Black Vultures
drawn to Missouri because of Feral Hog Carcasses
May 31st, 2019
Bollinger County, Missouri
RUNNING MY OWN TEST - SINCE MISSOURI AGENCIES WON'T
I would think the Missouri Department of Agriculture, Missouri Cattle Association and Missouri Farm Bureau would want this question answered for Missouri Landowners and Livestock Owners.
2020 - Southeast Missouri - Heifer was trying to calve - Black Vultures came in and killed calf. Ate eyes out. $2000 Heifer bred Artificial insem to one of the most expensive bulls.
2020 the Missouri Department of Conservation was given $300,000 to address the black buzzard issue.
ZERO was spent!
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Missouri Department of Conservation - Ignores the disposal LAWS that livestock owners in Missouri must follow. So I can understand why they don't want to know the truth.
May 17th test started:
May and June - Temperature range is 60's to 90's and rain at times.
What I have learned - NO Bobcats, Coyotes, Raccoons, have any interest in carcass of a Wild Hog with head missing even though they were all on property at the same time.
1. Blow Flies of course first to show up.
2. Turkey Vultures are the main visitor.
3. Black Vultures show up they make Turkey Vultures get out of their way, to whatever area of carcass they want.
4. First animal to show up is opossum and is the only meat eater to eat on carcass.
5. The number one consumption of the carcasses is some Carrion Beatles
6. Red Fox shows up never feeds on carcass but believe is eating bugs.
7. Finally Coyotes show up and grab a few bones
8. Whitetail Deer is the last visitor
www.facebook.com/Missouri-Feral-Hogs
Keep up with the latest issue with Missouri Feral Hogs
So, my Summary so far is that: 9,365 hogs left to rot by the Missouri Department of Conservation in Missouri is feeding Black Vultures in Missouri in 2018 and 10,495 in 2019.
The number of Black Vultures are increasing and for the last 12 years the numbers of dead hogs left on the landscape as a food source has increased.
When a scavenger animal has an abundant food supply and have been accustomed of a constant food source, it will come for that food source year after, year after year and bring it’s next generations along to grow accustomed to the same food source.
Then as the seasonal changes occur and the food sources start to dry up, those scavengers turn into a predatory animals – Enter the Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Wildlife and Pets.
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Photos provided by: Hog Cutters Trapping Company
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This is happening on Missouri State Parks, Missouri Conservation Areas, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers Land, Wildlife Refuges, LAD Foundation land and Mark Twain National Forest and in Ozark National Scenic River ways in Missouri every year!
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Each Your the Missouri Department of Conservation and USDA-APHIS shoot ten of thousands of hogs with 22 lead bullets and then leave carcasses to lay and rot in Missouri.
Bald eagles found ‘acting strange’ in southeast Missouri tested for lead poisoning - Mar. 13, 2021
Truman Dam - Black Vultures - June of 2020
DOMESTIC SWINE DIES ON THE FARM
READ SIGN - THE ANIMALS CAPTURE IN THEM ARE THE PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT!
Alternative facts
Please explain why FERAL HOGS KILLED BY MDC and USDA APHIS are not required to be buried if they are such big disease carriers as the MDC and USDA APHIS say they are?
By the way the State of Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency buries Feral Hogs trapped and killed.
In Missouri the domestic swine industry is currently free of these diseases. So, when a DOMESTIC SWINE DIES ON THE FARM. Missouri Laws 269.020 – Disposal of dead must be deposited in a permitted sanitary landfill notwithstanding any other provision of the law or rule to the contrary, allowing it to be buried in a sanitary landfill or buried, incinerated, composted.
https://www.lawserver.com/law/state/missouri/mo-laws/missouri_laws_269-020
Wild hogs are known carriers of at least 45 different parasites and diseases that pose a threat to livestock, pets, wildlife, and in some cases, human health. The United States Department of Agriculture recognizes these risks and recommends the following precautions when handling deceased wild hogs:
Burn or bury remains from butchered wild hogs.
Environmental Health
PSEUDORABIES
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/fs-disease-risk-dogs.pdf
Feral swine also carry many parasites that can be transmitted to dogs, either through DIRECT CONTACT or in the ENVIRONMENT.
One of the most dangerous diseases that can be transmitted by feral swine to dogs is pseudorabies (also known as “mad itch” or Aujeszky’s disease) because it is often FATAL to dogs. Dogs become infected through nose-to-nose contact, contaminated water or feed, ingestion of infected tissues, airborne virus, or contaminated clothing, equipment or surfaces. Symptoms may include fever, vomiting, excessive salivation, severe itching, incoordination, and seizures. Death can occur suddenly within a few days of exposure. Unfortunately, there is no vaccine or treatment for pseudorabies in dogs and it is rare for dogs to recover after exposure.
Do not feed dogs raw or undercooked feral swine meat or organs or allow them to play with, roll in, or consume any part of a carcass.
https://myfwc.com/research/wildlife/health/feral-swine/pseudorabies/
It can live up to four days outside of feral hogs.
