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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 18302"><p>If anybody has read any articles, research papers, etc. (not just coffee shop conjecture) regarding BSE or its equivalent in pigs I would sure love to get the details from you. Feral (wild) hogs are running rampant throughout most parts of Texas and my deer lease in the western part of the Texas hill country is loaded with them. We kill and eat a pretty large number of them each year but I have been a bit nervous about that, since they are clearly omnivorous. To my knowledge there are no problems with the deer population in Texas having chronic wasteing disease or any of the other afflictions commonly lumped in with BSE. But I figure that the hogs gobble up a heck of a lot of deer parts from the various gut piles and so I'm more than a little bit interested in this whole topic. I seem to recall reading a few months ago that only ruminants (which hogs are not) could contract BSE and/or pass it on in certain of their body parts, but I'd like to see something authoritative on this! Thanks for any info that anybody can share. Arnold Ziffle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 18302"] If anybody has read any articles, research papers, etc. (not just coffee shop conjecture) regarding BSE or its equivalent in pigs I would sure love to get the details from you. Feral (wild) hogs are running rampant throughout most parts of Texas and my deer lease in the western part of the Texas hill country is loaded with them. We kill and eat a pretty large number of them each year but I have been a bit nervous about that, since they are clearly omnivorous. To my knowledge there are no problems with the deer population in Texas having chronic wasteing disease or any of the other afflictions commonly lumped in with BSE. But I figure that the hogs gobble up a heck of a lot of deer parts from the various gut piles and so I'm more than a little bit interested in this whole topic. I seem to recall reading a few months ago that only ruminants (which hogs are not) could contract BSE and/or pass it on in certain of their body parts, but I'd like to see something authoritative on this! Thanks for any info that anybody can share. Arnold Ziffle. [/QUOTE]
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