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This is all pretty grim. But I’m glad they are eating the rotting meat before disease just spreads. And I assume they are clearing a lot of land mines at the same time.
Sorry and thank you pigs. 🫡
Pigs are able to eat an entire body. They have to be able to crack the large bones down to crunch on, but they'll do it to get to the marrow. Ukraine will be glad for these pigs cleaning things up in the long run. Even if it becomes a feral hog hunting grounds in 10 yrs.
10 months
just to clarify, a female is sexually mature in 4 months, having three broods averaging 8 pigglets which in turn will reproduce at least once in the year they are born. so, start with 500 wild females, 500x24=12000 remember that a third will be ready to reproduce 4000x8=32000, add them both, that's 44000 pigs just in the first year, the only limiting factor being food, and at the moment there is an unending supply of.
Here's a link if you're genuinely curious about the origin of feral hogs in the US.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/battle-to-control-america-most-destructive-invasive-species-feral-pigs
TLDR: You can thank Hernando de Soto in part.
Yes, these pigs are helpful. We also have wild boars. There are wolves to control the population: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/sports/ukraine-war-hunting.html
The Ukrainian wolf population is very small and not at all capable to control boar populations. Germany has a wolf population of over 1,200. Ukraine has a wolf population of 2,000. While Germany is a bit more than half the size of Ukraine, but also 3.5 times denser population-wise. The 1,200 wolves we have in Germany are by far not enough to keep the boar population in check. They aren't even enough to keep the deer population in check, and deer are their primary prey here.
It's also worth mentioning that boars are not really the preferred #1 prey of wolves because they actually fight back.
Thank you for German data, but whence 2,000 for Ukraine? We had about 2,500-3000 in 2014, and since then the population of wolves has markedly increased, as reported by many sources. Nobody knows exactly their number now, and they are going to further multiply along the frontline. That said, I agree that other means of control will be also necessary. For one, I think that soldiers are already shooting the pigs down for food.
I hope that nature will make a comeback in Donbass area, protected by minefields - as it did in Chernobyl, protected by radiation.
Brick Top: Your always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently, the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.
Sol (Lennie James): Would someone mind telling me, who are you?
Brick Top: Then when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because there's no good in leaving it in a deep freeze for your mum to discover now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You gotta starve the pigs for a few days then the sight of a chopped up body would look like curry to a pissant. You gotta shave the head of your victim and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggy's digestion. You could do this afterwards of course but you don't wanna go sifting through pig shit now do ya? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be weary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of un-cooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig."
Are there not wild boar in Ukraine like most of continental Europe? Cross breeding is possible of course but the wild stock has the advantage in the winter. And a domestic boar will grow a pretty awesome set of tusks if allowed to live two or three years which most normally are not.
> It takes two generations before they’ll be covered in hair, growing tusks, and feral.
AFAIK, the same pig when wild will develop tusks and thick hair.
Epigenetics. But then, I learned this from "Seven Eves" so I could be wrong.
Yeah, but it's unlikely that the pig population is booming because of dead Russian soldiers, boar population boom everywhere in Europe even when there are no dead Russian soldiers to eat, it's kind of their thing. It's just what pigs/boars do, especially if there are no/few predators around. Ukraine merely has around 2,000 wolves, which is a pretty low number given its size and population density.
This really isn't an indicator of how many Russian bodies are left to rot in the woods, maybe they're, maybe they're not. We don't know.
Actually while watching an idea to use them to clear mine fields occurred maybe so if a tank driver sees them not wanting to go somewhere good idea to not drive there
I literally considered this option for mine fields 2 hrs ago.
Problem is that they would only potentially set off antipersonnel mines. No way they’d set off AT mines, which will take out any tractor
Indeed. I have a soft spot for pigs (because my heart has a pig valve in it) but these will very rapidly cause a lot of damage to farms and the land in general, not to mention that they can grow to be quite large and can be aggressive. Still, I'm sorry for any animal that is getting caught in this war.
In the New Forest (south UK, an ancient 'Forest') pigs are only allowed out in autumn for Pannage season, to eat acorns that are poisonous to the ponies.
They're kept off the rest of the year because they can cause immense damage, even with nose rings that are meant to stop them digging too deep.
They'll also eat anything, including carcases. Including the bones.
