And don't forget Medicaid and free public education for the rapidly growing number of young ones! The good news on that last front is school lunches shouldn't be problematic: they'll eat almost anything.
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- Tue May 21, 2024 9:26 am
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Re: Kentucky Bans Hog Hunting
Also begs the question... Removed to where, exactly? Does Kentucky have some 200,000-acre dedicated feral hog preserve with an impenetrable fence around it? And, what, they have game wardens who bring in feed and take care of the animals? I don't think so.
Any state that decides to put feral hogs on some sort of protected species list is going to be literally overrun in a decade. The critters have a short gestation period of about 115 days, and sows are sexually mature at 6-8 months of age and average 4-6 piglets per litter. Under favorable conditions I think that generally equates to two litters per year or a little longer.
So two hogs have 6 piglets. Seven months later the sow and 3 female piglets (assuming half the litter is female) have 24 new arrivals, and the total is up to 32 including the original parents. We keep that up and 7 months after that we can have a grand total of 128 hogs, 126 added to the population in just 14 months.
If you started with a sounder that had 10 females instead of just one, in 14 months you could have 1,260 new hogs rooting around.
"Wildlife experts are encouraging landowners to instead contact the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to have the animals removed."
Yeah. Get back to me on that. The new movie Planet of the Pigs will be in theaters near you in 2026.