Farm Couple Attacked By Domestic Boar Hog
05-17-2016, 08:47 AM
#11
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 170
By some accounts — http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/...obs/index.html — Farming & Ranching is more than twice as dangerous (in number of occupational deaths) than police work!
07-21-2016, 08:30 PM
#13
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: N. Illinois
Posts: 527
Hog Skin
Most wild hogs would rather run than fight, but there are exceptions.
Domesticated Hogs can also be dangerous, notional and have little fear of humans.
I dated a girl whose father owned a hog farm. He warned me about certain hogs, which ones to avoid. Some where friendly, some weren't.
I watched a Sow with piglets, in an outside pen, eat a four foot Timber Rattler. This Rattler was at lest 12 inches in diameter. The Rattler struck at her a couple times, she bit it once and swallowed it pretty much whole, jiffy quick, chomp, chomp, chomp and it was gone. I was astounded. I was thinking of running to my truck to get my shotgun, but she took care of business before I could even react. The bites didn't seem to bother her any.
Domesticated Hogs can also be dangerous, notional and have little fear of humans.
I dated a girl whose father owned a hog farm. He warned me about certain hogs, which ones to avoid. Some where friendly, some weren't.
I watched a Sow with piglets, in an outside pen, eat a four foot Timber Rattler. This Rattler was at lest 12 inches in diameter. The Rattler struck at her a couple times, she bit it once and swallowed it pretty much whole, jiffy quick, chomp, chomp, chomp and it was gone. I was astounded. I was thinking of running to my truck to get my shotgun, but she took care of business before I could even react. The bites didn't seem to bother her any.
11-13-2016, 07:48 AM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: North Texas
Posts: 242
I don't know about hog skin being 1/2" thick. It certainly isn't on the legs and face. I think a lot of folks consider the skin to be the skin and the layer of fat and connective tissue underneath it, which can be a 1/2" think or more, but only part of it is skin. Combined, it does all help protect the hog.
It does do a good job of protecting the hog from bites. The skin will still be damaged by the bite, but because the venom likely won't make it to the blood stream, the damage is quite limited.
It does do a good job of protecting the hog from bites. The skin will still be damaged by the bite, but because the venom likely won't make it to the blood stream, the damage is quite limited.