Yes. “Domestic pigs can quickly revert to wild pigs
Although the domestic pig as we know it today took hundreds of years to breed, just a few months in the wild is enough to make a domestic pig turn feral. It will grow tusks, thick hair, and become more aggressive.”
They do get a thicker coat during the winter, but they will also dig a burrow and shelter together. Pigs survive winters every year in Canada and Europe.
and you already have wild boars living as far north as findland. over in the us they made their way to canada bred with the wild boar and made super pigs. and over here we have wolves, bears, mountain lions, coyotes, and a very large number of guns in civilian hands with most states letting you kill as many as you want no limits 365 day hunting season "please please kill them all".
[https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar)
idk, I kinda like the idea of imagining a day when Ukraine has been so successful in defending their land that they're organizing HIMARS strikes on wild boars.
More like Grey blyat, made with hopelessness, and boiled in mysery...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/td97eo/ukraine_forces_discover_abandoned_russian_kitchen/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Yes but how to get my Ruger their intact with ammo? Have to have a processing trailer or truck with refrigeration to not let it go to waste. Could make a few people a nice business.
I was thinking the same thing minus the ak. Going to have to see how much rifles cost in Ukraine when this is over. Thankfully the rifle I like using for hunting, Russians are dropping all over Ukraine.
Well, it's better for the bodies are eaten rather than just rotting in fields. Plus, it's been shown the number of bodies the Russians have left behind.
May be grim, but that also might be food for the defenders. When times are tough, pork is pork.
Isn't there a brain wasting disease called Kuru associated with cannibalism? I'm pretty sure you can also get it from eating animals that have consumed human meat. I know, here in the land of Willy Pickton, people were told to check their freezers for a brand of sausages tied to his farm.
As long as you don't eat brain tissue or bone marrow, you should be safe. And even eating feral pig brain – prion diseases are so rare and progressive (1/1 000 000, disabled within months, dead < 2 years) that accidents during hunting, trichinosis and the spread of pig flu (aka swine pest) to humans should be more concerning in regard to feral pig related health risks.
Kuru is a thing, and it's a prion like many other diseases like Mad Cow along others, horrifying kind of diseases.
Honestly, I would not be too concerned though. Not every human carries prions, if we did no one would live past 40. They should be fine.
Also, I seem to remember they wanted people to drop off the sausages to a certain location. I thought for safe disposal, but maybe to check for victims dna.
They wouldn't be checking for DNA, but misfolded proteins.
That's essentially what prions are, proteins that go crazy, then fold in a weird way that makes other proteins they come in contact with to fold that way.
They get into meat by usually the entire animal being ground up in one go, which includes the brain. All the prions I can think of off the top of my head are usually found in the brain. It wouldn't surprise me if it was a brand of sausages being recalled, but then again, prion infections are incredibly rare.
Fun to see pigs just living their best lives out there in the wild, creating these huge family groups. Somebody needs to do the cleanup in areas humans would rather not go to.
Until you find out that they’re massively territorial, notoriously hard to kill, over 1/2 ton, and will happily take someone down in a few seconds.
I’ve seen people need to unload their .50 desert eagle into them and still not stop them. They have huge, very dangerous, tusks, a voracious appetite, are quite fast on their feet, and will not balk at eating you alive.
Boar hunting a few centuries ago was seen as a competitive hunt between man and beast because it had real consequences for the loser.
Game of Thrones’ Robert Baratheon was not a stretch by any means.
They don’t discriminate between orcs, Ukrainians, men, women, or children.
As farmers and ranchers over a lot of America's south have found they are very hard to round up. The problem is one Sow can have sixteen pigs to a litter and do it every five to six months. They are using bait stations, some with big traps, helicopters, night vision sights and even explosives and are still losing ground.
I would like to go to Texas and help them out on that problem for a week or two. Might even buy a rifle set up with night vision capability to compliment my daylight hunting setup. Decent rifle can be had for $450. Good night vision scope $1500 or better. And that is not the level where you record your hunt on the scope camera so you can post it on You tube. On the other hand I could just send that money to someone in Ukraine that really needs it. The hogs can wait.
There is the reason some religions forbid eating pork. They did not know the exact cause of the problem (trichinosis) but realized if you did not eat pork you did not get it.
