Came home this evening.....

They were skinned. Did it the old fashioned way with the winch and a sturdy rafter. They weighed 132 and 94 pounds when we hung them this morning

I'm surprised there isn't some kind of market for wild hog meat. That could wipe them out just like the buffalo.

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Fascinating but why oh why not indicate where you are? Wild hogs? Not around me! But Saline River? As in a saltwater flow river? Huh? Double huh?
Neighbors, good neighbors, how I wish I had some! My two hunters are wonderful neighbors but they don't live right next to me. The ones who do, pheeew! I'm glad your goats didn't get hurt by the hogs or overeating the feed. And don't let the feds or the ag nazis know you didn't take those hogs to a federally-approved abbatoir for slaughter or they'll be paying you a visit with gallons of bleach and warrants for your arrest. On second thought, maybe it's a good idea to keep your location a secret!!!

We have both kinds of neighbors here. One nearest us has been mowing the front part of our drive (outside our parameter fencing) from state road all around and over our private drive. (He has a riding lawn mower; we have a walk-behind and the weather has been too hot for me to get much done with it of late.) The neighbor on other side has stolen all he thinks he can get by with, i.e. initially tried to make us think our boundary line was curved in so the nice, low flat area would be his. He also took down a hugh hickory tree that marked the corner of another's acreage. (That owner does not live on or anywhere near the place; so I doubt he even knows.)

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Saline river - a river here in Arkansas

The hogs are considered wild meat so you cannot sell the ones from the wild.
Feds and ag nazis? Why would they care? The hogs down here are pretty much like coyotes but better tasting. I have a friend that has shot several boars on his property this summer and just buried them. He finds that with the big boars gone the rest of the pigs don't tear up fences and he plans on cleaning them out this winter when all of his family comes in to deer hunt. Probably 60 adult hogs on his place.

I haven't seen any wild hogs up here around us but there probably are some. Sounds like you have a great neighbor!

Sounds like a great neighbor and someone you might want to get to know better! Pretty cool of him to bring you feed to make up for it even after you scored over 200 lbs. of meat!

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The Saline river is near Benton just north of the Arkansas river. There are several wild hogs in our part of the state especially on the Buffalo River. You will have some on the lake near you but not as many. Most of the wild hogs are escape hogs that have gone feral. They are not like the ones that the conquistadors found here. Most of them are black and white but some are just plane white.

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Yep, most of the ones I have been seeing around here fit that description. There is a small group of red ones running around that I see from time to time. They have some nasty length tusks on them. They are extremely thick down here this year. I know a few guys on deer leases that have shot so many over the summer they are throwing the older boars away and giving all of the younger stuff away.

The only place I remember seeing wild hogs is down south there, we went hiking at a park maybe Jenkins Ferry, I was wondering if maybe there were any in the Ouachita National forest, we are right on the border of it.

Just caught that. The Saline River is in Benton about 20 miles SOUTH of the Arkansas River. That would confuse her a bit.