Looks to me like the commercial hunting reserve was feeding him. What say you?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/25/monster.pig.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/25/monster.pig.ap/index.html
Pass the Corn Please
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If it's pay by the pound instead of the animal they were definitely feeding it,and you can definitely say by the size and the weight that he ate like a pig.
Look how much the dear boy paid for that hog. I suppose his daddy will pay...do the math:
http://www.lostcreekplantation.com/pricelist.html
http://www.lostcreekplantation.com/pricelist.html
I used to work with domestic pigs on a farm and they would get huge. But my God, I had no idea boars could get that big! Cheezz.
Jeff
Jeff
The whole article is Hokey.
I too have some experience with swine in my growing years. Some really fun stories from the farm in Elm for another day. I will say, based on my own experience, A Boar, Uncut... (hope I don't have to explain that) I wouldn't have a ton of interest in the meat from it.
G.
I too have some experience with swine in my growing years. Some really fun stories from the farm in Elm for another day. I will say, based on my own experience, A Boar, Uncut... (hope I don't have to explain that) I wouldn't have a ton of interest in the meat from it.
G.
There is a whole website dedicated to the kid now called www.monsterpig.com If you read the comments page you'll see that its degenerated into a cultural pissing match perpetuated by suffers of BBIB (Big Brass Internet B---s) syndrome. On one side you have animal rights people connecting this kid shooting a pig with the "evils" of Christianity, the Iraq War, and other nonsense, and on the other side you have people sympathetic to the kid who accuse the animal rights people of being tree hugging godless homosexuals who believe in *gasp* evolution! Man this world is just plain weird sometimes... Oh and ditto on Sue and Largo's comments. There is no way in hell I'd eat one morsel of that thing. I mean if I saw it in the woods I'd most certainly shoot it because I'm sure that at a mere 205 pounds I'd be a light appetizer for that hideous thing.
It's a little term I invented after witnessing how brazen and downright nasty people get when hiding behind an IP address.
Was he trying to pass that off as a wild-type pig? Like a Razorback? Never even occurred to me that it wasn't a regular domestic boar. *shrug*
a swine is very adaptable. only takes a few weeks or less for it to become wild. there are many variations on the species. florida and georgia are loaded with them. they look all warm and fuzzy but they will just as soon ball you over and rip you up. these are different than the austrian-russian-european type hogs.
I know a zoo that has an old elephant they've managed to make fat and lazy on bananas and cantalope. Just rest your 50 caliber on the viewing wall.
Has anyone authenticated this thing yet? I saw some pictures from a different angle which make the hog look MUCH smaller. That coupled with the cheesy website makes me skeptical.