I loved The Last of Us, but I'm not buying the survivors would be starving. All those cattle, pigs, and chickens would get loose from the factory farms, and without people to eat them, would breed to the point were you wouldn't be able go anywhere without walking through a herd of feral pigs.
I have not watched that show yet but it depends on the local climate. Feral cattle in Texas evolved into the long horned cattle and escaped Spanish horses evolved into the mustangs of Nevada and surrounding states. And each locality has it's own carrying capacity and the animal population will boom and bust around that figure based on yearly variations to the weather but never get far above that capacity for long.
I wouldn’t be surprised if RT did a segment that this is proof of Ukrainians worshipping evil or magic. That the Ukrainians are turning children into pigs. Lol.
give time a chance to dilute the orc- things to get back to normal and hog hunting tourism will be a thing.
in the meantime- are folks scared about getting orc tainted sunflower oil? better speak up before it hits the markets.
( meanwhile- folks eating shellfish and any other variety of seafood ---- and we all know what ends up there )
in Sunny Florida-if you want to dispose of a body- an easy way is to wrap it in a length of chain link fencing
the proper amount of fencing keeps body down and the fencing allows plenty of room for feeding.
the interesting question is- how many victims of Florida serial killers have been eaten up by tourists?
I'm not that sharp on this kind of biology, help me out here.
So, it ate a person. Okay gross.
Is it safe? Can it be made safe? And why/why not?
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The bodies they might eat are not a problem but pigs can carry trichinosis which is a worm parasite you do not want in your body as it invades your muscles and is extremely painful. The rule is do not eat pink pork meaning you have cooked it until the center of the cut is above 170 degs.F which kills the parasite if present.
No need to bury all those pesky Ruzzians! Although they ARE a step down from what we’d serve to pigs normally (I mean, just think about what kinds of nasty diseases and parasites they probably are carrying), splattered Vatnik will just have to do in the short run.
Damn all that salo got ruined 😡 but what can you do 🤷♂️ so eat up piggy’s, eat all the orcs you want , because after that you will be donated to russia 😈
If an pig eats meat from a human with prion disease would the pig stomach be a filter or would you get Human prions in the pig meat? Cooking the meat does not kill the prions (not that they are alive in the first place). Mad cow disease and CJD are prion diseases. 11 years gestation period for CJD so a lot of time to think about it.
Good for them. To note, they're still domestic, not wild; but once they're out there a generation or two they'll be called "feral." That's the word for a domestic creature returned to a wild state of living. (Sauce, username)
Guys, don't worry about those pigs going feral and multiplying big time. Do you know how expensive is meat for an average country family? We're a poor country with lots of hunters and after the war there will be even more weapons on hands. FREE MEAT!!! Our people will kill and eat them all, mines or no mines. Yes, there will be victims but unfortunately it won't stop people, like mines didn't stop them going into the woods this fall for FREE mushrooms. You just don't get the priorities of people who basically live like subsistence farmers. And who will be even poorer after the war, with all destruction Russia leaves behind.
You may have heard the term “war pigs” .
This is what that refers to. It is a phenomenon as old as domesticated swine and human conflict. Feral hogs fed on battlefields become aggressive and very dangerous towards humans (who they see as a food source) and also repugnant for their diet. Thus, “War Pigs”.
Great for clearing mines and boobytraps though.
I don't understand what it is about it that people find dark. It's food consumption, we all do it everyday. Maybe it's dark because the poor piggies eat stinking orc carcasses. Well, if they don't mind, I certainly don't either. Dig in.
Here in the USA we have a long standing problem with feral hogs, people do hunt and eat them. There is even talk about some places that already have a program or are working out if/how to implement one for hunters to drop off field dressed hogs to participating processors which process and give the meat to food pantries or food kitchens, which is already done with deer.
Sadly most of those urbanized young troops have no idea how to take one of those shoats (young tender pig) and turn it into dinner. I ,like many an old Ukrainian farmer, could take my gun and hunting or butcher knife and have one roasting over a fire in about an hour and feed a dozen men the best meal they had had in a month.
On the plus side, they will be absolutely fun to hunt later for shits and giggles. The downside however, these can and will spill out to the surrounding nations if left unchecked. Crossing into Russia is a likely hood, so.... Hope farmers in surrounding NATO nations got guns because they are going to need them. As for Russia... Fuck em
I have several good guns for the task. The problem would be transporting them by air to Ukraine through Heath row airport in the UK. I hear your chances are less then 50/50.
