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> On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:45:05 -0500, Dave Smith
> > wrote:
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> >On 06/01/2013 7:43 PM, Bryan wrote:
> >> On Sunday, January 6, 2013 3:06:00 PM UTC-6, John Kuthe wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 13:01:34 -0800 (PST), ImStillMags
> >>>
> >>> > wrote:
> >>>
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>> We had hickory trees on our property when I was a child. We never
> >>>
> >>>> ate the nuts but we fed them to the pigs.
> >>>
> >> Those pigs must have had some serious teeth. The shells are like solid wood.
> >
> >
> >Pigs do have serious teeth. Do you ave a body you want to get rid of?
> >
> >
> >... pigs.
>
> Pigs have extremely strong jaws/teeth. We used to have lots of
> macadamia nut trees and apparently Macadamia, being totally round and
> thick-shelled as well, have been called the world's hardest nut to
> crack.
> Why did we cut down all of our Macadamia nut trees? Because the
> horde of wild pigs who live in the forest above, would come down and
> crack them all night. Sounded like a "pop gun" going off each time.
> It was the pig's constant presence and ruination of our farm land that
> made us cut down the trees. My vet. said that if pigs ate only
> macadamia nuts, they would eventually lose their teeth. We couldn't
> wait that long.
> fwiw
>
> aloha,
> Cea

Friend of mine used to live right next door to a pig farm. It was one of
the most foul things I've ever had the displeasure to smell.