Everyone lets think about this for a minute or two. Why cant a wild hog grow to 1000 pounds? In my honest opinion a wild/feral hog will hardly go much over 600 pounds. I am not saying it cant or wont happen and here is why.
A feral boar does a few things that make us men almost want to be pigs,they eat and they fight and they try to have sex. In doing this they move alot they run and they get alot of excercise. A male boar does simular to a buck in marking his territory and his rubs and wallows. He generally will be a loner unless a sow is in heat. If you see a big boar with a sounder of hogs its because there is a sow thats in eat. Now a feral hog thats been wormed and put in a small pen can grow big but usually will not get much over 500 pounds and thats with no exercise. And this can take years. I know Kevin used to raise some trophy boars and he had some very nice ones and they were fed good,and I never saw them get over 400 pounds.So if a boar in the wild is making his rounds, eating and marking he is on the move.
This said how can a big boar like the kid shot get so big,well they are all over the country, places like Owens and Jimmy Dean have breeders for their meat,they want a big healthy pig for butcher.They want it fast. They want to pay the least amount for the most profit. So if a litter of non wild hogs was 8 piglets..4 boars and for sows. Do you keep all four boars, no you cut them and grow them.Now you cant cut all of them becase you need the sperm to still have pigs. So in a pen by himself is a big stud boar, he is there for one purpose to breed,he eats daily and only gets exercise when the sows are in heat and he is not in battle for the sow and doesnt have to chase her acroos the county and fight others off for her to give in. So he breeds and ho gets fed and wormed and injected with hormones to increase the hogs weight and size. Well he then gets to big to breed he is hurting sows and his weight is enormous..you cant cut him because he is to old and it will then kill him ,you cant eat him,so what do you do,You try and sell him.
He gets sold for a whopping 6 cents a pound or so to a highfence ranch. I am not against high fence ranches at all so dont take me wrong,,I dont think that any that I sell pigs to have done this. Now you take a place like Alabama who doesnt know a wild hog from a potbelly and wouulllaaa you got a big hog to hunt. Alabamas hog population is nothing compared to Texas and its illegal to move and release them.so see what I am saying.
I had this on my mind since the story first came out so I am giving what I know and have seen.Any questions I will try and help or answer.
A feral boar does a few things that make us men almost want to be pigs,they eat and they fight and they try to have sex. In doing this they move alot they run and they get alot of excercise. A male boar does simular to a buck in marking his territory and his rubs and wallows. He generally will be a loner unless a sow is in heat. If you see a big boar with a sounder of hogs its because there is a sow thats in eat. Now a feral hog thats been wormed and put in a small pen can grow big but usually will not get much over 500 pounds and thats with no exercise. And this can take years. I know Kevin used to raise some trophy boars and he had some very nice ones and they were fed good,and I never saw them get over 400 pounds.So if a boar in the wild is making his rounds, eating and marking he is on the move.
This said how can a big boar like the kid shot get so big,well they are all over the country, places like Owens and Jimmy Dean have breeders for their meat,they want a big healthy pig for butcher.They want it fast. They want to pay the least amount for the most profit. So if a litter of non wild hogs was 8 piglets..4 boars and for sows. Do you keep all four boars, no you cut them and grow them.Now you cant cut all of them becase you need the sperm to still have pigs. So in a pen by himself is a big stud boar, he is there for one purpose to breed,he eats daily and only gets exercise when the sows are in heat and he is not in battle for the sow and doesnt have to chase her acroos the county and fight others off for her to give in. So he breeds and ho gets fed and wormed and injected with hormones to increase the hogs weight and size. Well he then gets to big to breed he is hurting sows and his weight is enormous..you cant cut him because he is to old and it will then kill him ,you cant eat him,so what do you do,You try and sell him.
He gets sold for a whopping 6 cents a pound or so to a highfence ranch. I am not against high fence ranches at all so dont take me wrong,,I dont think that any that I sell pigs to have done this. Now you take a place like Alabama who doesnt know a wild hog from a potbelly and wouulllaaa you got a big hog to hunt. Alabamas hog population is nothing compared to Texas and its illegal to move and release them.so see what I am saying.
I had this on my mind since the story first came out so I am giving what I know and have seen.Any questions I will try and help or answer.
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