Surprise visit from a government agency

[Leadeye]

Sounds like spending cash before budget time to justify an increase.

For years I've always said that if you want to control animals, post a bounty. Place a guy with a dumpster, a checkbook and a scale alongside the highway, money, tax and garnishment free. Locals will clean out everything.

 

[CountryBoy19]

Sounds like spending cash before budget time to justify an increase.

At the beginning of the new fiscal year? Not likely...

 

[JettaKnight]

Are you sure is was USDA, and not DEA?

The USDA may be involved in this in order to help protect the captive/agricultural hogs from potential diseases that wild hogs can carry. Like Trichinella. It's been almost entirely eradicated from the US Domestic pork populations - but not in wild hogs. A reinfection of the domestic populations could prove quite costly.

That would seriously impact my practice of 135F (medium rare) pork.

 

[indiucky]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^This^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And no, I would not allow it. Once in there they can run amok.

I hate it when people run amok.....

I am in the same boat...I found a rare fern and I feel like I should tell DNR about....But I won't....My neighbor has the same fern and he came home one day and four DNR trucks were parked in his yard......

"Hey buddy, we had a visiting Naturalist that wanted to check out your ferns...I hope you don't mind us coming by like this...She wanted some photos..."

"Er...Uh....Okay...I guess...."

 

[Leadeye]

At the beginning of the new fiscal year? Not likely...

Which goes to show that I don't know when their year starts.

 

[Restroyer]

At the beginning of the new fiscal year? Not likely...

I thought their new fiscal year started April 1st?

 

[KellyinAvon]

I thought their new fiscal year started April 1st?

.gov fiscal year is 1 Oct-30 Sep.

 

[yetti462]

The usda is working off of a $5million grant. Good for 7_10 year's I think.

Leadeye, if they put a bounty on them I'd shoot everyone I came across. For now I'll save them so I can have something to chase after deer season.

 

[Restroyer]

.gov fiscal year is 1 Oct-30 Sep.

It was a joke. April 1st = April Fool's Day. I guess I have to use purple font for the Avon contingent.

 

[KellyinAvon]

It was a joke. April 1st = April Fool's Day. I guess I have to use purple font for the Avon contingent.

I've been with .mil/.gov for almost 32 years. Jokes about FY (Fiscal Year) won't register in any font color. The FY is not a joking matter.

 

[Restroyer]

I've been with .mil/.gov for almost 32 years. Jokes about FY (Fiscal Year) won't register in any font color. The FY is not a joking matter.

 

[POC]

I've known for years there are pigs along the White River. Guy I worked with in Mitchell told me about them, showed me pics, that would've been in about 1997 or so.

As far as letting them on *my* property for something that I haven't seen? Nah. Get a card and tell them you'll call them if you see pigs.

 

[junk]

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[churchmouse]

This is a bit silly. We used to hunt Pigs back in my teens/early 20's on the family farm and surrounding ground. Farming was a lot looser way back when. My great grand dad raised pigs but his operation was not well contained nor was the neighboring farms. It only took 1 sow getting off the reservation and dropping a liter to start up the cycle. That was in Putnam Co. The entire area is built up now. Nothing the same these days so not sure what the status is out that way. I am referring to Ferrell animals. They are nasty tempered SOB's

 

[frenchiectfd2203]

I pictured Gary Busey dressed up in the suit and tie asking about seeing anything abnormal, any heat signifiers...? Do you have a meat locker nearby.?

 

[Expat]

This is a bit silly. We used to hunt Pigs back in my teens/early 20's on the family farm and surrounding ground. Farming was a lot looser way back when. My great grand dad raised pigs but his operation was not well contained nor was the neighboring farms. It only took 1 sow getting off the reservation and dropping a liter to start up the cycle. That was in Putnam Co. The entire area is built up now. Nothing the same these days so not sure what the status is out that way. I am referring to Ferrell animals. They are nasty tempered SOB's

Dad said when he was a kid in the hills (E. KY), they would notch their pigs' ears to mark ownership and turn them loose to run. They would go out and find them in the fall when they were ready to butcher some.

 

[churchmouse]

Dad said when he was a kid in the hills (E. KY), they would notch their pigs' ears to mark ownership and turn them loose to run. They would go out and find them in the fall when they were ready to butcher some.

Yup. Pretty loose way of doing it. That gets the Ferrell population started. I would not want to try and snatch up a full grown wild Ferrell pig.
The ones we shot were not as meaty as the ones that stayed contained and hung out in the mud by the old barn. They pretty much took the old barn over.

 

[Bigtanker]

This is a bit silly. We used to hunt Pigs back in my teens/early 1920's on the family farm and surrounding ground. Farming was a lot looser way back when. My great grand dad raised pigs but his operation was not well contained nor was the neighboring farms. It only took 1 sow getting off the reservation and dropping a liter to start up the cycle. That was in Putnam Co. The entire area is built up now. Nothing the same these days so not sure what the status is out that way. I am referring to Ferrell animals. They are nasty tempered SOB's

Man. They ain't joking. You are old.

 

[churchmouse]

Man. They ain't joking. You are old.

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[Hkindiana]

From research, it seems that the majority of Indiana's wild pigs are of Eurasian wild boar desent. Apparently they were intentionally released back in the 50's or 60's by hunters.