wild boar

Old Boar

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Location
West Wales
I never tried to tag one for two reasons, I like living, and they have smallish ears and would rip the tags out in the scrub- they were slap marked, which was quick and easy. As they are classed as game, it is legal to shoot them on the farm, so maybe whereever this one came from, they did not see the need to tag or slap. A mature male may get to 20 stone (280lb?) but it would be unusual on a boar farm to have more than one boar (they fight rip each other apart) and commercially they are killed out at around 60kg (9.448 stone).
It has been recorded that they can travel 20 miles in a day.

The picture is of a warthog - a completely different animal!!!
 

Yosemite Sam

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Location
Wiltshire
Unless it escaped from a farm I have doubts that it was a wild boar. I've never heard of them in this area. More likely to be a monk jack I would think. Still very sad tale
 

Old Boar

Member
Location
West Wales
If you have a wild boar is automatically the male of the species, or do you have a wild boar boar and wild boar sow?

Wild Boar is the breed, so yes, Wild Boar boar and Wild Boar sow. Only the males grow the tusks which are visible after around 2 years old, and continue to grow. They grind the lower and upper tusks together to sharpen them, a sound similar to running a comb down a blackboard, and they can be needle sharp. The females have a good set of teeth, but not prominant tusks - they kill an animal by rolling it over and slashing along the belly line so the guts fall out.
Loading one of my boars for sale into a big cattle lorry, it cleared the lorry gates with no problem. If they want to get out, they do. I had a stand off electric wire at the bottom of the fence which helps. They can be tamed, as much as a feral cat can be, but the wild bit is always there!
 

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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