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Gentlemen,
You should remember that Ted's ranch in Michigan, Sunrise Acres is a high fence hog ranch. Essentially, pigs are raised and let loose in the pasture for hunting. Some breed in the enclosure, but both sows and boars are shot. All the animals, pigs, deer, buffalo are artifically fed so the little ones will be fine. In Michigan, hogs are considered livestock and you can do what you want with them.
I left Michigan 6 days ago to move to San Antonio. I worked at a hog hunting operation for a couple years and also have an affiliation with a deer hunting ranch that Ted regularly hunts at called the Buck Pole in Marion Michigan. In fact I mounted a deer Ted shot there 3-4 years ago. I don't think he ever knew I mounted it but the owner(Claude Pollington) hired me to mount it as a gift to Ted.
Ted did nothing wrong by shooting livestock, legally. I think the question here is of ethics and some folks don't like the idea of shooting sows with piglets. In nature, they might have not survived, but in the game ranches of Michigan, they will be fine.
Hugh
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