SageHill
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You're up and out of the hospital already?!
The journey into the abyss of no return
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SageHill
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HA! They didn't know who they were dealing with! WTG - but do give it a chance to heal up a bit.
Baymule
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I would expect nothing less from you.
Baymule
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Pore lil' ol' boar, he wuz jus' hongry.
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All kidding aside... you are fortunate that you are as agile and strong as you are...
Years ago, there was an older farmer that had hogs for 50+ years..... was feeding one day and a sow took a notion, he slipped and fell.... and they went berserk... killed him and he was badly mangled/eaten when he was found...people said it was the most gruesome thing they had ever witnessed....
They can turn so quick....
I am really sorry that happened to you... and for no apparent reason...
Years ago, there was an older farmer that had hogs for 50+ years..... was feeding one day and a sow took a notion, he slipped and fell.... and they went berserk... killed him and he was badly mangled/eaten when he was found...people said it was the most gruesome thing they had ever witnessed....
They can turn so quick....
I am really sorry that happened to you... and for no apparent reason...
rachels.haven
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yeah...so pigs are really dangerous. I had a 100 lbs one sneak up randomly and quick as a wink try to bite a chunk out of me and gave me a black and blue bruise the shape of her mouth through my jeans...and through a cattle panel. My dad would love to come over and feed them bones/food scraps. They're made of lead muscle. Don't forget it or they may kill you. Boars have boar shields to keep trucking and pig skin is thick. It's so hard it's hard to peel. And you're a fancy hotdog with no boar shield. They're a lot like bears. Probably not go in the pen with them.
When we butchered my "kunekune" /probably wild boar hybrid boar for violent behavior/charging and lunging my dad used me as bait on the other side of the electric fence so he could get a better shot, lol. Nasty thing died trying to kill me and I was the last thing he saw on earth. And he tasted/smelled like bad locker room and cologne when cooked too, so nasty to the core. IDK if I'd bother with boar meat. That taste/smell clung to everything in the house.
That and all the other fun we had with pigs made me decide it was okay not to have pigs (also the breed we had was too fatty for us). AGH piglets were adorable though. And our older female was a doll. She wanted nothing more than monotony and backs scratches. But a pig is always a pig. I will always remember how surprisingly quick, sharp, and strong they are-also freaking heavy.
(Also pig related, the woman in my ward at church in rural iowa who ran a wolf sanctuary and lived with a pack of wolves/wolf dogs in her old farm house had a boar with a "beware of boar" sign on it on her property. She lived with wolves in her home, slept with wolves in her bedroom and wouldn't go in the pig pen.)
Good job sticking/shooting him.
When we butchered my "kunekune" /probably wild boar hybrid boar for violent behavior/charging and lunging my dad used me as bait on the other side of the electric fence so he could get a better shot, lol. Nasty thing died trying to kill me and I was the last thing he saw on earth. And he tasted/smelled like bad locker room and cologne when cooked too, so nasty to the core. IDK if I'd bother with boar meat. That taste/smell clung to everything in the house.
That and all the other fun we had with pigs made me decide it was okay not to have pigs (also the breed we had was too fatty for us). AGH piglets were adorable though. And our older female was a doll. She wanted nothing more than monotony and backs scratches. But a pig is always a pig. I will always remember how surprisingly quick, sharp, and strong they are-also freaking heavy.
(Also pig related, the woman in my ward at church in rural iowa who ran a wolf sanctuary and lived with a pack of wolves/wolf dogs in her old farm house had a boar with a "beware of boar" sign on it on her property. She lived with wolves in her home, slept with wolves in her bedroom and wouldn't go in the pig pen.)
Good job sticking/shooting him.
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Baymule
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And that's why I built my pig pen in Lindale for raising feeder pigs with a opening in the wall that I could feed them from the outside and a blue plastic barrel on the outside with a nipple on it sticking through the wire for water. I never had to go in there with them.
A member that used to be on here said her husband worked at a facility where commercial hogs were raised. Huge barns over lagoons, it must have stunk something awful. Sometimes they had to move the hogs to another pen so he could go in to look for and find, human remains. People just have no idea.
How's that pork chop taste???
A member that used to be on here said her husband worked at a facility where commercial hogs were raised. Huge barns over lagoons, it must have stunk something awful. Sometimes they had to move the hogs to another pen so he could go in to look for and find, human remains. People just have no idea.
How's that pork chop taste???
SageHill
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Locked away is useless, especially where you're at. I get safety, not problem with that. But when you need it there's no going back to get it.
Those are some hefty stitches and staples.
All that said, this should be a wake up call for all of us with or without hogs. Bulls, rams, etc can cause damage, lots of it and worse. Safety and being prepared should not be overlooked or skimped on.
