Not sure if this has been posted before but I thought I'd post it again as an adjunct to the changing morphology thread

https://youtu.be/f_c3uNjNv7I

A lot of the pigs shown are young and rolling fat compared to the lean animals I'm used to.
Given they are being captured alive to go to market, what bloodlines were the farmers adding to the wild pigs to get the best price/ flavour/ tenderness etc?

That was a set-up piece of filming simulating a real pig hunt, but using domestic pigs in most scene. Like the old 'Wild Kingdom" and and other made-for-entertainment films of the past.

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Originally posted by SGraves155:
That was a set-up piece of filming simulating a real pig hunt, but using domestic pigs in most scene. Like the old 'Wild Kingdom" and and other made-for-entertainment films of the past.

And like a modern videos shot on game farms.

Neat video, but the bits and pieces of videos I have seen taken of Hog/Dog hunts in this day and time its a bunch different.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:

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Originally posted by SGraves155:
That was a set-up piece of filming simulating a real pig hunt, but using domestic pigs in most scene. Like the old 'Wild Kingdom" and and other made-for-entertainment films of the past.

And like a modern videos shot on game farms.

Yup. Good point

In Texas, all hogs that ran free were "ear marked" with the owner. Stealing one got you put in jail, or worse. Any litter following an ear marked sow was his property also. they used 'catch dogs" to "work the hogs' i.e. castrate/treat for screw worms, colic, etc. In the winter time the rooters would make huge nests ( just a big pile of pine straw.etc) and they would crawl in. If they stayed too long, they got the colic, so they had to be busted up frequently. Under Texas Stock Law...you can steal a mans wife, but you better not even steal his dog...or hog. ha

wild cattle also but nobody paid attention to an ear mark, only a hot brand counted, maybe..there were more thieves than cattlemen back in those days..Now a horse theif wasn't even questioned, just hung!