Blue Fat Pig

[DFG_Bear]

Please contact your local fish and wildlife agency if any of you come across a pig looking like this one. Also, once samples have been taken, please bury it at least 4 feet deep to prevent other animals like eagles or condors from feeding on the carcass - they are likely to die if the pig has been eating rodenticides.

http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2015/09/10/photos-wild-pig-blue-fat-found-california/


-Marc

 

[Wandering Archer]

WTF?! That is crazy looking! If I finally got a pig and it had been eating rat poison, I'd be pissed I can't eat it, lol.

 

[CAhuntress]

That's an interesting article...

 

[dr3x]

Here's another story on it:
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/wild-pig-stained-blue-inside

One comment is that:
"It is a fat soluble dye used to indicate the pig has consumed a warfarin based hog bait."

 

[thewolfman]

Thank u for the info..

 

[eoats]

VERY GOOD Info to have!


Thanks Plenty!

 

[Deleted member 33033]

Calif. is full of fat and lazy blue pigs...especially up around Sacramento. I seriously doubt a hog could survive with that much coagulant in it and suspect a porta-potti got knocked over and the pig made it a blue wallow.

 

[Wild1]

Nothing new here. I killed this public land hog over three years ago. I sent pictures of it to America's foremost expert on wild pigs - he sent pictures of it around the country. No real conclusion, other than it probably ingested some trash with blue dye in it.

 

[dthome]

I'll be very interested if the samples taken from the pig test positive for rodenticide anticoagulants. Ever buy the blue/green rat poison at a hardware store? The artificial blue coloring is what folks suspect is in the fat of that pig. Rodenticide poisoning of forest carnivores and omnivores from pot gardens is becoming a tremendous problem in California. It is very possible for larger mammals to consume sub-lethal doses of the poison and accumulate the contaminant in its fat over time. I've wondered just how much of that crap is in the bears I shoot. Mark gives good advice if you find this.

 

[signguy]

Ground squirrel poison is my guess-
There is a special place reserved in hell for those little buggers- far more destructive than hogs.

Sad to see a hog ingest what was likely enough poison to kill hundreds of ground squirrels.

 

[DFG_Bear]

Wild1 - that's the typical pattern we see when pigs ingest anticoagulant rodenticide.

-Marc

 

[Wild1]

Marc -

Thanks for the info. Have you seen it very often…? The guys at Savannah River and the University of Georgia were stumped.

 

[Bobaloo]

When I attended a DFG wild pig seminar in Lockwood in 2012, one of the speakers warned of pigs with blue fat. His understanding was that the pigs have been consuming a pesticide from the local grape vineyards.

 

[mike_cook82]

I posted about this a while back. My friend myself both shot one looking like this only worse. When we contacted DFG we were told not to eat them due to the fact that they had ingested poison from a winery most likely

 

[JustGuy]

Dont know about you, but my mother in law loved it to her last day....

 

[DFG_Bear]

Marc -

Thanks for the info. Have you seen it very often…? The guys at Savannah River and the University of Georgia were stumped.

We see it often enough to easily recognize it.

P.S. I still haven't heard back from the lab regarding the original post - my liaison with them is out on a much-deserved vacation.

 

[OPAH]

Really would like to know what It Is, please pass It on when you get the info

 

[mezcan]

Anticoagulant poison baits are legal and lead bullets are bad?
Am I missing something?
I will wager with anyone that more condors and raptors die from anticoagulant poisoning than from lead bullets. Any takers?


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[DFG_Bear]

Straight from the lab report:

"Diphacinone was detected in the muscle from a feral pig that made the news due to the blue
color of its subcutaneous tissue and fasciae. Liver is the recommended tissue to test for antico‐
agulants. A blue dye is incorporated into the diphacinone bait formulations which accounts for
the blue discoloration of the tissues of the pig. It is recommended that meat from dye colored
pigs not be consumed."


Diphacinone is an anticoagulant rodenticide bait used for control of rats, mice, voles, and other rodents. It is available in meal, pellet, wax block, and liquid bait formulations, as well as in tracking powder and concentrate formulations.

-Marc

 

[OPAH]

WOW so It Is not OK to use lead bullets because of the Ca. Condors, but It Is OK to poison all sorts of animals with this Diphacinone bait?