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15-11-2006, 10:49pm
What a crock. Feral pigs are an introduced species in plague numbers that not only harm farmland but the bush as well.
I am not a hunter and have never shot at anything other than a tin can once when I was a teenager. I do not understand the attraction of hunting and shooting things but be fair these things are a pest. This is from the Australian gov. web page.
Once established, colonies of feral pigs build up rapidly in many areas. Estimates of population size vary between 3.5 million and 23.5 million, inhabiting 38% of Australia, but their distribution and abundance can vary markedly from year to year according to environmental conditions. Feral pigs are opportunistic omnivores that prefer green vegetation, a wide variety of animal material, fruits and grain. Other foods include underground, starch-rich plant material such as roots and bulbs. They will also take fungi, earthworms, snails, eggs of ground nesting birds, turtle eggs, lambs and carrion. Like domestic pigs, feral pigs need a diet high in protein (more than 15%) in order to breed and raise their young. Feral pigs cause agricultural damage through predation of newborn lambs, reduction in crop yields, damage to fences and water sources, and competition with stock for feed by consuming or damaging pasture. They also are considered a major threat to stock as a potential carrier of exotic diseases, with the major concern being their role as a reservoir for Foot-And-Mouth Disease should it ever become established in Australia or New Zealand. However, they are also an economic resource for game meat, an industry that is worth approximately $20 million a year. Poisoning, primarily using 1080 poison in grain or meat baits, is used in rural communities to manage the damage due to pigs. It requires appropriate free-feeding with non-toxic bait to attract pigs before the poison bait is used. Free-feeding also helps to reduce the risk of loss to non-target animals. Shooting from helicopters is efficient and provides a quick knockdown to protect susceptible enterprises from short-term damage. Pig populations can recover rapidly between shooting and poisoning episodes. Shooting from the ground, with or without dogs, is generally considered to play an insignificant role in damage control except where it is intensively conducted on small accessible populations.
Keep shootin em Glen and Ray and tell the tree hugging do gooders to f*** off..
Bruce
N2O no laughing matter
Edited by: Blackzook at: 15/11/06 23:53
I am not a hunter and have never shot at anything other than a tin can once when I was a teenager. I do not understand the attraction of hunting and shooting things but be fair these things are a pest. This is from the Australian gov. web page.
Once established, colonies of feral pigs build up rapidly in many areas. Estimates of population size vary between 3.5 million and 23.5 million, inhabiting 38% of Australia, but their distribution and abundance can vary markedly from year to year according to environmental conditions. Feral pigs are opportunistic omnivores that prefer green vegetation, a wide variety of animal material, fruits and grain. Other foods include underground, starch-rich plant material such as roots and bulbs. They will also take fungi, earthworms, snails, eggs of ground nesting birds, turtle eggs, lambs and carrion. Like domestic pigs, feral pigs need a diet high in protein (more than 15%) in order to breed and raise their young. Feral pigs cause agricultural damage through predation of newborn lambs, reduction in crop yields, damage to fences and water sources, and competition with stock for feed by consuming or damaging pasture. They also are considered a major threat to stock as a potential carrier of exotic diseases, with the major concern being their role as a reservoir for Foot-And-Mouth Disease should it ever become established in Australia or New Zealand. However, they are also an economic resource for game meat, an industry that is worth approximately $20 million a year. Poisoning, primarily using 1080 poison in grain or meat baits, is used in rural communities to manage the damage due to pigs. It requires appropriate free-feeding with non-toxic bait to attract pigs before the poison bait is used. Free-feeding also helps to reduce the risk of loss to non-target animals. Shooting from helicopters is efficient and provides a quick knockdown to protect susceptible enterprises from short-term damage. Pig populations can recover rapidly between shooting and poisoning episodes. Shooting from the ground, with or without dogs, is generally considered to play an insignificant role in damage control except where it is intensively conducted on small accessible populations.
Keep shootin em Glen and Ray and tell the tree hugging do gooders to f*** off..
Bruce
N2O no laughing matter
Edited by: Blackzook at: 15/11/06 23:53