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That is what we saw with the coons, they ripped everything down and dragged it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ontariofarmer
On another Forum dealing with " Wild Hogs " a question was asked about the average weight of Hogs in Texas, here is an answer.
" That’s a tough one. On our lease in central Texas we’ve shot one pig that was 200 most in that area that i’ve shot are 75-80 pounds. Back home on the South Sulphir River in east Texas we don’t shoot many that are less that 125-150. I would venture to say that they vary a lot by your location due to their available food. Lots of corn and soybeans here so the pigs are bigger. Brushier country in central Texas doesn’t seem to grow them as big
There is also the tendency for mammals to be larger the colder the temperatures, hence why norther white tails are larger, this is called Bergmann's Rule, don't be surprised if hogs up here would grow significantly larger naturally, even with poorer food.Quote:
Originally Posted by jaycee
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergmann%27s_rule
Damn!! You guys are making me hungry.
Read the whole article , this is taken from further down;Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
Criticism
According to a 1986 study, Valerius Geist claimed Bergmann's rule to be false: the correlation with temperature is spurious; instead, Geist found that body size is proportional to the duration of the annual productivity pulse, or food availability per animal during the growing season.[17]
Because many factors can affect body size, there are many critics of Bergmann's Rule. Some believe that latitude itself is a poor predictor of body mass. Examples of other selective factors that may contribute to body mass changes are the size of food items available, effects of body size on success as a predator, effects of body size on vulnerability to predation, and resource availability. For example, if an organism is adapted to tolerate cold temperatures, it may also tolerate periods of food shortage, due to correlation between cold temperature and food scarcity.[5] A larger organism can rely on its greater fat stores to provide the energy needed for survival as well being able to procreate for longer periods.
Resource availability is a major constraint on the overall success of many organisms. Resource scarcity can limit the total number of organisms in a habitat, and over time can also cause organisms to adapt by becoming smaller in body size. Resource availability thus becomes a modifying restraint on Bergmann’s Rule.[18]
Then where are they all ? There doesn't seem to be any around here and they haven't spread from where some guys are saying they are. If they were so bad I would like to know why they are not here already causing the mayhem and mass breeding some here claim?....Quote:
Originally Posted by Fox
I think Bergmann was full of cah-cah. I observed that the further south you go, the bigger the human gets. Kinda like an inverse Bergmann's Rule. I'll never forget seeing a 400lb woman at the Shoney's all you can eat buffet in North Carolina. The floor joists creaked when she got up and it took her 2 mins to make the 15 foot walk to the steam tables. She dumped the entire steam pan of fatty underfried bacon onto her plastic cafeteria tray, then wheezed her way over to the buttermilk biscuits and gravy. Then we hit the Denny's in Georgia and they were even bigger. A 570lb babe in a set of sausage-tight green spandex pants, with blowflies on her crack (feeding off of some stain). This specimen cleaned out the entire tray of biscuits, grits, bacon, and gravy. Her three 300 lb kids helped her carry the stash back to their table.
ROFL! Well,that took care of that appetite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenelon
No doubt - me too :(