Ohio Invasive Species Public Service Announcement Feral Swine
Problems with the Invasive Feral Swine
The Feral Swine is very adventurous
Feral Swine cause erosion by rooting or wallowing in the mud, disturbed soil from feral swine activity is subject to poor soil and extensive erosion.
Here are a few pictures of the Feral Swine
Feral Swine are highly mobile reservoirs for diseases and carry up to at least 30 important viral bacterial diseases and a minimum of 37 parasites that affect people, pets, livestock and wildlife.
The Feral Swine is an omnivore it will eat plants and animals
Feral Swine destroy corn and soybeans and turnips, watermelon, squash, orchards, and timber have been reported.
Feral Swine are omnivorous feeders, they will eat anything in their path. They eat white tailed deer, livestock, feed on eggs, young of ground-nesting birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
Here's an example of a feral pig wallowing
Feral Swine negatively impact water quality by rolling in the mud (wallowing). Doing this affects water streams going downstream which cause bacterial contamination.
Tips and advice to help with the invasive Feral Swine
A way to take care of it is to hunt/trap Feral Swine (There's no closed season for Feral Swine) .
This hunter just shot a Feral Swine
Another tip is to pay attention to the news for diseases caused by these animals, because they carry a lot of diseases.
This feral Swine is looking for food
SELFIE!!!!!!!!!
Created with images by Duane Burdick - "IMGP5019" • VSPYCC - "Feral Pig" • ltansey - "Feral Pig" • Just chaos - "American feral pig" • Duane Burdick - "IMGP4986" • Duane Burdick - "IMGP4989"