See current regulations for more information, including taking feral hogs on wildlife management areas and other public lands. If you hold a valid Louisiana Basic Hunting License, you may take feral hogs (where legal) year-round during legal daylight shooting hours. Hog control methods used in Louisiana include recreational hunting and trapping as well as daylight and nighttime shooting by private landowners and aerial gunning via helicopter for nuisance wildlife control. Be sure to safeguard against any fluids coming into contact with any cut or abrasion. People who come in contact with feral hogs should always wear eye protection and rubber or medical gloves and should not touch their face with their hands. LDWF surveillance testing of over 1,000 feral swine statewide revealed that 5% were positive for the Brucella antigen (swine brucellosis) other diseases found in feral hogs include pseudorabies, leptospira, and trichinosis. In addition, feral hogs carry several diseases, some which can infect humans. According to the Louisiana State University AgCenter, feral hogs cause $76 million in agricultural damage in Louisiana annually.
Increase erosion and shed coliform bacteria into waterways.Uproot both planted and naturally regenerated coniferous and hardwood seedlings, and their heavy consumption of hard mast significantly reduces natural forest regeneration.Impact wildlife by direct competition for hard mast resources (fruit of forest trees and shrubs, such as acorns and other nuts) and by preying on reptiles, amphibians, ground-nesting bird eggs, and mammals including deer fawns.Overpopulation of feral hogs is an issue due to the impact the species has on our natural resources.
Feral hogs are found in all 64 parishes in Louisiana, and Louisiana’s feral hog population is currently estimated at 700,000. In Louisiana, hunter harvest numbers are less than half that so populations are growing. Statisticians have estimated that due to the feral hog’s high reproductive rate, 70 to 75% of the population must be harvested to control the population. For more information, contact Jim LaCour at or 225.765.0823.įeral hogs ( Sus scrofa) are the most reproductively efficient large mammal on Earth, and they can adapt to survive in nearly any environment.
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