Wild Boars Wicklow

allez

Just a heads up was spinning up from powerscourt to military road the other day and low and behold, passed a group of wild boar piglets on the road side. As far as I am aware the parents are pretty aggressive and protective! So watch out for em if you're up that way.

Anyone else seen anything like that around the area or am I just going mad in the head?

Raam

We will all have to mind our bacon out there now.

Zyzz

What a boar..

OldBean

I'll be puddin' the foot down on the way up to Military Rd. so.

carthoris

Raam wrote: »

We will all have to mind our bacon out there now.

Ah get out of that, puns are just so passe and boaring ...

OldBean

carthoris wrote: »

puns are just so passe and boaring ...

Hogwash.

daragh_

s'nout to get excited about....








I'll get my coat.

Hmmzis

Mmmm... Wild boar, yummy. The only issue is that a lot of them have some nasty parasites and the meat has to be checked very carefully. The liver is my favourite, the belly and ribs are a close second. Grilled, fried or stewed it's very delicious.

allez

They will steal your bikes, dont say you were not warned haha

ericl

allez wrote: »

They will steal your bikes, dont say you were not warned haha

Gimme your bike..

Chiparus

allez wrote: »

Just a heads up was spinning up from powerscourt to military road the other day and low and behold, passed a group of wild boar piglets on the road side. As far as I am aware the parents are pretty aggressive and protective! So watch out for em if you're up that way.

Anyone else seen anything like that around the area or am I just going mad in the head?

Sounds like you are telling porkies.

cdaly_

Hmmzis wrote: »

Mmmm... Wild boar, yummy. The only issue is that a lot of them have some nasty parasites and the meat has to be checked very carefully. The liver is my favourite, the belly and ribs are a close second. Grilled, fried or stewed it's very delicious.

Only one way to serve wild boar...

morana

allez wrote: »

Just a heads up was spinning up from powerscourt to military road the other day and low and behold, passed a group of wild boar piglets on the road side. As far as I am aware the parents are pretty aggressive and protective! So watch out for em if you're up that way.

Anyone else seen anything like that around the area or am I just going mad in the head?

could they be feral pigs?

I am not aware of any wild boar in Ireland.

Chips Lovell

They were extinct, but there's been a lot of sightings in the past few years. Apparently some hunters have illegally reintroduced them.

Bloggsie

allez wrote: »

They will steal your bikes, dont say you were not warned haha

never mind them taking your bike, its you they are after, the bunch of savages! they are related to the most nefarious pig of all, Porky O'Pig, he "emigrated" was transported to Van Deimens land years ago & his far removed relations are back in Ireland looking for revenge on any unwitting passerby they come across. Be afraid!

fits

Report it to NPWS

allez

Hopefully a co2 canister and spare tube could work as a suitable defensive weapon

Seaneh

allez wrote: »

Just a heads up was spinning up from powerscourt to military road the other day and low and behold, passed a group of wild boar piglets on the road side. As far as I am aware the parents are pretty aggressive and protective! So watch out for em if you're up that way.

Anyone else seen anything like that around the area or am I just going mad in the head?

Contact the department for the environment or Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, boars aren't native and have been introduced by arseholes as something to hunt, they destroy farm land and native woodlands.

Reporting sightings is important.

eeeee

Seaneh wrote: »

Contact the department for the environment or Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, boars aren't native and have been introduced by arseholes as something to hunt, they destroy farm land and native woodlands.

Reporting sightings is important.

They spread TB and amongst other diseases amongst livestock, destroy fencing and are aggressive too. Should never have been brought in, such a stupid stupid stupid reason to introduce an aggressive species. They should be culled completely, they have no place here.
Report where and when they were seen. Or tell someone you know with a gun (not all hunters are brain dead foreign-species-introducing arsewipes)

Seaneh

They are vermin/invasive so are shoot all year, if you see one and you're a hunter grab your gun and take it and it's whole troop out but make sure you keep your distance.

eeeee

Seaneh wrote: »

They are vermin/invasive so are shoot all year, if you see one and you're a hunter grab your gun and take it and it's whole troop out but make sure you keep your distance.

Sadly I am a crap shot! I have a number of family members who are awesome shots, and specialize in vermin. One in particular is incredible-I think he wins the vermin every year in the gun club. Sadly he is midlands based, if they ever make it down there they won't last long :cool: I think he should spend his impending honeymoon in Wicklow after boar-I'll make the suggestion

rollingscone

Seaneh wrote: »

They are vermin/invasive so are shoot all year, if you see one and you're a hunter grab your gun and take it and it's whole troop out but make sure you keep your distance.

Are they the same species or at least genus as the extinct indigenous population?

Seaneh

rollingscone wrote: »

Are they the same species or at least genus as the extinct indigenous population?

I have no clue but I doubt it.

Chiparus

No probably are the same species of boar made extinct, ( along with the wolf). But are not to be reintroduced because modern agriculture trumps wildlife.

eeeee

Chiparus wrote: »

modern agriculture trumps wildlife.

