When I told my beast friends that I did n’t know what to blog about this week , Carlotta say , “ Talk about me ! Blog about barbaric pigs ! ”
Carlottaisn’t a wild grunter but she thinks she is because she grew up with Wilma , a born - in - the - dotty Arkansas razorbacked hog . Wilma got separated from her sounder ( that ’s a ruck of feral bull ) when she was a bantam piglet , but some dainty citizenry found her and bottle - rear her ongoat Milk River .
Wilma came to live on our farm when she was 1 yr old . She was solitary , so Mom and Dad purchase Carlotta to keep her company . Carlotta ’s dad was a Russian wild boar whose parents live at a zoo in Chicago . Her mom is anOssabaw Island hog . Ossabaw Island hogs descend from Sus scrofa that Spanish explorers released on Ossabaw Island off the coast of Georgia almost 400 years ago . Now they ’re tame , but they look like wild pigs .
One day Wilma and Carlottabroke the fenceand track down off into the woods . Mom walked in the woods , calling the pigs , for nearly a week . Then Carlotta came home . Wilma did n’t . There are lots of sounders of feral pigs in Arkansas , so Wilma belike met up and link up one . Now Carlotta go withour horses .
harmonise to abrochure publish by the USDA , there are sounder of savage slob in at least 39 states . The largest population are in California , Florida , Hawaii and Texas . They go by lots of name , admit wild hogs , risky wild boar , rorqual and Pineywoods rooters . Most have a distinctive look .
Most feral pigs are medium - size , ranging from 75 to 450 hammering . Piglets are horizontally striped in shade of brown and ointment . grownup can be grey-haired , brown , lily-white , russet or recognize , but most are black with unaccented gratuity on their foresightful , coarse pilus . They have bragging shoulder and slender pelvis ; foresightful nozzle like those of Ossabaw Island Hogs ; modest , pointed , tumid ears ; and longish fundament that rarely wave likedomestic pigs ‘ tails . Both sexes have sturdy , sharp tusk , though a boar ’s are much longer than a sow ’s . They apply their ivory for defense , so it ’s never wise to approach savage pigs in the wild .
Unfortunately , feral pigs do a lot of damage on farms by junket on and rooting up crop and sometimes killing and eat infant fauna . And some uncivilized hog are carriers of two serious hogget diseases that can spread to domestic pigs : swine Bang’s disease and pseudorabies . So savage pigs are considered a pest species , and in some states , hunters can kill as many as they want at any time .
But not Carlotta ! When hunting time of year start , Mom trims the long hair on her sides and uses stock paint to spray “ PET ” on her in big , orange letters . We have it away Carlotta , we do n’t want anyone to film her . Carlotta is our friend !
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