in damage each year. Noble Foundation wildlife consultants and researchers take a look at how the pigs got to our continent, where and how they have expanded their territory, and some of the problems they are causing for landowners and the agricultural industry.
I'm supposed to be working instead I am watching a documentary about feral pigs.
I'm supposed to be finishing a project,but the pigs
I am supposed to be working now but instead typing a silly comment to an obscure comment made several years ago while watching a totally irrelevant video.
That's right
Same predicament, another time, another place.
@@prashanthb6521usss😂
have 30-50 of these in my yard, help
Bacon sandwich recipe:
First catch your hog.
Sounds like you need a semi automatic rifle.
Too bad the Democrats want to take them away from you.
@@ryanmcewen393 Won't they leave if you just shoot one?
@@ryanmcewen393 They should be taken away from most. People in urban areas who get all their food from markets. I can be understanding if you have to hunt for food or defend against animals.
@@aclark903 Feral hogs have a tendency to shoot back when you shoot at them, best spray them all before they can call in more feral hogs.
As a VERY EXPERIENCED hog hunter, it’s nice to see real true information about wild hogs instead of the fantasized hype that most posters put out there.
Clearly this is general information which I believe is quite accurate.
But of course there are always exceptions to any rule.
Very well presented accurate information here.
My friend Kevin had a big pond on his ranch and he'd let me fish in it. One night about a year ago I called him to see if I could come out there (Elgin, Texas) and he informed me that the pond was no longer there. I thought he lost his mind! Turns out, feral hogs came through and just destroyed. If you saw the mud bog that used to be a nice pond, you'd think someone took a huge back hoe to it. These hogs are incredibly destructive.
In many areas, it is legal to hut them, no matter what the season.
Paul Moffat texas. you can hunt em from a helicopter here.
@Mike Gee You should probably check with your local butchers and ask them if they carry any wild boar.
I talked to an Appalachian Trail hiker who told me he had been chased up a tree by a wild pig
That struck by lightning quote is false. Maybe in your area they aren't aggressive but in mine they will charge you out of nowhere.
Yes thank you
@Mike Gee in sc its 24/7
365 come on down and dust one
When I was stationed at Guam, Hafa Adai!, I was taking trash out while in the outer bands of a typhoon that were kickin our bohiners. Even though I was the Watch Supvr, decided to take out the trash, as the wind was very strong, and the females were relieved that I volunteered. I wouldn't want my spouse or daughter to go out into the storm as far as the dumpster was. Anyway...Our spaces were on the 2nd deck of the bldg. I went down the steps, and out where the dumpster was. This was a open area right next to the Boonies. As I walked up to the dumpster, I thought I heard a noise. I blew it off as the wind. I was walking back to the bldg, and heard the noise again but not as loud. I looked back to see a wild sow running from the dumpster, right for me. With the wind now at my face, running was difficult, but as I went up the ladder steps, I looked back about half way up, only to see the sow standing at the bottom, grunting and squealing. I got up to the landing and looked down again, and from between two cars, out walked a piglet. The sow grunted a couple of times and both trotted off back into the Boonies. She was certain I had her piglet and wanted it back! Those steps saved me, for sure. I'm sure hogs will charge or attack often times for no real reason. Ok, I'll shut this Word Fit down. Regrets for Lack of Brevity. Y'all Take Care and Stay SAFE!! Prayers for those in Ida's path.
This is a great video. It is very informative and hits on all the main points. It dispels myths about feral hogs and provides good information. I would like to see more specific management techniques and their effectiveness.
If you want to control them, ban wolf and puma hunting firstly.
wolf and pumas dont just eat feral hogs
mario moso, you’re right they do and they are a native species that belongs in North America. It’s been scientifically proven that healthy eco systems have a balanced number of apex predators like wolves and pumas to keep the non predatory species in balance. The problem is the overpopulation of people, the most destructive force there is.
@@sq6529, Why? Because some idiot makes an assumption? At 56 I’m past the need for birth control. However I do believe in and practiced zpg, zero population growth. It’s not animals who have ruined the world, it’s humans.
PRICELESS INFORMATION !!!!! Keep up the great work. Thank you.
I got my first parasite from pigs! The creek I drink from is usually quite clean and clear, but we’ve been having some pretty rough pig issues, they brought worms there.
Im supposed to be studying yet am watching a documentary about Wild Hogs
Samesies. I also have a French Foreign Legion recruitment video up next, and like 40 Wikipedia tabs open on my other screen.
