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Default Very expensive nuts

On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 22:59:49 -0500, T >
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>In article >,
says...
>>
>> On Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:45:05 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:


>> 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.


you can smell a wild pig from far away. stench-y