The pig is the only reservoir host, pseudorabies can occur in dogs, cats, cattle, sheep and goats as well as MISSOURI WILDLIFE including MISSOURI PROTECTED BEARS, Coyotes, Opossums, MISSOURI PROTECTED MOUNTAIN LIONS, Raccoons, Rats and Mice.
THE MISSOURI WILDLIFE CODE! The second category of wildlife laws can be classified as the Protection of Wildlife. Some of these laws can even focus on animal as well as environmental health.
Mingo Wildlife Refuge - March 2019
Now the question that needs answered?
Questions: Feral Hogs dead on landscape in the high number attracting Black Vultures to Missouri and in turn hurting the livestock farmers in Missouri?
It may not and it may!
Quote: April 11th, 2016 – The Daily Statesman
Joe Jerek, the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Statewide News Services Coordinator, said once trapped, the hogs are destroyed — most often shot — and disposed of, often by burial in a nearby pit.
In Case you don't remember this is done on a YEARLY Basis on Mingo Wildlife Refuge "aka" at least 4 years. - The dumping of hog carcasses in the waterways and environment.
2015 at 50 lbs. a hog would be 6,950 lbs. of carcasses
2016 to Half of 2017 – at 50 lbs. a hog would be 37,500 lbs. carcasses.
2019 at 50 lbs. a hog would be 6,350 lbs. of carcasses
More than 30 or 50 feral hogs.
This happens yearly on Mingo National Wildlife Refuge and MDC Conservation Ground.
9,365 wild hogs killed by Missouri Government. Left to decay on landscape x 25 lbs. per hog 234,000 lbs. or 117 tons of food for Black Buzzards that are attacking Missouri Cattle.
Know one notices the Black Buzzards on video. Not one study can prove this wrong.
This is only 6000 lbs.
Which makes sense from article I have read and the black vulture in photo. This is happening on a much larger scale in Missouri
How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This Landscape - Black Buzzards
Alternative facts
Please explain why FERAL HOGS KILLED BY MDC and USDA APHIS are not required to be buried if they are such big disease carriers as the MDC and USDA APHIS say they are? 9,300 Feral Hogs left to rot in environment in 2018 and these photos are from Mingo in which 127 hogs killed by helicopter in February of 2019 and photos are from a concerned Missouri Citizen.
If each hog weight was 50 lbs. that would be 6,350 lbs. of dead hogs in two days.
How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This Landscape
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/dead-feral-pig-science-ecology/
The sum of all that disturbance made the soil “weird to walk on,” says Barton, its texture had changed so much. It also wrecked the plant communities, allowing new species to colonize the area.
Even now, more than a year later, the sites remain ecologically scarred. “Will they ever go back to normal? Probably not,” Barton says.
The problem is that the black vulture, unlike the turkey vulture, also feasts on live animals. They gang up on them, they start pecking them, and it is a fatality for the livestock
Missouri has long been home to turkey vultures, a large but relatively harmless bird that feeds off the carcasses of dead animals. The black vulture does, too, but it also attacks live animals.
The black vulture, more common in South America, gradually made its way north, first into the southeastern U.S. In recent years, the range has extended into the southern parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Menace-from-the-sky-Black-vultures-attacking-calves-across-Missouri-501135981.html
Missouri could solve the problem just like Texas Does
Who is RIGHT & Who is wrong about feral hogs being disease ridden – REALLY
Have you EVER once GOOGLE - Texas food banks and feral hogs - TOO MANY ARTICLES TO LIST –
In every press release know to man from the MDC says feral hogs are known to carry diseases trichinosis.
Ever once Google - buy feral hog meat online – Too many to list
Ever once Google - Europeans eat wild hog meat, that’s even on Hunting shows WILD BOAR FEVER 9 REDUX
DO YOU EAT RAW PORK FROM THE STORE?
HOGS FOR THE HUNGRY: TEXAN PROGRAM TO DONATE MEAT TO FOOD BANK - 100,000 pounds of pork donated to the Houston Food Bank
2,500 hogs, which will each produce around 40 pounds of meat.
They donate 30,000 lb. of pork to hunters for the hungry
RIGHT OR WRONG – World renowned Chef Gordon Ramsay and the United States Army or Missouri.
https://youtu.be/6p5x0nxtqVs
RIGHT or WRONG – Missouri or Alabama
MDC Feral Hog Coordinator Quote "There are also public health considerations, as feral hogs carry diseases that are not found in pork available in grocery stores."
So is The USDA Wildlife Services, THE SAME partner in the fight against feral hogs in Missouri wrong also?
So which Game and Fish Department is RIGHT or WRONG – Missouri or Alabama
Then in Alabama they make a video on how to field dress and butcher. Provided by the very same USDA Wildlife Services, along with Alabama Cooperative Extension System, Auburn University School of Forestry Wildlife Services, Division of Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries and Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
https://youtu.be/4w9IHZt3OGY
Black Bears in Missouri - They carry same disease that hogs do if you don’t cook it correctly https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/trichinellosis/hunters.html
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