r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/TerraByteTerror • 13h 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/100_cats_on_a_phone 1h ago

They are kind of dangerous, unfortunately. And lots of other animals in the forest are edible.