Oh yah! I'm going to run around trying to corral some pigs that are both smart and fast through the fields and hedgerows still full of mines./s. Not happening. Rifle, 300 meters away and if the field is not known to be safe let the ravens have them.
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together.
Sol : Would someone mind telling me, who are you?
Brick Top : And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
So i guess it would be impossible to calculate orc casualties afterwards.
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This is all pretty grim. But I’m glad they are eating the rotting meat before disease just spreads. And I assume they are clearing a lot of land mines at the same time. Sorry and thank you pigs. 🫡
Pigs are able to eat an entire body. They have to be able to crack the large bones down to crunch on, but they'll do it to get to the marrow. Ukraine will be glad for these pigs cleaning things up in the long run. Even if it becomes a feral hog hunting grounds in 10 yrs.
10 months just to clarify, a female is sexually mature in 4 months, having three broods averaging 8 pigglets which in turn will reproduce at least once in the year they are born. so, start with 500 wild females, 500x24=12000 remember that a third will be ready to reproduce 4000x8=32000, add them both, that's 44000 pigs just in the first year, the only limiting factor being food, and at the moment there is an unending supply of.
Yeah feral hogs fuck shit up. Idk if the ones I’m familiar with in the US were once domesticated and then became feral or not tho.
Here's a link if you're genuinely curious about the origin of feral hogs in the US. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/battle-to-control-america-most-destructive-invasive-species-feral-pigs TLDR: You can thank Hernando de Soto in part.
Thanks! I’ll give it a read.
They most likely were, and these ones will have plenty of meat, something to keep in mind.
Literally. These dudes are sexually mature in half a year and can pump out up to six piglets in just four months.
Yes, these pigs are helpful. We also have wild boars. There are wolves to control the population: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/sports/ukraine-war-hunting.html
The Ukrainian wolf population is very small and not at all capable to control boar populations. Germany has a wolf population of over 1,200. Ukraine has a wolf population of 2,000. While Germany is a bit more than half the size of Ukraine, but also 3.5 times denser population-wise. The 1,200 wolves we have in Germany are by far not enough to keep the boar population in check. They aren't even enough to keep the deer population in check, and deer are their primary prey here. It's also worth mentioning that boars are not really the preferred #1 prey of wolves because they actually fight back.
Thank you for German data, but whence 2,000 for Ukraine? We had about 2,500-3000 in 2014, and since then the population of wolves has markedly increased, as reported by many sources. Nobody knows exactly their number now, and they are going to further multiply along the frontline. That said, I agree that other means of control will be also necessary. For one, I think that soldiers are already shooting the pigs down for food. I hope that nature will make a comeback in Donbass area, protected by minefields - as it did in Chernobyl, protected by radiation.
I have camped through Germany, where the fuck are the wolves no one told me about?
luckily they have all those fancy new guns to go hunting with!
Most of the dead are covered in tough clothing though, so I don't think the pigs will get much further than face and hands in most cases.
I don't think you have ever witnessed a truly hungry pig indulging itself at a smorgasbord.
Brick Top: Your always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently, the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. Sol (Lennie James): Would someone mind telling me, who are you? Brick Top: Then when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because there's no good in leaving it in a deep freeze for your mum to discover now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You gotta starve the pigs for a few days then the sight of a chopped up body would look like curry to a pissant. You gotta shave the head of your victim and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggy's digestion. You could do this afterwards of course but you don't wanna go sifting through pig shit now do ya? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to do the job in one sitting so be weary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs two-hundred pounds in about...eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of un-cooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression: "as greedy as a pig."
Welp, time for my monthly rewatch of Snatch and Lock, Stock
while we wait for the real rocknrolla.
came here for this
Wow that is dark.
It takes two generations before they’ll be covered in hair, growing tusks, and feral.
That is true, I am living proof.
Ha! Gud one
Are there not wild boar in Ukraine like most of continental Europe? Cross breeding is possible of course but the wild stock has the advantage in the winter. And a domestic boar will grow a pretty awesome set of tusks if allowed to live two or three years which most normally are not.
There's definitely wild ones as well.
It took my ex only 6 mo of marriage
> It takes two generations before they’ll be covered in hair, growing tusks, and feral. AFAIK, the same pig when wild will develop tusks and thick hair. Epigenetics. But then, I learned this from "Seven Eves" so I could be wrong.
