Spring is in the air. Baby birds will soon be chirping in nests lovingly constructed by their attentive parents…unless they’re cowbird chicks, who get abandoned in a neighboring nest. But let’s not dwell on such unpleasantness.
Lambs will be gamboling about pastures, and wee colts will be standing on wobbly legs for the first time, perhaps the next Secretariat in the offing once those gams get steady and strong.
It’s also time to yoink your chains and maybe talk about feral hogs again – as we did last fall – since their numbers will begin to increase after the winter hiatus.
In that post, we talked about pigs from California to Florida, devastating agriculture, woodlands, wetlands, and – frighteningly enough – even landscaping in front yards in the middle of developments.
But the out-of-control feral population isn’t confined to the southern tier and western states. Manitoba,…
