I love the melodramatic headline "[FONT=open_sans]Wild boar break into Forest of Dean churchyard and dig up graves"
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I didn't realise that they buried them that shallow in Parkend. [/FONT]
I think we ought to drive a few of them boar a few miles south as there's more than a few grave yards around me that need turning over.
"[FONT=open_sans]Wild boar break into Forest of Dean churchyard and dig up graves"
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We had 5 over the weekend and even watched a sow come out with 5 newly born piglets which shows they are breeding at least twice a year
Sorry i don't want to be clever but they not breed twice a year what do happens sometime if the sow lost the piglets in a couple of week the sow able to breed again but that still once a year...We had 5 over the weekend and even watched a sow come out with 5 newly born piglets which shows they are breeding at least twice a year
The BBC news channel had a feature on FoD boar this morning. The population has increased by 60%(FC estimates, I think) in a year, despite culling.We had 5 over the weekend and even watched a sow come out with 5 newly born piglets which shows they are breeding at least twice a year
Is it due to there not being enough people to shoot them, or not enough people willing to pay to shoot them?Sounds like the local lads need to step up instead of................
Tim.243
The FC estimate of the cull in 2016-17 required to keep numbers stable is about two boar a day, every day of the year, so allowing for non shooting days, it's actually considerably more than that. When you then add the need for the rangers to carry out a deer cull into that it's very hard to see that there's any chance of getting close, plus factor in the increasing reservoir of pigs in areas not under FC control and in some places not getting culled, and the task gets bigger, perhaps too big!
Is it due to there not being enough people to shoot them, or not enough people willing to pay to shoot them?
The second perhaps.
David.
Perhaps they need to consider more commercial solutions such as selling the stalking rights?
Sell the stalking rights then nothing only the big stuff will get shot, the big cheque books will come out and the man wanting to for fill a dream of knocking over a boar will be still a dream........