Stunning animals wild hogs, to be respected, you look at these domesticated pigs, then at these hogs with fur thick enough to withstand a blizzard, the parallel is crazy.
Intelligent, powerful, and beautiful.
That said if they are invasive preventive measures should be put in place.
NOBLE is the outstanding organization whose duty and commitment standard.is excellence.
The wild hogs would be a good food source for zoos to feed the meat eaters.
I watched 5:21 no less than a dozen times.
Senpai! Did you find the link on the Reddit thread about boars in a patch of Corn getting harvested?
Super interesting stuff, I've been reading up on it, and I'm not even from the US.
SmarterEveryDay you made my day with this comment.
GOTCHA !
lol. they nearly got away....
Me too. Wonder why it is designed to spiral down instead of just falling straight down?
Love the Jager Pro capture system with the highest success rate. I've learned so much from their channel!
When could learning be so entertaining.
Really nicely put together content!!
BC (Before Coffee, knuckles still dragging on the ground) I thought this was about cruiser motorcycles! But looks like an interesting article anyway. We have big problems like this in New Zealand, where "Captain Cookers" have an impact about the same as a Land Rover.
Very informative-- thank you!
Great information! Thank you!!
I live in Barcelona, in a neighborhood besides Collserola natural park.
It's very usual to find them wandering in the streets looking for food.
Sometimes, walking through the park, I've found some of them, but most of the time they run the opposite way, unless they're with their puppies or they feel trapped and don't have any way of escape..in this case they are very dangerous. Several times my best option was to be quiet and out of their way until it was safe to continue mine.
Just a couple months ago, a woman doing homecare, in Texas was attacked and killed between her car and the home her patients were at. She was nawed by multiple animals.
i havent seen any people get struck by lightening but ive seen dozens of people get attacked buy wild pigs.
I have too. When the pigs are provoked
Get 151% alcohol soak corn until saturated place corn where hogs congregate. Check back in a couple hrs. Have a utility trailer when checking..have fun...
You're a liar.
Where I hunt, the farmers complain about wild hogs tearing up their land, then want to charge 75-100 to hunt them. I understand they need to recoup some from the loss of their crops, but allowing hunters access to kill the hogs helps them. Then if there's a fence line involved, gotta worry about trespassing to recover a kill, or wounded. Some guys will still use tree stands so they can see into a field, landowner may have issues with that too.
The state used to bring in trappers, but it got to expensive. Now it's open season year round.
The F&W along with local law enforcement freak out if they see anyone hunting at night. Bad problem with poaching in the past.
With the NVG and thermal getting cheaper it makes it easier to take them at night. Still going to set you back hundreds for the gear though. And unless you have a suppressor, one shot and they're in the wind. That's another couple of hundred and a waiting period.
Any well informed individual knows that feral hogs are nothing short of an ecological menace. There are some who think that declaring an open hunting season on them might help. It might be worth trying it out.
I agree with you
Darn it Hernando! You messed up a perfectly good ecosystem is what you did! Look at it! It has anxiety.
Trapped a 320lb boar, an 80lb sow, and a 73lb boar this past weekend. The big boar was no good but he'll make a nice skull mount. The other two had fantastic meat! All solid black. Caught in Dallas County, Arkansas.
Backgroudn music is a treat. Lovely
Make em ham and bacon... Problem solved...
Exactly
@Mike Gee theres no season or limit on them, they can be killed anytime
nice video but the music is too loud
Pork Chops, Bacon, baby back ribs we need to hunt em and eat em.
hi! tysm u helped me with my project :333!!
I totally agree about better rig for bush hogging.
How many 5 x 8 panels do you use for a catch pen and 13 T fence posts
They do make good bacon and chops.
Very informative video.
It was common practice for crews of ships going to new territories to carry Wild Pigs/goats etc and release them on islands or in new lands with the intention that they reproduce and can be used as a food source for future voyages.
They need to do a little more research we got one hunting in the 1980s that weighed 310 lbs and was mean we were deer hunting and came across it by accident it came after us unprovoked so we shot it and kept it
I am sure they are smart and bet the really big ones don't get caught often
Love wild boars so much! They're the most adaptable, bada**, intelligent animals.
They are dangerous, destructive and a menace and those facts can't be stressed enough.
Friends in Georgia started using a simple circle of heavy stakes hung with heavy netting they easily walk under after a few days.
Works VERY well for their purposes.
They taste better than commercialized hogs...my father used to hunt them in the mountains and their meat is crimson red..smells better than meat bought in market..
You mean this really is about wild hogs? I expected something about politicians.
