The pigs in California have residents seeing blue.

Warnings have been issued by authorities in the state after trappers have reported discovering wild pigs with “bright blue” meat.

Reports have been coming in to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife regarding the peculiar sighting back in March. There’s reason to believe the weird occurrence is a sign that the pigs have been poisoned.

“It’s wild,” Dan Burton, owner of Urban Trapping Wildlife Control, who first reported the shocking occurrence, told The Los Angeles Times. “I’m not talking about a little blue… I’m talking about neon blue, blueberry blue.”

A statement issued by the CDFW last week said that the pigs in the Monterey County area had been exposed to pesticide bait containing the anticoagulant rodenticide Diphacinone, a poison that prevents blood from clotting and causes internal bleeding in rodents, eventually killing them.

Blue tissue and flesh can be a sign of rodenticide ingestion, which can occur by eating bait, which often contains dye to identify them as poison or other animals that have ingested the substance, according to the department.

But that doesn’t mean such blue discoloration is always present even in contaminated flesh.

“Hunters should be aware that the meat of game animals, such as wild pig, deer, bear and geese, might be contaminated if that game animal has been exposed to rodenticides,” per the CDFW Pesticide Investigations Coordinator Dr. Ryan Bourbour.

“Rodenticide exposure can be a concern for non-target wildlife in areas where applications occur in close proximity to wildlife habitat,” Bourbor added.

The influx of blue pigs in California isn’t the first time this has happened. Way back in September of 2015, Imugur user GlendilTEK posted multiple images online entitled, “The Weird Pig.” They were also found to also have been poisoned with rodenticide.

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