Feral Hogs (and Sows)

[oilman]

Lots of good info here.


http://www.texasboars.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[CainA]

Flint, fascinating post and pictures. Thanks for taking the time to do that.

I've heard that those guys and gals can really do some serious damage to a golf course. In fact, I've seen some signs of this behavior on a golf course before and if it's not remedied quickly you might as well forget it.

edited to add:
pic stolen from here:
http://www.texascattleraisers.org/issue ... alhogs.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



-Cain

[Keith B]

I've heard that those guys and gals can really do some serious damage to a golf course. In fact, I've seen some signs of this behavior on a golf course before and if it's not remedied quickly you might as well forget it.

-Cain

I thought that was caused by feral gophers??

[Rex B]

Thanks alot, Flint! Thats just what I needed. I'll be on the look out for more signs. As I said, I haven't seen any hogs at all, but what I have seen are most definitely hog signs. Now the question is, when I do see a track with a hog in it, how do I get all that bacon back to the house?! and get around that pesky city ordanance about not discharging a gun in the city limits.

Crossbow?

[XDgal]

XDgal wrote:
Thanks alot, Flint! Thats just what I needed. I'll be on the look out for more signs. As I said, I haven't seen any hogs at all, but what I have seen are most definitely hog signs. Now the question is, when I do see a track with a hog in it, how do I get all that bacon back to the house?! and get around that pesky city ordanance about not discharging a gun in the city limits.

Crossbow?

Good idea, wish I had one. Unfortunately, that's just as illegal! ( Even sling shots are covered) With muggings common in the northern part of the park, I'll just say "honest officer, that hog pulled a gun and demanded all my money!" Actually, I'd probably be ok with my CHL and claim the hog charged. I'm a lot more worred about the two legged boars, and it's a pretty long shot that I will even see anyone in these woods, much less be threatened! I grew up in these woods, go there often, and I've came accross only one person in the last ten years! The trip between the house and the woods is the most dangerous, and I'm covered there. Dragging a 200 lb. boar the mile to the house is a different story!

[T3hK1w1]

T3hK1w1,

"...that we were using to catch and castrate wild piglets."

To raise?

Would you provide some details of what you with em after castrating?

This idea really appeals to me, (as, off and on) )I have wild pigs on my property I could trap.

The lease I was working on trapped a portion of the piglet crop every year and castrated the young boars. If it's done when they are young, they grow larger, taste better (supposably), and since they don't fight as much they tend to have bigger tusks, which make for better mounts. We would set an enclosure trap and check it every morning. We caught and castrated the young boars, then sprayed an coagulent/antiseptic of come sort on the cut (usually a single slit about an inch long), and on the tail, as we also bobbed the tails to indicate from a distance that they were "unmanned". We also put tags in the ears of all hogs caught in the traps, coded for year caught and location.
After that was all done and the tag info recorded, we let them go. During the next hunting season, we could advise anyone who wanted to hog hunt that the bob-tailed hogs were a good bet for tasty meat and possibly a good mount.

[Abraham]

T3hK1w1,

Thank you for the information.

Are you from New Zealand?

I spent a month on the North Island a few years back.

Loved it!

[Rex B]

"Scientists have found that free-range pork can be more likely than caged pork to carry dangerous bacteria and parasites"

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/opini ... ef=opinion" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[LaserTex]

I wouldn't trust the NY Times to tell me what day it is....

Doug