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Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: carrick on November 01, 2011, 04:31:31 pm

Title: wild boar
Post by: carrick on November 01, 2011, 04:31:31 pm

hi everyone, I'm trying to find a wild boar breeder in the yorkshire area or or within a sensible distance. id be very gratefull if anyone can help  :thumbsup:. thanks.

Title: Re: wild boar
Post by: Fowgill Farm on November 02, 2011, 05:45:33 pm

Carrick
We have had wild boar threads before, there are stringent regulations to keeping wild boar in the Uk and your best option is to contact www.britishwildboar.org.uk (http://www.britishwildboar.org.uk) for guidance and where the herds are in England. I don't know of any in Yorkshire.
HTH
Mandy  :pig:

Title: Re: wild boar
Post by: carrick on November 04, 2011, 08:08:55 pm

hi mandy, thanks for your reply. i finally found a guy not too far away from me. i will be poping down to have a good look at his set up and stock there . thanks.

Title: Re: wild boar
Post by: Rich/Jan on November 07, 2011, 09:53:59 am

Hi - here in Charente (France) they are just that 'wild boar'.  They cause havoc to fields, woodlands and crops.   They are hunted by the 'chasse' who are monitored quite stringently.  The problem we have with the boar is that they destroy fencing and in doing so allow our sheep to get out.  We also keep pigs and are concerned that one day a wild boar will mate with one of our females and we certainly dont want crosses.

Title: Re: wild boar
Post by: oaklandspigs on November 07, 2011, 04:29:30 pm

The wild boar are getting nearer to us as well, here in Kent we have them less than 10 miles away.

Would agree that the worry is that they will get into your domestic herd - kill any piglets and males so they can mate with the females.  Damage to pigs, fences and well being.

Title: Re: wild boar
Post by: Billy Rhomboid on November 07, 2011, 05:33:20 pm

You need a Dangerous animals licence to keep wild boar. Whilst this is not too onerous and mostly common sense stuff - they check the security of your fencing and so on, it is not to be taken lightly. We were looking at keeping boar but the insurance cost was too high, as our land has a public footpath and adjoins houses. A friend of mine has a wild boar boar that he crosses onto commercial pigs and fully grown it is a terrifying creature. It has knocked down and eaten two of the 8 foot dense concrete block walls in its pen and is a quarter of a ton of pure malevolence. I now prefer to shoot the things in the wild out in Slovakia and bring them back dead rather than breeding them.