This technology of trapping feral hogs is very promising.
Jager pro is the best
"Noble Research" apparently believes that background "music" is necessary while a narrator is speaking. Why?
Constant hunting of these hogs and they still can't get their numbers down? Makes you wonder if extinction is even a thing.
@@iii___iii I can look at hundreds of videos of dead hogs but their numbers not falling?
I can understand how hunting would cause the pigs to be found in more places, due to being chased, but why did they start producing more when people started hunting them? I mean....other than evolutionary reasons like natural selection - I don't comprehend this phenomena.
I hope Noble Research has updated their sources. Their description of feral pig behavior is spot on, but their info on sizes is not. In Central Texas, I harvested a 200# hog several years ago. I restrict my hog kills to 150# due to amount of meat after processing (you will be eating it for a while) and the fact that size = age, so after 200# they get gamy.. Hence I have to be selective when I see them. I eradicated a 350# hog, and that wasn't the 400# one we were trying to get rid of on that hnting trip. I eradicated a 300# and 350# on a subsequent trip. There are verified weigh-ins of 800# to 900#. Many suburban areas are starting to see 400# examples showing up in neighborhoods. All these are wild (i.e. NOT DOMESTICATED), and big. 1000# is a serious stretch for a feral pig, but they easily get above 150#.
I hope you know you need to kill them at a faster rate. Get an ar 50 and take care of them.
I saw a hog on Matagorda Peninsula that had to weigh in excess of 600 lbs. We chased him around a bit and i was concerned he would turn on us and overturn the Suzuki Samurai we were riding in (my freind driving the vehicle somewhat reckless). The terrain was a bit rough and sandy so the animal just flat outran us. It looked more like a small black rhino than a hog.
We raised hogs for decades (non-confinement) and boars can easily reach 600 lbs. We usually sent them to market at 350+/- lbs. But a good performer is worth keeping around longer. Even though I've seen thousands of hogs I'm not sure how big they would get if you kept feeding them high protein diet. I suspect Hogzilla would not be out of the question for top size.
Same here, I lived in Texas for six years and have killed lots of hogs. Most of the hogs weighed between 150-200lbs.
I'm busy every day catching wild hogs need any gone give me a call I'm in central Florida
@Mike Gee Where are you? Texas? Florida? You keep making these replies. Are you wanting hunting season to increase demand for the product? (Like, we have the means to get pumpkin any time of the year, but making it seasonal demands that we only get it in Autumn).
@Mike Gee I'm giving you the answers you wanted.
@Mike Gee Look, you replied to a lot of people asking for something. I gave you a lot of answers. I didn't give you a whole article on the subject, I simply told you that it was easy to look up and that there was no need for you to bug everyone with your strange behavior.
These things are some beasts
I feel like he's talking about people.
How long does it take for a domesticated pig to turn feral? Is it a few months or years or generations?
Good video 🐷
I know of at least one wild hog attack. It happens. They are also coming in more populated areas. My wife came out of a Dr Office on the Southside of Jacksonville, Fl She got in the car and then a wild pig came out of nowhere ran in front of us and into the shrubs
Feral hogs destroyed my uncle cabbage garden ,5 days before the harvest 😔😔
We went from 30,000,000 buffalo to several hundred before we began saving them. Are you telling me we can't greatly reduce the hog population?
Bison("buffalo") are bison. They weren't intelligent as pigs. Feral pigs are extremely agressive. Their 'dog teeth' have become razor-sharp tusks, some about 7 inches long. They will eat anything, even other pigs, and people.
No money in it. Bison were almost wiped out because it was making people money. No real money in Feral hogs yet. If someone started a dog food company or other company to profit from hogs then the population problem would be solved in a year. Unless someone can get rich it won't be seriously addressed.
@@garrisont.1047 the vast majority of slain buffalo were left to rot in the field. There was not much money in killing them. It was primarily sport.
Too many special interests in ensuring they don't go away
Bill L. Sport shooting was a part of it, but mainly they were killed for their skin. Coats were extremely popular in the late 1860s and '70s. But I think a lot of it was pure politics: Get rid of the buffalo and you get rid of the Indians and open the land to cattle and later farming.
The clear pattern of recreational hunters being a major pest in themselves is rife in western countries at least,. Probably elsewhere also unless their introductions of pests intended for their amusement is rapidly stamped out. And then they wail about "poachers". And often impede effective pest control.
They are a valid user group, but many are selfish and actively ignorant about their problem status, a major issue for those who don't cause problems. Since some of the ignorant are also rich types like Safari Club members etc, ignorance and money get to do their damage with influence.
