Wild Hogs in the Garden----Question

It's great meat!! Lean with a wonderful flavor. I will keep the large pieces to cook in the crock pot and grind the rest. As lean as it is, it can be used just like ground beef in spaghetti, tacos, etc. Happy Hunting!!

important! i know of about a half dozen dogs that died from psuedorabies after catching wild hogs.

Up date. Caught 3 hogs so far. Caught about 125lb female Tuesday night cleaned and processed her, then caught a 125lb male and a 165lb male last night(Friday night). I gave the bigger male away and skinned the smaller male. The time I brought the meat into the kitchen I cut 2 slices and cooked it on the George Forman------it was GOOD so we processed the rest. I do not know if I will catch any more or not. I been told that the hogs will get smart to the trap and stay away from it---we will see.

Another update. Caught 6 as of 2-13-12.

Heck the spanish turned em loose all over the south when they came through back 300 years ago. They have been around a while.

They have been running wild and breeding like pigs breed for hundreds of years with russian stock and other euro stock mixed in as they escaped from folks who imported them over the years.

Some folks in Texas used to make a living herding them up during the depression, even our state dog is a hog dog invented to round up feral pigs.

There are plenty of wild hogs in Michigan. Check with the DNR. You can shoot them without a license while doing other hunting or if you see one on your property. Now that the corn and beans are harvested, easier to see them. This mild winter is likely to produce a lot of pigs.

Most were brought here by people that wanted hem for paid hunts at hunt clubs and people that wanted to grow and sell to the hunt clubs. Check with a hunt club, they may offer you a special deal, since raising them in Michigan will soon be illegal. They carry a pig disease that doesn't exist in domesticated pigs and they do not want commercial pigs to get it.

wow, just think of the damage you are avoiding... plus some good meat in the bargain.

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I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

Really avoided some long term damage because 4 of them were young sows in the 100lb or so range. Them 4 could have had a lot of pigs in the next several years.

These are the 3 that were in the trap this morning.

Wow - good photos. Did you shoot 'em yet? Neighbors up here catch the wild hogs and then feed them for a few weeks before butchering them.

Yea they are Cleaned and iced down. I have to get them out the trap so I can catch more and I AM NOT going in the trap with a bunch of wild hogs and tie them up---LOL. My hog wrestling days were over with about 40 years ago--LOL.


The picture is taken with a wild life camera strapped to a tree. I had 79 pictures taken last night, they were caught just after dark the evening before. Every time they move around in the trap the camera takes another picture. The 2 males I caught a few nights ago gave me 112 pictures. These were laying down taking a nap when I got there this morning, But Not after they seen me---they went Wild---LOL. Like Wild Hogs!!

It's neat you said that.

I saw a show on PBS once. It was about South American cowboys. When they were on long cattle drives they would trap feral hogs to eat. They would also trap extras and if they were boars they would castrate them and set them free so they were tender for the next hungry guy that came along.

Could you tell us how you rigged the door to come down after they entered? Looks like you have cattle or hog panels for the area. Congrats on the meat collection.

Never mind, found info about how to rig the door on a hog trapping site.

thats pretty cool. no more baby making, just bacon making

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I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.

We have "Piney Woods Rooters" and/or "Havalinas" around here...and they are TASTY!

My city bred relative (teenager) told me, "Hmmm, I think I don't want store-bought oink anymore. I like wild oink!"

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Peace,
Caliann

"First, Show me in the Bible where it says you can save someone's soul by annoying the hell out of them." -- Chuck

My door does not come down, it opens to the inside like a house door, I have a screen door spring that is adjusted to keep a light tension on it when it is closed so the hog can push it open to go in and I did catch the first one with it set up that way. The camera showed 6 more hogs that night outside that would not push the door to enter so I just added a 'trip" wire towards the back of the trap so several hogs can enter while the door is open until one hits the trip wire---which releases the door and the spring pulls it shut. Even after it is shut another hog could push on the door lightly and it will open so he could join his friends if he wanted to.

This is a picture showing the door open--If you look real close you can see the trip cable attached to the door that goes down at a angle to the right. This trap is bigger than shows. It is 50ft around the outside, about 15ft through the middle. I built it out of things I had laying around, The shinny screen door spring is the only thing I bought to make it. Even the trip wire is a dog cable with snaps on each end.

Update, caught 8 so far as of 2-19-12. Its weird that I have caught all these hogs with in 100 yards or so of my garden and have never seen hogs in my garden except this one time. Never seen any hogs no where on my place. The camera at the trap shows several more that I have not caught and I am sure there is alot more out there. Well off to make some wild hog linked sausage and "can" some!

Sounds like you and your trap are doing all the good.

Here is a tip I learned years ago. When you gut one, open the body cavity and put your nose close and smell. If it smell like clean meat, it will eat good. If it smell any other way, it will taste off. .

This is true for a young sow up to the biggest boar.

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" Do or do not, there is no try. " - Yoda

Thanks for that info.

Well we made 25lb of linked sausage out of some of the 2 boars we cleaned Sunday and It is the Best Tasting Pork Sausage I have ever tasted.

My Wife said if we catch another one, she wants us to make the whole hog into linked sausage---She Said That is some Good sausage.

Don't let word get around the neighborhood or next thing you know those hogs will be hard to find

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Canadian bacon is quite easy and cheap to make also.