What interesting creatures live in your garden?

[seedcorn]

What r u using as poisons in New York? Most are blood thinners that have no bad properties on predators.

 

[goatgurl]

@majorcatfish, notice the horns on this guy he was on the trail of 3 does that come thru just before him. and the pigs drive my LGD nuts at night

 

[baymule]

@goatgurl throw out some corn for the pigs and shoot one. Sausage!!

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Not a terrible idea but if you go through with it, you may want to buck the standard hunting rules (or in this case, boar the trend, I assume)and focus on taking out the sows and piglets. Not only will this probably be more effective in the long run vis a vis actually reducing the feral pig population (I'm not a hunter myself, but as I know that in most states feral hogs are considered such a nuisance they are immune from things like seasons and bag limits, I assume they are also immune to regulations about what is and is not "sporting" to shoot) but you'll probably get better results if you were actually planning to eat the resultant kill. Speaking from personal experience, REAL boar (as in flesh from a adult male pig that was never castrated) is VERY much an acquired taste, and not one to acquire easily. There is a reason it is called "Boar taint" and that the stud boar on a farm often has its ear notched (a very old marker for "pig that is not fit to eat") Basically unless you don't find real mutton gamey ENOUGH, you probably won't like boar.

 

[goatgurl]

@baymule been there done that, had her for thanksgiving and oh man was she good. low and slow on the grill.
@Pulsegleaner the feral hogs around here are just out of control. they have not only decimated the wild turkey and quail population and spread disease but they also will kill fawns and my neighbor has lost new born calves to them. lady further over in Oklahoma had her lgd kill by hogs right on her back porch. folks around here trap them, shoot them and try in general to take out as many as they can. the only law i know of that is important is that you cannot transport live hogs. and lol i haven't acquired that boar taste so we always try to get the girls. and young girls at that. the one we had for thanksgiving was about 50# live weight and butchered out about half that. tender and tasty. i still have about half of it in the freezer.

 

[baymule]

Open season on feral hogs and no limit.

 

[Ridgerunner]

No need to be sporty either. They are an invasive species that does a lot of damage. They don't need to be hunted, they need to be removed or at least thinned out. Taking the sows for meat is a good thing.

 

[Nyboy]

Candian geese are very invasive here. They are a danger to planes, poop everywhere, Ny does mass killing of them. Bodies sent to landfill, sad part is goose goes for $65 a bird in supermarket. What a waste.

 

[thistlebloom]

Candian geese are very invasive here. They are a danger to planes, poop everywhere, Ny does mass killing of them. Bodies sent to landfill, sad part is goose goes for $65 a bird in supermarket. What a waste.

Oh!! Maybe you and Cane can work together and start a cottage business!

joking....

 

[Pulsegleaner]

[USER=5139]@Pulsegleaner the feral hogs around here are just out of control. they have not only decimated the wild turkey and quail population and spread disease but they also will kill fawns and my neighbor has lost new born calves to them. lady further over in Oklahoma had her lgd kill by hogs right on her back porch. folks around here trap them, shoot them and try in general to take out as many as they can. the only law i know of that is important is that you cannot transport live hogs. and lol i haven't acquired that boar taste so we always try to get the girls. and young girls at that. the one we had for thanksgiving was about 50# live weight and butchered out about half that. tender and tasty. i still have about half of it in the freezer.[/USER]

I imagine that, objectively, the boars are only really useful if you are planning on taxidermy, or are into scrimshaw (and for the latter, you probably really need to find a TRUE wild boar (as opposed to a hog gone feral, or a mix-breed) to get tusks worth carving.)