permit to keep wild hogs?????

[evandavis]

i recently went and purchased 2 sow and 2 boar pigletts. as i was unloading my neighbor stopped by and told me that i was required to have a permit to keep them. i live in the country not in town. does anyone know any truth to this. thank you in advance for your input.

[cichlid-dave]

I know with many Oklahoma native animals you have to have a permit. You midget want to check title 800 rules.

[257wby]

If you live in the country, there is no reason for a permit. When I buy cattle, I write a check and turn them out to pasture. This seems like one of those "I don't want those stinkin' hogs close to my house" -neighbor situations. Unless these were wild hogs? If they were raised on a farm, no problem.

[j-dubb]

I'm not saying your going to be careless, but you do know that the spreading of wild hogs isn't caused by Hogs moving on their own. It's caused by people like yourself moving them from one place to another and turning them lose and then they multiply rapidly and overrun everything and start ruining crops. Don't know if that's your intentions, for them to multiply so you can hunt them. But if it's not, know that this is what happens.

[rhodesbe]

You should plant a couple of acres of poison ivy and stock your ponds with zebra mussels while you're at it.

[Oklahomabassin]

Your neighbor is partially correct. Noble Foundation story on wild hogs Oklahoma Agriculture Department

[RidgeHunter]

pls kill ur hogs thx

[257wby]

Sorry, just saw that these are wild hogs. I learned to read reel good in skool. Just kidding, the statement I made earlier was referring to buying domesticated hogs from a farmer or like person. The best thing to do would be to use the sows for coyote bait and eat the little ones before you have some seriously pissed off neighbors. I know if someone introduced feral hogs near my farming operation, WWIII would commence and operation makesomebacon would be initiated.

[farmerbyron]

God I hope you are trolling. Feral hogs ain't no joke.

[RWS]

it's kind of a fuzzy issue. they are not a game animal, or a native species. my understanding is that a "feral hog" is any hog that has been living in a wild state. could be a straight european or a registered hamp. regardless of what it looks like, if it was caught in the wild, it is "feral" & therefore subject to regulations. & you will be in trouble if you're caught turning out ANY hog. but any hogs, typical domestic breeds or europeans, raised & kept in a pen are livestock. & i dont know of any permit needed to keep them. the only thing i have seen are the regulations on transporting "feral" hogs.

[tntrex]

All Im thinking right now is




please dont live next to me.

[CHenry]

Troll....drive by post

[Cedar Creek]

Hogs are like armadillos on steroids and I treat them both the same way to keep them from rooting up our place. The sons of one of my friends are hog hunters, but they do "catch & release" like bass fishermen, except they do kill a few to eat occasionally. One of them told me they had released a few recently (not near our place) but they would not be able to do that after some regulation goes into effect in November.

[Bigjoe.45]

Kill them and cook'em and invite the neighbor over for the bar-b-que and all will be good!

[rhodesbe]

Can someone really eat a feral hog? Survival situations aside, I've always heard that wild hogs taste too much like ass to be good eating.