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Article: Feral swine issues concern regulators.(News)
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- Feedstuffs
- Article date:
- August 27, 2007
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Key Points
* Feral hogs account for about two-thirds of all swine in Texas.
* Transitional swine operations may have interactions with feral hogs.
* More classifications needed for well-managed transition operations
ACCORDING to fable, three little pigs built houses of brick, wood or straw to protect themselves against the wolf.
Swine producers now work with pen design, housing construction and biosecurity measures to protect pigs against another wolf: wild (feral) hogs that can carry and transmit disease. There's no shortage of feral pigs in Texas. Of the nearly 3 million swine in the state, more than 2 million are wild.
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