In many states they can be hunted year around. No limit on numbers that can be taken.
But, this don't help to control them. Only native predator conservation and reintroduction can.
FalconfromRF hunting and predators that eat them will help. Added bonus if you have a healthy predator population more game to responsibly hunt.
Wild boar have FEW PREDATORS and where hogs are prolific, there are virtually no predators that are tough enough to kill them.
@@randytausch3519 bears will kill a hog and eat it.
@@stanlysteemer4872 I’m sure you are correct. But in TEXAS, we have millions of hogs, and virtually no bears.
Dealing with hogs, one barbecue at a time
In our land we spend two three days to hunt down even one, sometimes we go empty hand. Wild hogs are on the verge of extinct here but different story in USA.
Why isn’t it open season everywhere all the time? Is there something I’m missing, like hunters doing damage of some kind?
We need some in PA to hunt
Wow, this is happening in America? We LOVE bacon way too much to have this going down. Game plan: Ya'll rope 'em / I'll smoke 'em
Wouldn’t wild boar taste awesome???
i would disagree about danger to people. the bores as they get large are not easily scared away and i'm not the only one who has had them grazing less than a dozen feet from my dogs. the herd, numbering about 40+ will graze about 75 feet distant (on another guys property which prevents me from dealing with them, but they learn where danger is and exploit it.
i do not know enough about the nurse killed by pigs to comment on what happened there, but i have only seen herds of them get defensive when babies are involved. as for numbers of babies, on a dirt road i have seen billions upon billions of tracks in the dirt of the babies making me think it was either a mom with a large population or 2 moms. given the number of dogs i have and the thousands and thousands of tracks they make over an area, i estimate there had to be at least 13-25 babies on the road.
introduce Siberian tigers that's the only thing that can control them
Don't worry crocodiles, lions , bears , komodo dragons, wolves , cougars all work fine
Actually tho we should stop farming animals, get stronger dogs as pets, and give children guns and bring the cougars back.
ARIES9327 you must be using dope to think replacing a pain in the as hog with a tiger is the answer.
I too support dating older women.
It's just ninja.
So why are there still starving people?! They're being overran by ham!
Nahh, wild pigs is the fearsome animals in the whole euroasia.. lions, tigers, jaguars, crocs and wolves are nothing to him compare to their fearless attitude.. they protect they land even for exchange their lives. Battle to death just to show others that they will not surrender. Wild hogs is one the most dangerous animals living today why? Because they are bad ass they no have mercy and they fight until they last breath
Love the Nobel Foundation, consulted with Dr Charles Rohla on our Pecan orchard.
The Hog issue is serious in North Texas. Any options to poison them? We have no cell phone coverage for the Boar Buster, or we would buy one..
If you poisoned them then you wouldn’t be able to enjoy their meat unless you have a death wish.
North America once had two genus of peccaries, platygonus and mylohyus, throughout the continent not long ago as evolution goes. Feral hogs are quite similar animals to these extinct ones so are filling a vacant niche.
That said I'm sure they are not the most helpful neighbors for the farmer. At the moment there aren't a lot of predators in its range that can take down a pig.
At the same time the peccaries roamed America there were wolves and jaguars roaming over the whole continent too. Mega fauna presents mega issues but things fall apart without it.
Hunting them for food isnt economical ?
@@prashanthb6521 They are considered a pest so they are always in season so to speak. Hunting and trapping of them is always highly encouraged by local governments.
Problem is they breed very fast and often, a female hog will have a litter roughly every 3 to 4 months.
You are talking about a totally different species unrelated to hogs.
@@randytausch3519 Actually they are quite closely related. Peccaries (family tayassuidae) and pigs (family suidae) form the suborder suina within the order cetartiodactyla. So technically they are close. In fact peccaries are the group from which pigs evolved. More importantly they do very similar things within the environment. Both feed on similar foods. Both find that food with their noses creating similar distubances. They are hunted by similar predators. That seems pretty similar to me.
@@tadblackington1676 sorry, but you’re still wrong. Javelina and hogs are NOT RELATED.
Why does everyone think that covering up the talking with music is good! If I wanted to hear music I would go to a music video! All you do when you put music on here is make it hard to hear the talking!
Don't forget the Canadian Super Hog!
Just boggled at :33 mark with the old photo. Those two women look so well groomed sitting in front of a dilapidated, cracked, cold house that looks to be made of manure and mud with muck all around them. Talk about grace and dignity.
