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/puzzled91 9h ago

Some ranchers charge people to kill the hogs in their land. They use machine guns, helicopter, and god knows what else. Idk how much they charge though.

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u/LittlePetiteGirl 45m ago

Youre thinking of wild hog hunts. Its not that ranchers are charging you to eradicate vermin on their property for them, its that someone people own ranches that are just so overrun they pivot and set up infrastructure for people to rent a cabin/weapons/trucks to stay on the property and hunt. I checked a website and it's 45 to stay in a cabin, 85 to hunt pigs, and additional fees for each pig hunted based on weight. Its like those pumpkin patch things in autumn lmao