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Came home this evening.....
Pulled up this afternoon from fishing and heard a horrible racket from behind the house. Went through the carport so I could see what was going on and found two large hogs had broken through the fencing and had knocked over the goat feed and were eating it down while the goats yelled at them. We do live in an area with wild hogs and I do carry a pistol, so I did the right thing....
Three hours later, guy from down the road stops by and asks if I have seen 2 hogs. Seems he had trapped a few on his uncles farm and brought them back to the house and penned them in until he had time to butcher them all up for family.
I took him under the carport and showed him my big stock tub full of ice and pork... He asked about the damage and I told him about the feed and the fence. They had forced the wire up and come under the fence. I had already fixed it. He told me no problem on the hogs, that he would have handled it the same way. 30 minutes ago my dog started barking as I was getting out of the shower. When I got dressed and went outside to see what his issue was, I had 2 bags of feed sitting on the front porch..
Wish I had more neighbors like that...
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Now, that was nice, did you share the pork?
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08/26/10, 11:10 PM
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good neighbor.......definitely hope he got some hog.
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08/26/10, 11:13 PM
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He said he had 8 more at the house.
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08/26/10, 11:32 PM
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Could've been a lot worse... the hogs could've rooted through the goat pen to get to the feed, and the goats would'a gotten in it also, and you'd had goats to slaughter tomorrow!
Once a person figures out how easy it is to capture a wild hog, you never worry about meat again.
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08/27/10, 06:50 AM
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Good neighbor for sure!
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08/27/10, 07:41 AM
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 I love hearing stories like that. Renews my faith in neighbors!
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08/27/10, 07:50 AM
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I have a neighbor like that. If I called him on the phone cause I needed him he would be at my house before I could hang the phone up and I him.
We watch out for each other all the time. It really pays to get along with your neighbor if you can. Then there are some that are just not willing souls , no matter how hard you try.
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08/27/10, 08:40 AM
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That is the way neighbors should be. Not many measure up.
You are very lucky.
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08/27/10, 09:10 AM
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He said he had 8 more at the house.
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Maybe you could help butcher? You have a TRULY fine neighbor!
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08/27/10, 09:27 AM
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Maybe you could help butcher? You have a TRULY fine neighbor!
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To be honest, i'm not that good of a neighbor.....
Nothing I hate worse than butchering a pig. Took those two to a guy I know that is only open for deer season this morning to finish off for me. I just gutted them and dropped them into a clean water tank I have with a couple hundred pounds of ice overnight. Fortunately I have a great source for cheap ice.
As to the comment about going hungry once you figure out how to trap hogs..
Unfortunately very true around here. This country is crawling with them. I have had groups of them swim across the saline river while I was fishing from the kayak several times this year and see them in the back of trucks in traps almost daily.
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08/27/10, 09:36 AM
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I have neighbors like that. I can call on any of them and they will be here as fast as they can. I know the Saline river basin well and there are many hogs loose their. I used to hunt them and If I can't bring a deer I got a hog or two.
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I would love to get me some wild hog. I know we have them in OK but I haven't seen any around.
Do they taste gamey? Or is it like with deer, it depends on how you handle the meat?
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08/27/10, 10:12 AM
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Very impressive. We all should be that kind of neighbor.
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An older boar might, but younger boars and sows should be pretty much like farm raised
Some trap them and then feed them for a while to help with that
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Very nice! What a neat guy. I want to live like that-near that.
We had a Dachshund rip the head off our banty rooster and we walked the head down to the neighbor to remind him to keep his dog on his own property. He did offered to pay for it but what do you say then? $4? Hardly worth it. But he was very sorry.
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[QUOTE=sandc;4607841]To be honest, i'm not that good of a neighbor.....
QUOTE] Well you have a good reason to reconsider that way of living now. You want good neighbors (and yeah you do) then be a good neighbor. I'm not saying you have to do anything in particular, just do your best to consider your neighbors as best you can.
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That's the kind of neighbor to have. Our next door neighbors have cattle, and the first time I met the guy I let him know that we had dogs. He told me they had problems in the past with the previous owners dogs chasing their cattle. I told him that, if he found my dogs chasing his cattle and had to shoot them, to let me know and I would replace his ammunition. We have been very good friends since that time (and our dogs have never chased his cattle).
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08/27/10, 04:02 PM
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[QUOTE=Ross;4608656]
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To be honest, i'm not that good of a neighbor.....
QUOTE] Well you have a good reason to reconsider that way of living now. You want good neighbors (and yeah you do) then be a good neighbor. I'm not saying you have to do anything in particular, just do your best to consider your neighbors as best you can.
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I was saying that in reference to helping clean 8 hogs.
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08/27/10, 09:03 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sandc
To be honest, i'm not that good of a neighbor.....
Nothing I hate worse than butchering a pig. Took those two to a guy I know that is only open for deer season this morning to finish off for me. I just gutted them and dropped them into a clean water tank I have with a couple hundred pounds of ice overnight. Fortunately I have a great source for cheap ice.
As to the comment about going hungry once you figure out how to trap hogs..
Unfortunately very true around here. This country is crawling with them. I have had groups of them swim across the saline river while I was fishing from the kayak several times this year and see them in the back of trucks in traps almost daily.
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Am I misunderstanding something... you just gutted the hogs and put them on ice? Did you skin them at least? [I can see most folks not set up for scalding and scraping, but anyone can peel the hide back]
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