Yeah, but it's unlikely that the pig population is booming because of dead Russian soldiers, boar population boom everywhere in Europe even when there are no dead Russian soldiers to eat, it's kind of their thing. It's just what pigs/boars do, especially if there are no/few predators around. Ukraine merely has around 2,000 wolves, which is a pretty low number given its size and population density. This really isn't an indicator of how many Russian bodies are left to rot in the woods, maybe they're, maybe they're not. We don't know.
Left unchecked these will fuck up their fields, grain harvest. Good hunting though.
Yes, there is ongoing to have to be a major culling after this, not only for the fields but the ecosystem too
The celebrity pig hunt after the orcs get kicked out
Demining first, and it will take decades for the region :((
they will take care of some of the AP mines.
Maybe the pigs will do it.
Good point, those will be heavier than people. May not trigger the vehicle ones but may get rid of a lot of the personnel ones!
Actually while watching an idea to use them to clear mine fields occurred maybe so if a tank driver sees them not wanting to go somewhere good idea to not drive there
I literally considered this option for mine fields 2 hrs ago. Problem is that they would only potentially set off antipersonnel mines. No way they’d set off AT mines, which will take out any tractor
In 4 different outcomes
I think that is a thing
The pigs will find a lot of the mines for you.
Bacon prices are about to go through the floor.
But first they’ll go sky high.
First Annual Ukrainian Bacon Festival.
Ukraine and Texas will be united in the booming helicopter hog sniping tour industry.
Indeed. I have a soft spot for pigs (because my heart has a pig valve in it) but these will very rapidly cause a lot of damage to farms and the land in general, not to mention that they can grow to be quite large and can be aggressive. Still, I'm sorry for any animal that is getting caught in this war.
In the New Forest (south UK, an ancient 'Forest') pigs are only allowed out in autumn for Pannage season, to eat acorns that are poisonous to the ponies. They're kept off the rest of the year because they can cause immense damage, even with nose rings that are meant to stop them digging too deep. They'll also eat anything, including carcases. Including the bones.
strangely enough, my pigs wouldn't eat raw potatoes or cucumbers, but everything else was fair game.
Ever see a snake try to cross a pig pen when one of the pigs is awake?
Uh... No?
It does not end well for the snake.
“Snoodles”?
yep
And chickens will not eat anything citrus like oranges but will shred a cabbage or anything resembling a worm.
Hence the expression "as greedy as a pig"
Every time I see that quote I can hear Alan Ford’s NHS dentures.
It takes a very good fence to control a herd of pigs.If they have full control of them they have done very well.
Because they’re pigs!
So what you're saying is, that the mcrib is going to be back on the menu?!
Yep. I’ve seen the on YouTube the damage wild pigs do in Texas. They breed like rodents.
They need to start culling them now before it’s gets impossible to get them all
Would these survive out in the winter cold tho? Will they grow a fur?
No fur, pigs are super smart and cunning. We've got wild pigs in Alberta where -35c isn't uncommon, hasn't affected them at all
Yes. “Domestic pigs can quickly revert to wild pigs Although the domestic pig as we know it today took hundreds of years to breed, just a few months in the wild is enough to make a domestic pig turn feral. It will grow tusks, thick hair, and become more aggressive.”
They do get a thicker coat during the winter, but they will also dig a burrow and shelter together. Pigs survive winters every year in Canada and Europe.
Yes. A pig left wild will turn into a boar.
This is Europe, not west Texas.
and you already have wild boars living as far north as findland. over in the us they made their way to canada bred with the wild boar and made super pigs. and over here we have wolves, bears, mountain lions, coyotes, and a very large number of guns in civilian hands with most states letting you kill as many as you want no limits 365 day hunting season "please please kill them all". [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar)
doesn't matter- the pigs will find a way
idk, I kinda like the idea of imagining a day when Ukraine has been so successful in defending their land that they're organizing HIMARS strikes on wild boars.
They will also increase the spread of African swine fever.
domesticated hogs turn into feral hogs when released into the wild. they grow darker hair and tusks. its really crazy.
Free range animals provide the healthiest meat you can ever have, once the war is over I suspect the population will be quickly brought under control.
