Our primary project today is supporting the Dakota Research Labs in the continued development, testing, permitting and employment of an oral contraception vaccine for both male and female feral hogs.
Feral hogs can breed at the early age of 6 months and a single female can have two litters of 6 to 9 piglets a year! With few natural predators, even human control measures such as trapping, barbaric field castrations, and hunting cannot keep up with the exponential population growth.
That is why our Founders are developing oral contraceptives. Their solution does not kill the pigs, just permanently sterilizes them, painlessly and without side effects. This will result in an exponential reduction of the pig population to manageable levels through natural and man-made causes.
This effort is expensive, but well worth it to overcome the $1.5 Billion in damages currently caused by the Feral Hog population explosion. Check our FERAL HOG PROJECT page to see the latest status.
Some of the requirements we address through donations and adoption funds:
Vaccine Delivery Equipment & Feeders – feeders are essential to delivering the medicated food products safely and without impact to the surrounding environment and animals. Pigs are smart and destructive. They learn how to dismantle the feeders to access the feed. We have to replace our feeders at least yearly. We need six new feeders @ $400 per feeder.
Laboratory Equipment & Supplies – as a biogenetics lab, our consumables and supplies are very expensive, but the end result is a solution that saves the world.
Medicine & Antibiotics – Feral hogs contract many diseases and suffer from numerous cuts and scrapes. Although their immune system is rather remarkable, we provide oral medications, antibiotics, and vitamins to help our “research partners” be as healthy as possible to ensure the best environment for our vaccine solutions.
Pig Food – food is essential to the delivery of our oral vaccine for contraception. We average $800 – $1000 per month for feed.
BSL1/BSL2 Test Facilities – The testing of the vaccines for permitting by the USDA-APHIS and the EPA must be accomplished through laboratory and live animal testing. We support no kill animal testing only. This requires Dakota Research Labs to contract for a Biological Safety Level (BSL) 1 or 2 facility. This is a facility that segregates the test subjects and maintain strict control and protocols that work to ensure secure and predictable results. This is extremely expensive. Dakota Research Labs will be contracting us to help with the data collection, auditing and reporting of the results. If we get the funding, we could fund the entire testing process which puts the benefits of the tests readily available for the public and other research facilities per our charter as a public benefit charity.
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