Is this a problem now?

Grant · 02-27-2019, 03:24 PM

After seeing such feral swine in both northern Florida and the Great Smokies years ago (early '80s), I started reading up on them. Turns out that (at the time) there were just a few primary population centers in the U.S. where imported European boars had managed to survive, breed with local domestic swine, and thrive. One was in the Tennessee, N.C. border area (Smokies), another was north Florida, and the third was a small pocket in SW New Hampshire.

The first feral pigs in continental N. America escaped the expedition of Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, in 1539–42. Wild pigs that escaped from Spanish colonists in Florida survived in the woods and swamps so well that today some of their descendants represent the only modern examples of old Spanish breeds that've since been lost to domestication.

In the northeastern U.S., New Hampshire is alone in having a feral swine population. Eurasian wild boars escaped from a game preserve many years ago and remain on the loose in the hills of Sullivan County.

That said, I've never seen one in the state, and had no idea they'd moved north (although that's logical).

Keep an eye out -- the LAST thing this state needs is another destructive, invasive exotic species. Don't get me started on rock bass (

), and just pray that the snakeheads and Asian Carp don't find their way into our waters. And then there's zebra mussels...

fatlazyless · 02-27-2019, 07:20 PM

You knows just yesterday, Tuesday, at about 4-pm, there was like a neat, orderly line of 12 different deer, all in a long line, waiting to cross the Meredith Neck Rd, at the brook crossing, down below the beautiful horse farm, there.

It looked like these 12 deer had a plan! They patiently wait for a van, pickup, or larger commercial vehicle to come down the hill, from either direction, as long as it has business lettered signage on the vehicle ...... and then one deer at a time will run out front the moving vehicle just so.... that it gets a secondary or minor hit from the corner bumper ......so's it can go that personal injury, ambulance chaser, attorney-injured client route and collect some easy insurance money.

Is an old, but very DEER way, for these deer to collect some easy money for just a minor leg bruise like that, or something.

And these deer, they was lined up .....just wait'n for their turn ..... to get that insurance action working for them ....... deer, deer, deer ..... all 12 in a row ..... patiently waiting their turn to make some money!

02-27-2019, 03:24 PM	#1
Grant Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Pennsyltuckey, Tuftonboro, Moultonborough Posts: 1,501 Thanks: 377 Thanked 231 Times in 125 Posts	After seeing such feral swine in both northern Florida and the Great Smokies years ago (early '80s), I started reading up on them. Turns out that (at the time) there were just a few primary population centers in the U.S. where imported European boars had managed to survive, breed with local domestic swine, and thrive. One was in the Tennessee, N.C. border area (Smokies), another was north Florida, and the third was a small pocket in SW New Hampshire. The first feral pigs in continental N. America escaped the expedition of Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, in 1539–42. Wild pigs that escaped from Spanish colonists in Florida survived in the woods and swamps so well that today some of their descendants represent the only modern examples of old Spanish breeds that've since been lost to domestication. In the northeastern U.S., New Hampshire is alone in having a feral swine population. Eurasian wild boars escaped from a game preserve many years ago and remain on the loose in the hills of Sullivan County. That said, I've never seen one in the state, and had no idea they'd moved north (although that's logical). Keep an eye out -- the LAST thing this state needs is another destructive, invasive exotic species. Don't get me started on rock bass ( ), and just pray that the snakeheads and Asian Carp don't find their way into our waters. And then there's zebra mussels... __________________ "When I die, please don't let my wife sell my dive gear for what I told her I paid for it."

02-27-2019, 07:20 PM	#2
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,779 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 300 Thanked 1,022 Times in 744 Posts	..... deer, deer, deer, and more deer! You knows just yesterday, Tuesday, at about 4-pm, there was like a neat, orderly line of 12 different deer, all in a long line, waiting to cross the Meredith Neck Rd, at the brook crossing, down below the beautiful horse farm, there. It looked like these 12 deer had a plan! They patiently wait for a van, pickup, or larger commercial vehicle to come down the hill, from either direction, as long as it has business lettered signage on the vehicle ...... and then one deer at a time will run out front the moving vehicle just so.... that it gets a secondary or minor hit from the corner bumper ......so's it can go that personal injury, ambulance chaser, attorney-injured client route and collect some easy insurance money. Is an old, but very DEER way, for these deer to collect some easy money for just a minor leg bruise like that, or something. And these deer, they was lined up .....just wait'n for their turn ..... to get that insurance action working for them ....... deer, deer, deer ..... all 12 in a row ..... patiently waiting their turn to make some money! __________________ ... down and out, liv'n that Walmart side of the lake!