Hehe, maybe if it were Trump. X-DDoes that really sound like something a government-type would consider doing?.....
Idk, wonder what Gov Abbot would say about it....
Hehe, maybe if it were Trump. X-DDoes that really sound like something a government-type would consider doing?.....
Ironic that a hunting culture that could wipe out buffalo to near extinction, and almost the same with deer, ducks and geese, can't handle a feral hog problem until it begs being "managed" before the government steps in.
At first glance seems symptomatic of government regulation and intervention making a problem worse?
There isn't a county in Texas that doesn't have a hog problem. A county by county system is problematic because people will simply kill in one country and claim the bounty in another. So it might as well be a state bounty. That way, it doesn't matter what county you are in, you are eligible for the $.
Pigs do not breed like rabbits, but they breed faster than other cloven-hooved mammals in North America. While feral pigs could potentially breed nearly three times a year, they generally only breed about 3 times every 2 years. Cottontails can have up to 7 litters a year, but generally only have 3-4 litters per year. The real difference here is that cottontails have something like a 90-95% mortality rate inside the first year of life and hogs have only a 25% mortality rate in the first year (the rabbit mortality information I recall from classes on mammalogy and the hog information comes from http://articles.extension.org/pages/63660/feral-hog-population-biology ).
It is illegal to distribute feral hog meat for public consumption if a hog has not been first inspected while alive before being slaughtered, and then inspected after slaughter, just like with domestic hogs. Hog meat for those in need would have to come from hogs trapped and taken to an approved facility (they are numerous such facilities all over the state) while still alive. So this would not apply to hunters.
Interesting...So what exactly do they inspect before slaughter? Just a visual on the hog, or....?