I shot a pig that was it to 400lb my winch broke when I was trying to move it with utv. So we had to cut it on the spot. They’re good eating you need to try it.
I think you have not spent much time in the woods. The average weight of a wild hog in Texas is well over 200 lb. I have personally shot pigs that weighed more than 500 lb. And yes they are very aggressive. They are territorial. They are competing for food and they are extremely territorial. to three or four hundred pound hog is not afraid of a man. from personal experience I can tell you this
150Lb? We got a 220Lb and it wasn't even the biggest one in the group.
Thats bcuz its eating really good bro. i bet its on either a farm area or a deer plot huh?
Its eating good for sure. Most farm areas especially the Corn Belt have an abundance of food. Hogs will even eat cow poo if it has enough grain in it.
I think he said the "average" size is about 150. I have seen larger ones as well and have even killed larger than 150 lbs. But those bigger than 150 are fewer in number.
Not size but numbers is the issue. One of the most important points in the video is regarding reproduction. A pig can reproduce @ 6 mos/ 6-15+- piglets per litter/gestation period 114 days/ they can produce 3 litters per year. Run those numbers from a single sow & that there are estimated 2.6 million in the state off Texas alone.
Average also means that with one foot in a bucket of scalding hot water and the other in a bucket of ice water, you should be comfortable. Mean is a more reliable measurement.
Can they be sold for food?
Always make sure you have a good meat thermometer. With these type of pigs better to cook to 160 degrees F.
How traditional methods helped you to minimise the number of wild pigs?
Farmers in Utah were complaining about the elk knocking over their fences, and getting into their haystacks.
Fish & Game decided to have a late archery elk hunt in the Sanpete valley. Some friends drove up there and spotted some elk. They ask the farmer, can we trespass and hunt these problem elk? Sure you can said the farmer,
but it will cost you $8000 bucks!
Think the same thing is happening with the pig problem.
GREEDY LAND OWNERS WONT LET PEOPLE HUNT!
gonna have breakfast for dinner in a few minutes. Eggs, bacon, sausage, ham...and biscuits of course....Love that pork.
Yea are you seriously overweight ?, USA, country full of obese, gluttonous Feral's, I'm talking about humans here, not wild Pigs. Hahahahahaha
I've cought plenty over 200 lbs that 150 is in Oklahoma not the gulf coast
Are they safe to eat?
Are they in pa
A wild pig charged me in Florida, it stopped sniffed my leg and ran off.
A question I've asked on several of those hog shooting videos and haven't gotten an answer to yet is this: When hunting them down, do they try to take out the sows (esp. the alpha) on the first shot or concentrate on the boar? Shoot ten boars and others take their places; shoot 10 sows and you've put at least a scratch in the problem.
You are correct.
Unfortunately most hunters want tusks as a trophy.
Also, they are constantly moving in a group. You try to shoot th one that gives you the best target. So, you cant pick all th time.
You should try it.
Help the environment.
Depends on how you're hunting if you're hunting for food you want the one that gives you the most meat, if you're hunting for population control you go for the females, and if you're hunting for trophies you go for the large males.
Not going to lie, I live in CA & all these landowners dnt reach out to hunters to control these things.
Hog-ziller was eating the protein pellets from a catfish farm thats why he got so big
Excellent video and very informative. The trap at the end will put a decent dent in their numbers I suppose. Only if more ppl do it. LOL. Other than that, lock and load.
Corral Trapping is so expensive you can barely afford to buy the traps.
Phillip Martin Oh wow ! I didn't know that. Well, I suppose one just pick off as many as possible. 😊
It is that easy for a wild hog to get that big because of the vast amount of farm lands were the pigs can find the high-value nutrition they need to grow that big. He needs to rethink his answer.
I lik'em. Along with Feral Dogs roaming the countryside attacking people. Nature fights back against Man.
but wildlife management dept of your local state will not allow you to hunt them all year long, without limit. Geeee, I wonder why?
If state governments put a bounty on these pests, you could almost eradicate them.
i think they did that in Arizona and well... lets just say the hogs suffer from critical existence failure
The bounty is never enough to make a difference.
So if they are feral domestic pigs how come they can run so fast. Domestic pigs aren't fast runners
They have been hybridized and genetically modified over the years.
At least they are keeping human busy!
I wonder if a person could make a living hunting these?
Ya certainly wouldn’t go hungry
The wild hog needs to be paid reparations
We should hire Bigfeet to cull the feral hogs.
Captain Roger Steve's mission to save the world from hogs xD
They named a car after DeSoto they should have named the entire species DeSotoSwine.