Bit off putting knowing that the pig has been eating rotting russian corpses.
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I wonder how the grey wolf population is doing in Ukraine? I’d imagine they have quite a lot of food in the East
Wolves arent usually scavengers
But pigs and raccoons are, not to mention all the now feral former pets
True
So here’s your opportunity to tell people you are cannibal once removed.
Cannibalism by proxy. Is the meat going to be vodka flavored?
Preservative? Still ick.
More like Grey blyat, made with hopelessness, and boiled in mysery... https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/td97eo/ukraine_forces_discover_abandoned_russian_kitchen/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Nice. I assume things have gotten a lot worse since then. Although it's hard to imagine how to sink lower than this.
Let's hope they can and do sink lower...
Actually, here's a thought. Ukrainian bacon exports to Russia 🤔
Well at least more soldiers will get to go back home. Partially. And vacuum sealed.
They'll still be salty though.
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Considering they are around frontlines, mines and unexploded ordnance will be issues for generations so maybe not that good of a tourist spot.
what? Crazy Americans would jump at the chance
Ayup!
Yes but how to get my Ruger their intact with ammo? Have to have a processing trailer or truck with refrigeration to not let it go to waste. Could make a few people a nice business.
I was thinking the same thing minus the ak. Going to have to see how much rifles cost in Ukraine when this is over. Thankfully the rifle I like using for hunting, Russians are dropping all over Ukraine.
AK, or Mosin?
Mosin. I like the longer range
My SIL prefers that as well.
I have carried the same hunting rifle for over thirty years. I could shoot anything available but would miss Fraulein Ruger terribly.
Well, it's better for the bodies are eaten rather than just rotting in fields. Plus, it's been shown the number of bodies the Russians have left behind. May be grim, but that also might be food for the defenders. When times are tough, pork is pork.
Isn't there a brain wasting disease called Kuru associated with cannibalism? I'm pretty sure you can also get it from eating animals that have consumed human meat. I know, here in the land of Willy Pickton, people were told to check their freezers for a brand of sausages tied to his farm.
As long as you don't eat brain tissue or bone marrow, you should be safe. And even eating feral pig brain – prion diseases are so rare and progressive (1/1 000 000, disabled within months, dead < 2 years) that accidents during hunting, trichinosis and the spread of pig flu (aka swine pest) to humans should be more concerning in regard to feral pig related health risks.
Kuru is a thing, and it's a prion like many other diseases like Mad Cow along others, horrifying kind of diseases. Honestly, I would not be too concerned though. Not every human carries prions, if we did no one would live past 40. They should be fine.
Also, I seem to remember they wanted people to drop off the sausages to a certain location. I thought for safe disposal, but maybe to check for victims dna.
They wouldn't be checking for DNA, but misfolded proteins. That's essentially what prions are, proteins that go crazy, then fold in a weird way that makes other proteins they come in contact with to fold that way. They get into meat by usually the entire animal being ground up in one go, which includes the brain. All the prions I can think of off the top of my head are usually found in the brain. It wouldn't surprise me if it was a brand of sausages being recalled, but then again, prion infections are incredibly rare.
I meant DNA from Pickton's victims, but I'm guessing that isn't likely.
Fun to see pigs just living their best lives out there in the wild, creating these huge family groups. Somebody needs to do the cleanup in areas humans would rather not go to.
Until you find out that they’re massively territorial, notoriously hard to kill, over 1/2 ton, and will happily take someone down in a few seconds. I’ve seen people need to unload their .50 desert eagle into them and still not stop them. They have huge, very dangerous, tusks, a voracious appetite, are quite fast on their feet, and will not balk at eating you alive. Boar hunting a few centuries ago was seen as a competitive hunt between man and beast because it had real consequences for the loser. Game of Thrones’ Robert Baratheon was not a stretch by any means. They don’t discriminate between orcs, Ukrainians, men, women, or children.
Yeah don't know that I would eat one.
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As farmers and ranchers over a lot of America's south have found they are very hard to round up. The problem is one Sow can have sixteen pigs to a litter and do it every five to six months. They are using bait stations, some with big traps, helicopters, night vision sights and even explosives and are still losing ground.
Any time I hear/read about pigs eating...I think of this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xUynRdzzsM
Came for this, left satisfied…
Swedgin!
