What are the legalities if for say you had a large woodland say 15 acres and fenced it to stop them escaping to release wild boar ie fenced in ? And then bred them and put up a high seat or 2 to harvest some meat etc occasionally
Releasing wild boar !
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Also what would be the most economical fencing any ideas ?
Technically wouldn't be releasing them as would be captive !
Night òwl
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True but it covers their escape also
Approx cost per lin Meter anyone?
Also got to consider poachers 
Night òwl
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A barbed wire snout run at the bottom is used regularly in the dean to keep them out , so no doubt would keep them in also
Night òwl
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Definitely depending where you are , and potential for increase risk of ASFVAlso got to consider poachers
Not saying where it is but would be the closest wild boar shooting to London! , no other pigs livestock close , have seen what the flu has done to my grounds in Romania ! Not good
Night òwl
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Status of Feral Wild Boar
As a farmed animal, wild boar are subject to the Dangerous Wild Animals Act, 1976. That Act contains provisions for local authorities to licence the keeping of wild boar and specify conditions in the licence to ensure that animals are confined in a way that prevents their escape.
The Wildlife & Countryside Act, 1981 regulates the release of non-native species in the wild. Part 1, Section 14 of that Act makes it an offence to release or allow to escape into the wild, any animal that is not ordinarily resident in, and is not a regular visitor to Great Britain in a wild state, or is otherwise included in Part 1, Schedule 9 of the Act. For clarity, wild boar were added to Schedule 9 in 2010.
However, once wild boar have escaped, or otherwise have been released in contravention of these two Acts the question of their status arises. In 2008, DEFRA published the document ‘Feral Wild Boar in England: An Action Plan’. That document sets out the Government’s position on feral wild boar. The term ‘feral’ is used to clearly differentiate between captive wild boar, and those which have gone ‘feral’, living wild in the countryside. The 2008 Action Plan states that free roaming wild boar are feral wild animals, and do not belong to anyone. Responsibility for controlling feral wild animals rests with individual land owners and land managers, however, the Action Plan stops short of requiring land owners to control feral wild boar, instead the document leaves decision making to individual land owners and local communities.
As a farmed animal, wild boar are subject to the Dangerous Wild Animals Act, 1976. That Act contains provisions for local authorities to licence the keeping of wild boar and specify conditions in the licence to ensure that animals are confined in a way that prevents their escape.
The Wildlife & Countryside Act, 1981 regulates the release of non-native species in the wild. Part 1, Section 14 of that Act makes it an offence to release or allow to escape into the wild, any animal that is not ordinarily resident in, and is not a regular visitor to Great Britain in a wild state, or is otherwise included in Part 1, Schedule 9 of the Act. For clarity, wild boar were added to Schedule 9 in 2010.
However, once wild boar have escaped, or otherwise have been released in contravention of these two Acts the question of their status arises. In 2008, DEFRA published the document ‘Feral Wild Boar in England: An Action Plan’. That document sets out the Government’s position on feral wild boar. The term ‘feral’ is used to clearly differentiate between captive wild boar, and those which have gone ‘feral’, living wild in the countryside. The 2008 Action Plan states that free roaming wild boar are feral wild animals, and do not belong to anyone. Responsibility for controlling feral wild animals rests with individual land owners and land managers, however, the Action Plan stops short of requiring land owners to control feral wild boar, instead the document leaves decision making to individual land owners and local communities.
nick100
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Speaking from experience, forget electric fencing. Unless you can check it every day. 15ac would be a fair run to check.
A few pigs can soon make a mess of a block of woodland if not moved occasionally.
I ended up with ours in a permanent sheep netting pen. They soon rooted holes under the fence.
Ended up with electric just above ground level.
It worked to an extent but virtually everyday they’d root soil onto it and caused it to earth.
All in all a bloody pita.
A few pigs can soon make a mess of a block of woodland if not moved occasionally.
I ended up with ours in a permanent sheep netting pen. They soon rooted holes under the fence.
Ended up with electric just above ground level.
It worked to an extent but virtually everyday they’d root soil onto it and caused it to earth.
All in all a bloody pita.
Say about a sounder of 20 and keep the numbers under control would 15 acres be enough ?
John Gryphon
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Definitely no need for a high seat, just rattle the bucket of feed as 15 acres x 20 pigs will turn it into a wasteland in very quick time. Even high bracken fern is uprooted and they chew the rhizomes deep down resulting in ferns no more. In six months you will have 15 acres of very friable ground.
Fencing is a real problem if they want to leave. Elec fences work when they are on although I have seen big wild boar ignore them and charge through.
nick100
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As JG says I don’t think it’d keep 20 occupied for that long.
We put ours in some very thick bramble and they soon cleared that up.
That reminds me, the bast@rd things would just go through a good electric fence and just take the belt off it. That’s why we ended up with a permanent fence.
We put ours in some very thick bramble and they soon cleared that up.
That reminds me, the bast@rd things would just go through a good electric fence and just take the belt off it. That’s why we ended up with a permanent fence.
.243 t3
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Where you planning on getting them from lol
Not difficult to source:Where you planning on getting them from lol
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