Hi, my boar Eddie decided to get himself strung up on the pig netting one Sunday morning and I had to release him by cutting the wire. The noise he made whilst in this position, probably woke most of the people in the surrounding area. Fortunately, he is an enormous baby and made more noise about his situation, then any harm he was in. After he was released, he luckily had no damage done and I kept a close eye on him. I was a bit worried about his tusks and read up on them and found out that they can break off naturally. If you do go down the route of getting him de-tusked, they do grow back, which is unfortunate. The only thing you can do really, is to get your vet to sedate him and de-tusk him and while he is out to maybe give him a shot of penicillian for his sores. I have seen in books that you can de-tusk by restraining a boar and using a cheesewire, but even though my Eddie is the biggest and softest boar alive, I would not want to go down this route in case it upset him so much that it altered his easy going personality.
Tess
Pennymoor Herd of Gloucester Old Spots