Domesticating Feral Pigs

Looking for some input. I put up a question on another post but got not response. Essentially I am wondering whether you can domesticate a feral hog? I realize feral is an animal that was once domesticated but is now wild. I have had an orphan sow for about two weeks. You can hold her, she comes to your call and follows you everywhere. After worming her and hitting her with antibiotics she is doing really well and probably weighs 10 pounds now. My wife and I spend time with her everyday. If you have her spayed will she be more docile or does it matter? Any advice is appreciated. And no guys, can't raise her and eat her although, that was the initial idea... got cut off after the wife got to her. Thanks.

Maybe she will"just playfully attack" you or your kids when you least expect it. We laughed when it happened to the neighbor because he got away. But had he been knocked down it would've been bad.been there. good luck!!

Trust me that hog will end up like one of the family. They tame up too darn easy and will follow you around like a long lost puppy.

From what I understand, they are smarter than dogs. And just as loyal. problem comes with the size they get up too.......when you have a 150 lb "dog" going around the house, it gets small, QUICK!!!

Found one a few days old one a military base. Guy with wife and kids took it in and raised it as an inside dog. Year later was great with IT's family but would bite others, and hardheaded to boot. A pig may be smarter than a dog but will not listen the way a dog will.

You can take just about any "wild" hog,grown or otherwise, and "domesticate" it in a short time. All you have to do is feed it regularly. Boug 23 knows. When they are grown,you just have to put out the feed and take it slow with them. Let them see that you are the food source,won't harm them,and depending on how much you are around them, you can have them eating out of your hand before you know it. Then,put some corn in water with liguid wormer,and when they get to the point of eating near you,pour some used oil in a bead on their back. Their body heat will disperse the oil and get rid of the lice and any other parasites. I have done this at camp many times,but as Boug 23 says, they will follow you around...have you ever tried to hunt with a group of hogs following you around grunting for food?

If nothing else you can control what she eats and fatten her up .... for the inevitable.

if she barks,you better run.someone's gonna get hit & run over..50# or 150# it's gonna hurt. They smack into each other just playing around. docile or not..watch out!!

I just dip her and feed her out of my hand already. Once she realized I brought the bacon she calmed down. Not too keen on the dogs but, then again most animals wouldn't be with the pack we have at the house. She doesn't mind the chihuahua much.

I have had this experience many times. A sow will be safer than a boar, but remember, it will always be a wild animal that you tamed. Thus can never be trusted 100%. I have had sows and boars and castrated boars (barrows). All behave differently. You never want to box them around the side of the head with feet or hands as that is how they fight and play. You could trigger a head toss in reaction you are not ready to deal with. I have had feral domestics and nearly pure European wild boar raised as pets. I was given a large boar raised from a piglet that at 400 lbs with 4" teeth decided to rake its previous owner in the legs sending her to the hospital. I had a barrow nearly as big that I trained dogs with. He was trained to get into an ATV box trailer, I would haul him a couple miles from the house, dump him out, he would start for home like a homing pigeon while I went back for the dogs. I would dump the dogs on his track at the starting point an hour or two later, but he would already have jumped back into the ATV box trailer at the house where he would be safe. The dogs would bay him in the box trailer when they made the track to the house. I think he enjoyed the game.

I had another barrow that was a watch pig, beat up the German shepherds to see who ate first and greeted every visitor slobbering drool worse than a rabid dog over his 3" tusks. No one got out of their car or truck. He just wanted to be fed, but no one realized that.

The down side is they will root up your yard when it rains. One hog can do a couple acres in one rainy night.

In Germany they train wild boar to sniff out drugs.

Good luck, your hog will train you to be an expert in no time.

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