For one. The way this tends to work is you do that a couple times and the hogs move. That is sort of the point.
It’s only the females and young that crowd up into sounders as well, most of the males live solitary or in small groups of 2 or 3. Spread out through a larger territory. The practical way to cull those, and small sounders. Is with dogs and traps.
The other is that we know it doesn’t add up. After more than a century of hunting and culling being the primary control mechanism. It hasn’t even slowed things down.
A feral sow can have 2 litters of up to 12 piglets a year. And with few natural predators, a whole hell of a lot of them make it. They hit breeding age at 6 months.
Populations can double in as short a time as 4 months. Any given population can go through a couple of rounds of that a year.
The main reasons we hear about hunting and culling as this be all end all hog solution. Are that in a lot of areas it’s the only thing anyone’s doing. And because the 2nd Amendment crowd have hit on it as a practical justification for suit case nukes.
Probably also because the “Outdoor” industry (ie Firearms industry) is really into promoting recreation hog hunting.
Do they deserve comment?
