Wild Hogs in Manitoba ? Whaa ?

[bula]

A youtube channel named AGCanada has a video of wild hogs in Manitoba. These not likely from the spread that started in Tampa, correct ? It's been alot of years, but, I just don't know. The ones in southern Ohio from a game preserve kinda setting. 

[ermont0825]

I'm not sure where they came from but I have seen several bow hunting videos on Youtube. The hogs they are hunting in Manitoba are much bigger than the usual ones hunted in the US. I think that goes back to the theory that larger bodies are needed to survive in colder climates.

[kelye]

Reports of hogs showing up in Northeast Montana.

[bigbrowndog]

The thought that hogs would never survive up north due to cold is one that has been around a long time. Apparently few are aware of the ones living in Siberia, Scandinavia, and the Alps area of Europe.

One of the reports that was shared with me last year was they are “Super Pigs”, the only super involved being the stupidity that they could never adapt to conditions. Considering the prevalence of game farms in the northern US, and the tendency for pigs to escape everything, it was only a matter of time.

Trapr

[drdougrx]

The hogs are escapees from the breeding farms in Sask. Many preserves in the northern US gets them from there. Canada gives some kind of subsidy to the farmers to breed them.

[bula]

The hogs in south central Ohio from a game preserve. They had ads in the back of magazines, saw them at shows when I was a young man. Remember those ads  ?  Place in Tioga, a fav place of James, here on forum. 

[bula]

For the bear hunters, it was , and still is !, Foggy Mtn., Maine.