Irish indo article about wild boar sightings

cavan shooter

Picked up a copy of the indo this morning and apparently a sighting of boar has been made in the knockmealdown mts.

Was there a farm for them to excape from or did somebody "release them back into the wild".

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/snout-and-about--wild-boar-is-back-1864703.html

CJhaughey

Light brown suggests that it was a recent escapee or a escaped farm pig.
Duroc or Tamworth is my bet;)

Grizzly 45

Or it's just media silly season again..:)
Remarkably quiet this year...No big cats,great white sharks or other exotic critters.Must be the weather.:p

ayapatrick

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Or it's just media silly season again..:)
Remarkably quiet this year...No big cats,great white sharks or other exotic critters.Must be the weather.:p

i dont know if its unusual but there was killer whales pictured lately

Dusty87

ayapatrick wrote: »

i dont know if its unusual but there was killer whales pictured lately

Seen that too. As grizzly said it is remarkably quiet this year, maybe its getting harder to film dogs moving like big cats nowadays

meathstevie

Wild boar and large ears ? Compared to most domestic breeds a wild boar's ears are rather small and they stand up from the skull unlike most domestic breeds that have large hanging ears.

Dusty87

Did you know that a domestic pig wil change the shape of its skull and grow hair when it escapes and a wild boar captured wil lose its hair and its skull wil change more rounded. Only animals to be able to morph this way. Seen it on Discovery channel. I thought it was interesting anyways

EPointer=Birdss

Dusty87 wrote: »

Did you know that a domestic pig wil change the shape of its skull and grow hair when it escapes and a wild boar captured wil lose its hair and its skull wil change more rounded. Only animals to be able to morph this way. Seen it on Discovery channel. I thought it was interesting anyways

Saw that show! If I hadn't i would of thought you were mad! They can evolve back to boars in a few generations or something. The head changes shape for foraging purposes...

tiny-nioclas

Its hogzilla!! it might be a domestic pig gone feral, they become wild again very quickly, they grow tusks, hair, flat, snout etc..... the knockmealdowns arent too far away for me!

CJhaughey

tiny-nioclas wrote: »

Its hogzilla!! it might be a domestic pig gone feral, they become wild again very quickly, they grow tusks, hair, flat, snout etc..... the knockmealdowns arent too far away for me!

Best sharpen the knife and get the dawgs ready then!

Dusty87

EPointer=Birdss wrote: »

Saw that show! If I hadn't i would of thought you were mad! They can evolve back to boars in a few generations or something. The head changes shape for foraging purposes...

Was it a matter of generations. I thought it was quicker. Stil pretty cool all the same.

maglite

I hear the cries out swine flu risk comming in a tabloid.

jwshooter

it could have been a few members of the government out trying to root up votes.

there is two of them with large ears , well large every thing else and big snouts.

crowsnightmare

jwshooter wrote: »

it could have been a few members of the government out trying to root up votes.

Yea & a lot of them grow tusks, hide in heavy cover & root around in s"!$e once the election is over!

No6

jwshooter wrote: »

it could have been a few members of the government out trying to root up votes.

there is two of them with large ears , well large every thing else and big snouts.

Jesus lets hope they dont call a snap election during the hunting season some of us might mistake them for wild Boar and open fire!!!!:D:D

crowsnightmare

CJhaughey wrote: »

Best sharpen the knife and get the dawgs ready then!

Leave them alone for a few years & we may have a Paddy-Hogzilla!

4gun

No6 wrote: »

Jesus lets hope they dont call a snap election during the hunting season some of us might mistake them for wild Boar and open fire!!!!:D:D

don't think it would be a mistake:D

jwshooter

4gun wrote: »

don't think it would be a mistake:D

ya would want one fuxking BIG spit to get one of them onto it .

thats of course if there in the country at all.

hope there not holidaying any where near a beach where whaling in still practiced.

cavan shooter

anyway...trying to steer this back on track......I would be surprised if it was a true boar (not a politician) as I didnt think we had any farms and that would lead then to some idiot bringing two in to release for the benefit of nature:eek:

Dusty87

I think theres a thread on here about them being seen somewhere else in ireland a while ago. Seemingly they make good eating. Afaik there was a wild boar farm here. Cant remember where i heard that but i always believed it.

jwshooter

sky528 program about wild hogs in the us

Dusty87

jwshooter wrote: »

sky528 program about wild hogs in the us

Whats that on chorus??

300winmag

a guy i know shot one for the department latley ,it was wild bore for sure belived to bo let out to breed ,there are more in the same area,they breed at a serious rate.

cavan shooter

rumour has it around us that two lads (one I know) brought two in for that reason. When I put it to him he winked at me and said he knew nothing of it???

I think thats reckless we will wait and see

foxhunter

Wasn't there a woods down near Waterford somewhere lately that the dept went in and culled a whole herd of them.
I heard it started with lads with lurchers hunting them and the dept heard about it and cleaned out the whole lot.

Dusty87

It was waterford or wexford i remember them being 'sighted'. Would lurchers be up for the job? Any links to the cull or the one shot??

300winmag

tink it was waterford aera , he wont tell me the exact aera the dept rang him and asked him to shoot it , they were with him when he shot it , shot with 243 100gr had to hit him twice. both shots in the boiler hse.:eek:

alan123

I have a few rifle slugs for just such a scenario! Those things spread like wild fire if they get out, they wreck the place, and then..... they will have to be "controlled"!!! just like the camels in Austrailia, we will be begged to shoot as many as possible! Im going to buy a crate of apple sauce tomorrow!

300winmag

wild australian camel and apple sauce very nice:D:D:D

kakashka

Dusty87 wrote: »

It was waterford or wexford i remember them being 'sighted'. Would lurchers be up for the job? Any links to the cull or the one shot??

Waterford it was,(doubt you'll find a link to any of it and wish it was just 1!) on Coilte land with aggressive opposition from the so called hunters responsible(who arrived during cull),Garda arrived but unfortunately no arrests!!!

J.R.

"Recent native planting (9.4%) was recorded more frequently than either recently planted nonnative
broadleaves (8.5%) or non-native conifers (4.8%). This trend was particularly evident in
counties with a history of planting, such as Wicklow, Kildare and Dublin. However, this was
exceeded by the incidence of recent native felling overall (11.9%). This was highest in
Donegal, where 22.5% of sites were affected, and was often associated with construction.

In
a number of counties, including Offaly, Kilkenny, Westmeath and Tipperary, there were
several instances of felling (both legal and illegal) of ash trees for the production of hurleys.

Dumping, generally of domestic rubbish or farm machinery, was noted at 10.4% of sites,
highest in Waterford and Kerry, where over one-third of sites were affected. This activity is
almost certainly under-recorded, however, as dumping was often highly localised within a site,
occurring at one or two points, typically along roads. Dumping of this nature was particularly
prevalent in woodlands on degraded bog or adjoining roads.

Livestock grazing is included here as a management practice. Grazing livestock recorded
included cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, boar and donkeys. Some wild or feral grazers were also
recorded (mainly rabbits/hares, deer and goats); these would not be classed as part of the
management regime of the woodland per se, but rather as part of the natural ecology of the
woodland. Grazing (including both livestock and non-livestock grazers) is discussed in more
detail below.

Livestock grazing was noted at 38.6% of all sites, the most frequent
management type recorded. Cattle were by far the most frequent farm grazers, accounting for
67.6% of all recorded livestock grazing. Sheep were the next most common, present at just
under 23.8% of livestock-grazed sites. Horses were recorded at 8.0% of these sites, with
pigs, boar and donkeys accounting for the remaining 0.6% of sites."


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