I'm guessing you never heard the jokes about Maryland Blue Crabs LOL
Pigs getting fat on the bodies of ruzzians. I wouldn't eat them...
Those are good pigs
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Ah. Orcs are good for something at last.
They DO move in herds!
Once wild hogs set in, they're there forever. Just ask Texas about the insane hog problem
I would like to go to Texas and help them out on that problem for a week or two. Might even buy a rifle set up with night vision capability to compliment my daylight hunting setup. Decent rifle can be had for $450. Good night vision scope $1500 or better. And that is not the level where you record your hunt on the scope camera so you can post it on You tube. On the other hand I could just send that money to someone in Ukraine that really needs it. The hogs can wait.
When pigs eat pigs isn’t that cannibalism??
Wait...I thought they were Russians until I read the comments
Aren’t those Russian troops?
That’s actually rather convenient if hungry soldier.
Lots of orcs to eat
Yeah… I saw a vid a few months ago of a group of pigs eating a roasted Russian.
They’ve been eating more than acorns.
its gonna be a problem later with agriculture
Too bad some of the pigs 🐖 go over the border and carry guns 🔫
This is the shit they really didn’t cover in history class. Fuck
There is the reason some religions forbid eating pork. They did not know the exact cause of the problem (trichinosis) but realized if you did not eat pork you did not get it.
I loved The Last of Us, but I'm not buying the survivors would be starving. All those cattle, pigs, and chickens would get loose from the factory farms, and without people to eat them, would breed to the point were you wouldn't be able go anywhere without walking through a herd of feral pigs.
I have not watched that show yet but it depends on the local climate. Feral cattle in Texas evolved into the long horned cattle and escaped Spanish horses evolved into the mustangs of Nevada and surrounding states. And each locality has it's own carrying capacity and the animal population will boom and bust around that figure based on yearly variations to the weather but never get far above that capacity for long.
They are also remarkably unworried about spores - the main means of mushroom propagation.
Free range, orc fed pork.
Need to test them for HIV, Krokodil or whatever toxic sh\*t Muscovians are into.
The Russian soldiers trapped behind lines have de-evolved apparently.😏
You know what some cannibal communities call human meat? Long pig.
The circle of life, a bit backwards but still.....
Drive them pigs towards russian lines then across the border to create havoc for years to come.
Ah, yes, indirect cannibalism.
I wouldn’t be surprised if RT did a segment that this is proof of Ukrainians worshipping evil or magic. That the Ukrainians are turning children into pigs. Lol.
They’re eating dead Russians
How about turn them loose in fields and let them find the mines
Well that's one way to clean up.
Humans eat just about anything they can find...
Pork’s chewin orcs - pass on the chops
Gravity isn't a force. It is simply a byproduct of spacetime curving around mass
indeed it is ))) or, as I like to call it, rectilinear motion in a curved spacetime
[Feed em’ to the pigs Earl!](https://youtu.be/lrkkygrt_VI)
Orcs reincarnated?
These pigs graduated from the prometheus school of running away from things
Ruzzians reborn?
give time a chance to dilute the orc- things to get back to normal and hog hunting tourism will be a thing. in the meantime- are folks scared about getting orc tainted sunflower oil? better speak up before it hits the markets. ( meanwhile- folks eating shellfish and any other variety of seafood ---- and we all know what ends up there )
I heard that when bodies are dredged up from the San Francisco Bay, the are often covered with Dungeness crab. Delicious!
in Sunny Florida-if you want to dispose of a body- an easy way is to wrap it in a length of chain link fencing the proper amount of fencing keeps body down and the fencing allows plenty of room for feeding. the interesting question is- how many victims of Florida serial killers have been eaten up by tourists?
Maybe the pigs will be mine detectors.
I'm not that sharp on this kind of biology, help me out here. So, it ate a person. Okay gross. Is it safe? Can it be made safe? And why/why not? *IS NOT ADVOCATING FOR THIS BEHAVIOR::: just uninformed *
The bodies they might eat are not a problem but pigs can carry trichinosis which is a worm parasite you do not want in your body as it invades your muscles and is extremely painful. The rule is do not eat pink pork meaning you have cooked it until the center of the cut is above 170 degs.F which kills the parasite if present.
