Feral Swine - Washington State

[brandx]

Pigs have been escaping ever since Columbus brought them here (at Queen Isabella's insistence). All the wild hogs we have on our place in the Mississippi Delta are from escaped domestic pigs. People didn't fence them in, I can still remember a house a half mile from us that had yard pigs. Every once in a while a pig would get a wild hair and run away.

A jug, a rocking chair and pigs under the porch.

 

[DrHenley]

Someone mentioned pigs on the loose, it was an old practice in Appalachia to allow pigs to free roam and feed off mast. They notched their ears to identify them when they went to hunt them up.

That's what brought Hatfield and McCoy feud to a head. Floyd Hatfield had a pig that Randolf McCoy claimed had McCoy notches in its ears. When Randolph took Floyd to court, the Justice of the Peace was "Preacher Anse" Hatfield who ruled in favor of Floyd Hatfield based on the testimony of Bill Staton, who was then murdered by Sam and Paris McCoy in retaliation for his testimony. Things spiraled out of control from there.

 

[Psalm7]

Iv heard yhat domestic farm pigs can get lose and with in couple years the offspring start looking and acting like wild boars .
Theres a small moutain community near by that some of the hunters traveled to East TN and caught some wild hogs brought them home and turned them lose . Im in the woods quite a bit and have saw no sign of them being in this part of Middle TN but TWRA say they should be here .
TN has taking the stance that wild hogs can not be hunted but if you own land you can eradicate them . That is supposed to keep hunting groups from spreading the population and bring populations under control .