Message #105280

[Ned Makim]

By barring do you mean cutting (ie castration)? If so, blokes still do it just to grow out big pigs in the bush for the sport of catching them without adding to the breeding population. It used to be about food. In our family's past, the system was to mark or cut little boars, ear mark them and let them go. The ear mark was so they could be indentified in the field as a good one to eat (better than rank boars...)
Cheers.