But boars are too dangerous!

For the past three years we’ve lost potential sales of weaners as a handful of people would only take gilts, but in the past few months demand for weaner boars has almost disappeared thanks to increasingly irrational and paranoid views about boars.

We’ve had people tell us boars are too dangerous, too vicious, too savage, too aggressive, too untrustworthy, and too unpredictable for all but the most experienced stockman/woman to keep.

When I ask what this view is based up, it almost invariably comes back to “a friend told me”, “I heard it on a web forum”, “everyone knows” or “I saw it in the media”.