Wild Boar Hunting ...in Ontario

[finsfurfeathers]

Wild Boar farms in Ontario? That's a new one on me. I thought only domestic swine operations were allowed.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/23-502-...007001-eng.pdf

[trimmer21]

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/23-502-...007001-eng.pdf

OK,I'm reading between the lines,but,are those farms that are actively raising wild boar or farms that are merely reporting their presence? Notice that latest data is from 2006. Thanks for posting that,but,the data is very ambiguous.

[canadaman30]

Still looks like fun to me..

[Species8472]

OK,I'm reading between the lines,but,are those farms that are actively raising wild boar or farms that are merely reporting their presence? Notice that latest data is from 2006. Thanks for posting that,but,the data is very ambiguous.

Report is pretty clear to me. It is not reporting the presence, it is the number of livestock in a given category on agricultural holdings - i.e livestock means an animal that is owned and being raised for sale to market and agricultural holding means farm.

FFF thanks for that link, a little dated but informative none the less.

[trimmer21]

Still looks like fun to me..

.270Win 150gr PSP should do a fine job I should think. Damn,that kid can really shoot.

[MikePal]

There was a breach at a game farm not to far from here a few years back.

Eastern Ontario had a scare in 2008 when 16 boars broke out of a farm near Embrun — spurring a $1,000 fine for the farmer for failing to notify game officials of the escape — but all were killed by cars, predators or hunters.

Since late summer 2013, however, the MNRF has had six reports of boars rooting and running in Alfred-Plantagenet Township or farther east in Voyageur Provincial Park.

OK,I'm reading between the lines,but,are those farms that are actively raising wild boar or farms that are merely reporting their presence?

That report says there (was) 38 game farms specific to Wild Boar in Ontario alone (Table 4 page 11)....over 1,000 imported Wild Boars.

The ones that escaped in Manitoba walked over their fence at a game farm after a big snowfall....that's how easy it can happen.

[MikePal]

Ok, I didn’t read it. I really am kinda tired of you preaching to me about this.

If providing links to educate yourself (which are ignored) is taken as 'preaching' then maybe you should stop participating in threads that you have consistently proven not to a have a clear understanding of.

[werner.reiche]

LOL...they've shot more than x50 on my friends dairy farm (rather large mind you) in Western Manitoba.....because they are shot on sight..it's SSS.

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I've got three nephews out west - 2 in AB, 1 in SK who work in rural areas - one of them owns a farm - who are completely unaware that there are wild hogs in western Canada.
So while there many be small pockets of them, a) they are very small and b) they have not spread much over 40 years.

...and if we're going to go the same "show me" way we did with cougars - well there are less hogs than cougars in Ontario.

[werner.reiche]

OK,I'm reading between the lines,but,are those farms that are actively raising wild boar or farms that are merely reporting their presence? Notice that latest data is from 2006. Thanks for posting that,but,the data is very ambiguous.

38 farms total 1006 wild boar in Ontario. 26.5 per farm. I'm not sure what you mean "ambiguous" - it's pretty clear.

[Species8472]

LOL...they've shot more than x50 on my friends dairy farm (rather large mind you) in Western Manitoba.....because they are shot on sight..it's SSS.

I've got three nephews out west - 2 in AB, 1 in SK who work in rural areas - one of them owns a farm - who are completely unaware that there are wild hogs in western Canada.
So while there many be small pockets of them, a) they are very small and b) they have not spread much over 40 years.

...and if we're going to go the same "show me" way we did with cougars - well there are less hogs than cougars in Ontario.

Since we are getting anecdotal I might as well put in my 2 cents. My brother-in-law has 17 sections (640 acres per section) on the Alberta/Sask border that is cash cropped under contract to McCain. He has had most of this since 1985 - he has never seen live/dead or other evidence of hogs on his property - ever. A cousin also has 4 sections just outside Picture Butte in Alberta. His is a mixed operation with up to 7000 head in the feed lot and +/- 100 dairy cows. His 2500 acres rotate between corn and hay. His family have been on that farm since 1951. They too have never seen live/dead or other evidence of hogs on their property - ever