Funny, it is all the rude and unethical hunters who I always considered to be the pest.
Pigs are just a animal doing what animals do. Guess you would have also been in part of the buffalo slaughter back in the day because they were a pest to the railroad companies. Pretty sad.
Exactly, and what pigs do is ruin fields of corn and beans and grass patches. They tear up feeders and cause erosion. They probably eat turkey eggs and will probably spread desease if left unchecked.
Just on a few hundred acres of swamp land we prolly catch and kill at least 50 every yr. We eat some, sell some , and just kill some. If we could get rid of them period we would but it just ain't gonna happen. Just about the time you think their thinned out a bit their back again in droves.
If the buffalo bred at 6 mnths of age and had two or three litters a yr of 6 calves they would prolly still be here to. Buffalo were a natural part of the environment and not an introduced species such as the fire ant, the cock roach and the feral hog.