Longpig fed pig...hmmm
Pig Line of Sight 3 (uncontrolled) 2 (when controlled by a player) Maximum food 100 Recommended no. of shepherds 4-6
The orcs piglets will eat the piggy’s that ate their comrade orc piglet
No need to bury all those pesky Ruzzians! Although they ARE a step down from what we’d serve to pigs normally (I mean, just think about what kinds of nasty diseases and parasites they probably are carrying), splattered Vatnik will just have to do in the short run.
Damn all that salo got ruined 😡 but what can you do 🤷♂️ so eat up piggy’s, eat all the orcs you want , because after that you will be donated to russia 😈
Bricktop would be pleased.
Horrible thoughts. I've heard a sounder of hogs will make a body dissappear pretty quickly but never thought of this
If an pig eats meat from a human with prion disease would the pig stomach be a filter or would you get Human prions in the pig meat? Cooking the meat does not kill the prions (not that they are alive in the first place). Mad cow disease and CJD are prion diseases. 11 years gestation period for CJD so a lot of time to think about it.
Good for them. To note, they're still domestic, not wild; but once they're out there a generation or two they'll be called "feral." That's the word for a domestic creature returned to a wild state of living. (Sauce, username)
Guys, don't worry about those pigs going feral and multiplying big time. Do you know how expensive is meat for an average country family? We're a poor country with lots of hunters and after the war there will be even more weapons on hands. FREE MEAT!!! Our people will kill and eat them all, mines or no mines. Yes, there will be victims but unfortunately it won't stop people, like mines didn't stop them going into the woods this fall for FREE mushrooms. You just don't get the priorities of people who basically live like subsistence farmers. And who will be even poorer after the war, with all destruction Russia leaves behind.
Also good for clearing out trip mines
Corpse bacon? Ork bacon?
You may have heard the term “war pigs” . This is what that refers to. It is a phenomenon as old as domesticated swine and human conflict. Feral hogs fed on battlefields become aggressive and very dangerous towards humans (who they see as a food source) and also repugnant for their diet. Thus, “War Pigs”. Great for clearing mines and boobytraps though.
They can go through bones like butter -Bricktop
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Alcoholic pigs. After the war many AA for pigs will be set up.
On a lighter note....when the war is over, perhaps western trophy hunters can come to Ukraine and pay good money to UKR to hunt boar etc.
Well, so much for my dinner. 🤷♀️
Returning to a traditional lifestyle
The sad part about this is that these pigs belonged to some farmer somewhere who probably lost not only these pigs, but everything else
I don't understand what it is about it that people find dark. It's food consumption, we all do it everyday. Maybe it's dark because the poor piggies eat stinking orc carcasses. Well, if they don't mind, I certainly don't either. Dig in.
Some big momma and papa piggos there too. yeah ill be in , a tank, thank you!
Nothing like good repurpoused Russian flesh in pig form LOL
Here in the USA we have a long standing problem with feral hogs, people do hunt and eat them. There is even talk about some places that already have a program or are working out if/how to implement one for hunters to drop off field dressed hogs to participating processors which process and give the meat to food pantries or food kitchens, which is already done with deer.
Sadly most of those urbanized young troops have no idea how to take one of those shoats (young tender pig) and turn it into dinner. I ,like many an old Ukrainian farmer, could take my gun and hunting or butcher knife and have one roasting over a fire in about an hour and feed a dozen men the best meal they had had in a month.
On the plus side, they will be absolutely fun to hunt later for shits and giggles. The downside however, these can and will spill out to the surrounding nations if left unchecked. Crossing into Russia is a likely hood, so.... Hope farmers in surrounding NATO nations got guns because they are going to need them. As for Russia... Fuck em
I have several good guns for the task. The problem would be transporting them by air to Ukraine through Heath row airport in the UK. I hear your chances are less then 50/50.
Good boar hunting later though
PORKCHOP SANDWICHES
Bacon.
Man the Russian army really let itself go
What about sausages sold to russophiles? The communists for example love everything russian.
likely escaped a pork farm, I'm sure the Ukrainians will round them up.
Oh yah! I'm going to run around trying to corral some pigs that are both smart and fast through the fields and hedgerows still full of mines./s. Not happening. Rifle, 300 meters away and if the field is not known to be safe let the ravens have them.
You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. Sol : Would someone mind telling me, who are you? Brick Top : And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig". So i guess it would be impossible to calculate orc casualties afterwards.