Feral hogs, wild cattle etc?

[Ds J]

Has anyone hunted these?

I know of a farm near Fochville where feral hogs were living, and also about a farm near Ventersdorp where cattle had grown wild.

How often and where has it occurred in SA?

[oafpatroll]

A friend who farms near Kroonstad in the Freestate has a European boar problem that he caused when a bunch of the things got out of an enclosure. There's an apparently growing population of them in the area now.

[zguy]

I have heard of a farmer near the Vaal Dam that hosts hunts for Feral / Mixed piggys.
If I recall, you pay per day and you pay to have one of this workers help you, almost like a caddy.

You can whack as many as your heart desires for free. Then either process them or leave them behind for local communities.

They stuff up crops big time.

[Treeman]

they must breed faster 

[oafpatroll]

I read an article some time ago about how quickly domesticated pigs go feral and fundamentally change their appearance. It was just a few generations till they looked like a different species.