Increasing urbanisation and changing diets change the environment :rolleyes:

rollingscone

gadetra wrote: »

Increasing urbanisation and changing diets change the environment :rolleyes:

Although I have proposed fencing off the ghost estates as wolf habitats...as ahem a way of stopping wire stripping.

eeeee

rollingscone wrote: »

Although I have proposed fencing off the ghost estates as wolf habitats...as ahem a way of stopping wire stripping.

Like an Irish Chernobyl? That makes longford an exclusion zone. Which may be the most useful thing it can be :pac:

morana

its department of agriculture or pm me and I will take it.



Always on duty!

Chips Lovell

Wild boar sausages on the menu at Chez Morana tonight?

bazza1

I'm sending in Luis Suarez...problem solved!

morana

Oscar Gateaux wrote: »

Wild boar sausages on the menu at Chez Morana tonight?

we're veggie here!

loyatemu

they've been accidentally reintroduced in the UK - possibly the same has happened here.

bambergbike

Hmmzis wrote: »

Mmmm... Wild boar, yummy. The only issue is that a lot of them have some nasty parasites and the meat has to be checked very carefully.

Round my way they also wave a Geiger counter over the carcass because the boar dine on radioactive fungi when they're not munching their way through tasty crops.

Chiparus

They can be dangerous ;

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fcb_1403704863

minterno

loyatemu wrote: »

they've been accidentally reintroduced in the UK - possibly the same has happened here.

This was no accident,I was told by a guy who hunts that he knew some people that had bought in some of these vermin,I was told about it over 12 months ago and the sole purpose is to provide sport for these morons,I don't have names,if I had I would have notified whoever needed to be that it was going on,this was in Wicklow somewhere,its too easy to smuggle things in to this country,the checks on people and vehiciles are very thin on the ground,

Ole Rodrigo

Always fancied the idea of a wild boar on a spit roast, with some BBQ sauce, porcini mushrooms and chipped roasties in goose fat.

Where did you say you saw them again ? Starvin.

Bloggsie

Chiparus wrote: »

They can be dangerous ;

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fcb_1403704863

As i posted earlier, them hoors can be lethal, ive heard some of them have ninja training!

monkeyslayer

Saw three wild boars on the road around djouce this eve, one of em was massive!

Bloggsie

monkeyslayer wrote: »

Saw three wild boars on the road around djouce this eve, one of em was massive!

Is it hanging on the end of a meat hook ready for the oven with an apple for its gob yet?

The Ging and I

The only problem for cyclists is hitting one on a fast decent in the evening time. Cars hitting them come off badly also. They are a major problem in France and despite being hunted extensively are not disappearing.

monkeyslayer

Bloggsie wrote: »

Is it hanging on the end of a meat hook ready for the oven with an apple for its gob yet?

I think i'd have needed a bigger multi tool

slavedave

Fortuitously, there was a documentary on one of the Sky channels last night (Hunt for Hogzilla - if you can catch it again) that featured a 270kg wild boar that was terrorising an area in the States. After watching that, if I ever see a boar in Wicklow I may well set my fastest Strava segment right there and then! Nasty creatures.

JJJJNR

I've yet to see wild boar myself, I seen a white peacock this evening though.

saccades

allez wrote: »

Just a heads up was spinning up from powerscourt to military road the other day and low and behold, passed a group of wild boar piglets on the road side. As far as I am aware the parents are pretty aggressive and protective! So watch out for em if you're up that way.

Anyone else seen anything like that around the area or am I just going mad in the head?

Be surprised - that's lamping central around there - not much lasts long.

check_six

saccades wrote: »

Be surprised - that's lamping central around there - not much lasts long.

Tell me what exactly is "lamping"? I'm kind of assuming it's hunting with a bright light at night, but what is it exactly and why is it frowned upon?

iwillhtfu

Ever heard the saying like a deer in headlights.

Same effect shine a bright light directly at an animal and it freezes leaving an easy shot for any would be "hunter" usually sitting in a jeep.

ford2600

check_six wrote: »

Tell me what exactly is "lamping"? I'm kind of assuming it's hunting with a bright light at night, but what is it exactly and why is it frowned upon?

Shooting in the dark with a rifle is pretty dangerous. You can't know what's behind object or where bullet will end up. If shooting across a valley bullet could travel a long distance.

Wild animals, especially deer, foxes, will stop and stare at a powerful light at night. Not much sport to it.

cfuserkildare

Apparently it only takes 6 weeks for a domesticated pig to revert back to Feral Pig/Wild Boar.
That includes the tusks growing at a mental rate, and the hair becomes thicker and stiffer.

check_six

iwillhtfu wrote: »

Ever heard the saying like a deer in headlights.

Same effect shine a bright light directly at an animal and it freezes leaving an easy shot for any would be "hunter" usually sitting in a jeep.

Well, "rabbit in the headlights" I've heard of... but I know exactly what you mean. Thank you.

iwillhtfu

check_six wrote: »

Well, "rabbit in the headlights" I've heard of... but I know exactly what you mean. Thank you.

Same same but different.