Feral Pig

Common Name: Feral Pig / Wild Boar    

Family Name: Suidae  

Scientific Name: Sus Scofa

Status: Introduced, Not Protected

Average Size: 90cm, 75kg

Average Lifespan: 5 years

Litter: 5 to 10

Gestation: 3 months

Weaned: 2 to 3 months

Background:  Europe and Asia, introduced as farming meat animals

Breeding: Polyamory mating system, can produce 2 litters per year.

Impacts: Eat new-born lambs, damage water sources, fences, pasture and agricultural crops. The costs to farmers amount to more than $100 million a year. Cause damage to the environment through wallowing, rooting for food, competition with native species, hosts and vectors of spread for parasites and leptospirosis (porcine brucellosis), which can affect other animals and people.

Find out if you have feral pigs on your property. Feral pig tracks, Feral pig rooting.