where can i find laws/rules/info on exporting feral hogs from texas to other states????... thanks..jim

swine tends to be heavily regulated... the receiving state's agg department's rules would apply

i want some of the vastly russians from michigan that 600 OK took

what im looking for are the guidelines for holding facilities, vaccinations, vet inspection, record keeping, that sort of stuff.... i know that you can't just go out and trap hogs, and load them on a trailer and take them out of state... especially for "hunting purposes"....

Go to your nearest livestock sale barn or brand inspectors office, its not a problem to do what you want. Pigs are livestock just like cattle and horses..Get the paper work and do it.

The guys over on Texasboars should be able to steer you to what you want.
TexasBoars

Please do not take this as a hijack, but the State of Tennessee has a trapping program to eradicate European strain hogs that have become infected with swine disease due to someone turning barnyard hogs loose in state areas populated by the Europeans. After they are trapped they are shot and dragged out and left as carrion. Seems that this has had a positive effect on black bear population.

Just my 2 cents but unless you are exporting for slaughter, I would aviod it altogether. You dont want to be the guy that brought a swine disease to a previously clean area.
In addition, if you are planning on "stocking" an area for hunting you also dont want to the guy that caused the neighbors to suddenly have hogs rooting up their property.

The Missouri Dept of Conservation would probably have the law after you if you were caught releasing ferals in Mo--and the damage they do to the environment for native species is pretty nasty. Wild turkeys, quail, and other ground nesting birds are preyed upon heavily, and the mast the hogs eat is food that is no longer available for native species.

However, being in Texas, I don't think there is anything I like more than shooting feral hogs, whether with rifle or bow and arrow!!!!

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Originally posted by dustoffer:
..being in Texas, I don't think there is anything I like more than shooting feral hogs, whether with rifle or bow and arrow!!!!

amen

jimatcat:

Basically you're not going to be able to LEGALLY transport feral hogs to another state from Texas. First you'll have to deal with the following Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC)regulations and THEN you'd have to deal with the receiving state's regulations which are very likely not designed to promote the insertion of wild hogs into their landscape.

Summary TAHC regulations:

The TAHC’s feral swine regulations are intended to prevent the spread of these diseases. As Texas eliminates brucellosis and pseudorabies from domestic herds, this becomes particularly important. If reinfection is not prevented, other states may view Texas’s livestock as potential disease carriers.Feral swine trapped on a premise are to be tested negative for brucellosis and psuedorabies within 30 days before they are moved to a game preserve or site where they will be maintained for hunting. An accredited veterinarian must draw the blood samples for the tests, at the owners expense.The tests prior to movement are not required if the swine are taken directly to a slaughter facility or to a livestock market for sale or slaughter. At the livestock market, the feral swine must be held in isolation, under quarantine, and be moved only to slaughter with a permit issued by the TAHC animal health inspector.

Feral Swine Holding Facility

These are pens inspected/approved by TAHC to hold swine from the time of trapping until moving them to slaughter.

Conditions:

1. No domestic swine may be penned ormaintained within two miles of the feral swi-ne holding facility.

2. The holding facility is to be double fenced,with fences four feet apart. No animals are to be kept in the space between the two fences.

3. The facility is for feral swine ONLY.

4. These swine will go DIRECTLY to slaughter from the facility.

5. Dealer records must be maintained and include the number of swine handled, dates the animals were moved in or out, and the ranches where they were trapped. Records are also to include the name and location of the slaughter facility where the swine were delivered.

Jimatcat, if that news doesnt help maybe this will make you feel better. The game wardens I talk to say there is two kinds of property owners; those that have feral hogs, and those that are GOING to have feral hogs. We didnt have deer on my parents place where I hunt now 10 years ago and now we take several a year. The hogs havent reached there so I go to the red river and enjoy.
My .02
Eterry