Feral hogs are predators. They kill goat kids and deer fawns. They destroy crops and ruin springs and ponds with their mud wallows. Hogs also will attack people, according to Loven, who spoke this week at the 1998 Blacklands Income Growth Conference, held here Jan. 13 an 14 at the Waco Convention Center. There are an estimated 3 to 4 million feral hogs in Texas, more than in any other state.
Feral hogs are simply domestic hogs gone wild.
They share no distinct species characteristic. Some are gray, some black. Some have formidable tusks. Some have small tusks or none at all. Some look very much like domestic hogs while others look like nothing ever seen in any feedyard.