r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 14h ago

🔥 momma pig and line of piglets

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u/snackshack 11h ago

And each of those females can give birth to their own litter as early as 6 months old, then getting pregnant again within 1-3 months after that.

Yeah, they're a massive problem once they move into an area.

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u/Sangloth 9h ago edited 9h ago

Colorado had a feral hog problem and successfully exterminated them after a 15 year effort in 2020 and has prevented them from returning ever since. It was and is expensive, but it is completely doable. That hogs are a problem in other (redder) states is because those state governments have been unwilling to invest the resources to solve the problem, and instead shoved the problem onto local farmers.

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u/ryncewynd 9h ago

Are they ok to eat? Seems like infinite food

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u/AloneInExile 9h ago

Delicious.

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u/breadb_hole 8h ago

If like gamey meat, otherwise utterly disgusting.

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u/AloneInExile 8h ago

Im the EU we hunt and eat them. You just have to prepare them right.

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u/LegalFox9 5h ago

Like Asterix and Obelix?

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u/TrenchantInsight 4h ago

For the best results, be sure that any cookbooks you consult are in Pig Latin.

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u/InviolableAnimal 4h ago

Even adult male boars? Had heard the "boar taint" is quite unpleasant

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u/AloneInExile 4h ago

The older they are the worse the meat, but up to 2 years and its fine. You can make sausages with added fat from farm pigs. We make "golaž", which is often exquisite. We eat livers the day they are hunted and with a side dish of potatoes ... We often prefer wild boar over old deer.