Wild boar colouring

[Border]

For those that shoot boar in the UK. Are they predominately natural coloured or do the speckly pigs genes turn up from time to time? If affirmative I presume that these are targeted in the same way as white fallow (unless it is a sow with young?)

 

[Jamouk]

Not seen any speckly ones myself

 

[thomas]

There is a huge variation in hair colour from black through to a light sandy shade, but look closely and most have a huge mix of hair colours within their coat. Around the jaw and backs of the ears it can also be wooly, almost like sheep wool. With regard to skin pigment there do not appear to be any noticeable tones or patches. I did catch one on trail cam a few years ago with a thin summer coat which under the IR you could definitely see skin markings / colouration similar to domestic breeds, that said it may well have been a crossbred boar /domestic pig.

 

[8x57]

From what I have seen and heard from other shooters it will depend on the part of the country and how true to genuine type the boar were that escaped or were released. Not that I have any personal experience of them but I hear that in the south east they are very much a mixed race feral boar and vary considerably in colour while those in the Forest of Dean are mostly true to type European wild boar or at least a stone age boar.