This is a catch 22 scenario, If you advertize them as wild boar then you need as has already been said a DWA license, if you try to skirt round this legislation and advertize them as Iron age pigs then you come under a different legislation and cannot advertize them as wild boar.
Releasing wild boar !
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Night òwl
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A lot more risk with feral wild boar wondering around
Spear Chucker
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If they are fenced, they are livestock and if you comply with the requirements of the wild animals act you should be fine. I have a client who keeps them and slaughters in the field. They are professionally processed and supplied to a supermarket chain (or at least were last time we spoke) as sausages and small cuts. It was a tidy little business.
Your problem comes as much from people who also want "a go" free of charge and release them for you. My client's problem was also that he had them next to a yard where he kept agricultural machinery and diesel. The country cousins were forever breaking in and deliberately leaving gates open. That way everyone was chasing boar and not them. My friend used to keep a shotgun in his car in case he needed to deal with any escaped boar under these circumstances.
After one raid, he was standing in front of a police car talking to Plod. He had left the unloaded gun in his vehicle, which he had locked on arrival, as the boar were still contained. One whey faced 14yr old WPC spotted the gun while snooping through the window and began yelling "GUN! GUN! GUN!". Clearly, this was the most exciting thing she had done since leaving pre-school. The next thing he knew he was on his face with three policemen standing on him and was carted off to the police station for a 2 hour interview. They didn't even follow up with him about the diesel and tools that had gone! Why she couldn't have had a quiet word with her fellow officer and behaved like a grown up is beyond me. She clearly thought that knee deep in mud as she was, she was dealing with a hardened rozzer-killing gangster.
My feeling is that you are probably better off to buy boar hunts and not break your heart or your bank account. The other consideration is that when in a semi-natural woodland scenario, boar can become really quite aggressive unless you manage the population very carefully. Walking about on your own amongst them in low light, armed or not, may not be the best idea. Fenced or not, they are still dangerous animals.
Spear Chucker
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Cracking point, They are the answer to the Scottish bracken problem. I had a friend running a farm for an owner that would not allow the use of sprays. He had 40 acres of cooch grass infested land. He asked me about it and one morning I was out watching boar turning the edge of a field next to woodland, into a recreation of the scenery of the Somme. I am not sure he was too pleased to be called at 4am, but he bought some boar and the problem was solved in 3 months flat.
Looking like the cost of peoper fencing is going to be prohibitive 
Nearly ALL the ASFV spread across Europe has been spread by human contact/interference!
I shot some boar a while ago, it was like as my mate called it a scene from the Somme all deep mud dead trees standing fallen and leaning, no ground cover. Some had been field slaughtered as per defra but the remainder wised up very fast hence my call to finish the job.
Wasn't this the issue when Monty Hall did his crofting thing up at Applecross? He whacked a sheep or goat or something for his own consumption and while his neighbours came over to help him whack it and butcher it they were very very careful not to be seen actually doing anything only giving him advice.
You can't (legally) sell domestic sheep/pigs/coos to be shot by naiive hunters. (unless you are from Islay
).You can however get your pal in to humanely destroy it. Had a mate destroy a bull a few years ago. Unfortunately the farmers kids blabbed at school and the lefty teacher called the SSPCA who called the cops and a firearms team turned up. Just thought it looked like an interesting day out apparently. They declined the shot.
It all seems complicated to me.
Heym SR20
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I have spent a bit of time in central Germany as well as elsewhere on the continent, in particular France and The Netherlands. All have pretty good populations of boar.
Quite a bit of that time has been spent walking in the woods and hunting.
I must admit I have never really noticed huge amounts of damage and woodlands and farmland all seems to be doing very well. The woodlands have been producing good timber on an annual basis for centuries. And the fields produce good quality arable crops.
I shot my first boar in a field of rape that was being combined. Chatting with the farmer afterwards he was very happy with the rape harvest and for additional wild boar that had been shot as the combine reduced their real estate.
Wild boar have learned over the centuries where they should be and where they should not. The mature sows are the ones who carry this knowledge. Most hunters deliberately do not shoot these old sows. If they do the younger ones don’t have the knowledge and cause havoc.
In the summer time hunters sit in highseats in the middle of the fields - the boar stay in the deep woods.
Only on a couple of days a year will the woods be driven. Driven hunts account for half if not more of the annual wild boar cull. Hunts are a collective effort with neighbouring farms and shoots working together.
Having spent time seeing how boar are managed and what they bring to the environment and to hunting, I really do not understand the paranoid attitude there is in the UK to big animals and their management.
Quite a bit of that time has been spent walking in the woods and hunting.
I must admit I have never really noticed huge amounts of damage and woodlands and farmland all seems to be doing very well. The woodlands have been producing good timber on an annual basis for centuries. And the fields produce good quality arable crops.
I shot my first boar in a field of rape that was being combined. Chatting with the farmer afterwards he was very happy with the rape harvest and for additional wild boar that had been shot as the combine reduced their real estate.
Wild boar have learned over the centuries where they should be and where they should not. The mature sows are the ones who carry this knowledge. Most hunters deliberately do not shoot these old sows. If they do the younger ones don’t have the knowledge and cause havoc.
In the summer time hunters sit in highseats in the middle of the fields - the boar stay in the deep woods.
Only on a couple of days a year will the woods be driven. Driven hunts account for half if not more of the annual wild boar cull. Hunts are a collective effort with neighbouring farms and shoots working together.
Having spent time seeing how boar are managed and what they bring to the environment and to hunting, I really do not understand the paranoid attitude there is in the UK to big animals and their management.
Bavarianbrit
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What part of Argentina are you in? I had a super 6 months working for Ford in the Pacheco area of BA in 1996 and would love to go back, I am waiting for a flat sale to complete then the funds are there for the rekindling of my love of their beef meals hhmm.
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