Message #294639

[treeingratterrier]

That pic of that lil brown boar is what started showing up down here around austwell refugio in the 60s to 70s a lot, there was a english guy named John Tatton who married a Ochonner gal and had about 100,000 acre ranch right on the coast, he sent over to england for tamsworths and also some russian the story goes, as soon as the screworms got killed off we started seeing this no ass high shoudler roach hair on top wooly looking hog like lil brownie and for sure they all had teeth way more than the feral tame type we had on our ranches in Bee county, in fact i remeber several times seeing hamps durocs chester whites that could have been show hog propects at one time, but the creeks in bee county all end up in san antonio or copano bay next to the National Aransas Wildlife refuge which johen tatton gave to the state of texas for life but kept grazing rights and mineral rights on it, it was full of russian striped hogs in the late 60's and 70's, if you ever go to the visito center you can see 2 or 3 striped adults with huge teeth they have life size mounts of in the hog room, dont see that russian down here anymore or the colored hogs, its like the black hogs have taken over strain has risen to the top, that picture of the wool and split ends sure rings a bell as i remeber them having that wooly undercoat and wire brissles like the one in your picture, pretty cool pictures on this thread for sure, sure interesting to see the different strains of wild hogs we all hunt on here too, really shocked to see piney woods rooters mentioned as almost all gone as well, I looked and looked for a picture of a slab sided razorback but i can not find one for still, i find mentions of them being chased and killed but no pictures, these are like in the 30s to 50's, seems like they diasapered or got hunted out or something, if you ever saw a slab sided razorback its something like no other hog profile for sure, I did find some Spanish hogs called Iberians blacks that look just like these black hogs now that seem to have taken over on a gogole image search of wild hogs of spain, check out the native hogs of france and there is a blue spotted hog still being rasied with a weird name to spell, looks blue and black spotted like a lot of pics on here i see posted sometimes, has anybody got any yellow or sandy hog pictures, it has been eons since i have seen one of them as well, used to have some on the ranch in one area, then the blacks took over and they dieapeared??