Rob from Monmouthshire writes:
This page has been added because wild boar occasionally interact with domestic livestock.
Reports of such confrontations are published on this page. All reports are printed with the authors permission and are reproduced faithfully except for minor editing primarily to remove names and exact locations, which are deliberately not included for cofidentiality reasons.
If your livestock has had a confrontation or incident with a wild boar, do please let us know so we can add it here, hopefully to the benefit of other preople whose livestock may have suffered the same indignities. Please email British Wild Boar.
Rob from Monmouthshire writes:
"I am a breeder of Oxford and Sandy and Black pigs. I currently have two young boars at my home location near Monmouthshire and discovered a juvemille Wild Boar (male) in the enclosure this morning. Unlike my own pigs, it was not willing to allow me to make contavct and cleared a three feet high fence to make its escape into adjoining woodland!
I am aware of a population of Wild Boar in the Forest of Dean (the opposite side of the River Wye to our location) and of reported sightings to the north of Monmouth. I think this may be the first sighting in our location."
Jane from East Sussex writes:
"I have two Berkshire sows that I breed from quite regularly. Due to F&M restrictions we have not been able to have the boar back this summer so I put the sows in a wood at the bottom of the farm (about 8 acres and fenced off).
On Friday [25 October 2007] I saw what at first I thought was a large sheep. On Saturday, it and I startled each other in the wood and I was surprised to see it was a large boar with tusks! My husband thinks I’m imagining it, but on Sunday morning it was very obvious that one of the sows had been hogging and had obviously been attended to by this boar!! It will be interesting to see what she produces in four months time (and then the non believers will have to eat their words)."
Heather from the Derbyshire/Cheshire border writes:
"We seem to have a boar living in the woods on the farm I keep my horses. It hasn’t got tusks as such and the mane on its back only developed properly a few weeks ago so I am presuming it is still young.
We don’t mind it but it has started to ‘hug’ the horses. It sticks with them whatever they do. Unfortunately one of my horses doesn’t think it ok!!!!
You will see from the pics that I do have a problem with the little boar now – he has brought my mare into heavy season! He seems to stick around her the most.
When the horses are called in, he runs to the gate with them but he realises that the stable the grey mare goes into is past the mare that picked him up and nearly trampled him to death! That’s when he goes back to the house that he seems to live at."
