Fixing hog rootings

fishhead · #21 12/16/14, 07:48 AM

It looks like they could be converted in huge numbers to pet food or at the very least composted.

You could always put some corn down before you till it to give the hogs something to focus on.

TxMex · #22 12/16/14, 08:40 AM

I know a guy who has a family member that raises exotics....including lions and hyenas. They feed them a LOT of wild hog.

Actually....I'm surprised I don't hear of more folks feeding it to their dogs. Especially since raw feeding is so popular.

LOL....I am definitely not going to start buying and burying corn for the wild hogs. Don't want to encourage them to stay. They move around a lot and sometimes I don't get any damage for a few weeks at a time. If I put out corn for them they'd stick around.

I checked where I tilled up the other day and so far so good. I didn't see any new rootings at all. It will be interesting to check back in a couple of weeks and see what is going on.

arnie · #23 12/16/14, 09:54 AM

maybe were in the wrong bisness .around here home made sausage is selling for 3$ and on the hoof hogs are near a dollar a # piglets are over 60$ each . I sure can feel for you though with ho much damage a tame pig can do just rooting about the farmyard for fun on a full belly , I can imagine what a troop of hungry onery bulldozers can do . my last spoiled and pampered hog pulled up wild roses and made a bed out of them in her lot . I also feel for you loseing your corn patch . I tried plnting a patch of old time colored corn in a little bottom away from the protection of the farm dogs and was so proud as it grew to 8 + feet with foot long ears till thr deer n coon desemated it seemingly over night . we also have poachers I really don't mind the few deer n turkey taken by locals to put on the table, as they are safer in the woods than theweekend warriorers who paid for a licence and feel its their right to trespass armed with high powered rifles but the new breed of gensang, mushroom ,elmbark and other herb hunters who leave nothing for seed are becoming more trouble as of late . perhaps by planting a area with a game plot with turnips, mangles , or other roots n greens the darned varmits may stay there and give a planting of wildflowers a chance to grow

TxMex · #24 12/20/14, 05:47 PM

The pigs have come back through the area I worked on. This is a favorite spot of theirs to root in. I honestly can't tell that their behavior is any different. They do not seem to be giving preference to the tilled areas over the non-tilled areas. Looks like what they normally do.

TedH71 · #25 12/21/14, 10:39 PM

Feral hog meat is lean meat. If you get a 300 lber....that hog is likely over 3 years old. They don't get much bigger than that usually. I hunt them with dogs. The smaller they are, the meaner and quicker they are. Meat is all good once you're done soaking the meat in salt brine and draining it and re-soaking it repeatedly.

big rockpile · #26 12/22/14, 01:24 PM

I'm thinking about setting out Electronic Caller and calling them, then shooting.

I have found Glands on them I don't find on Tame Hogs.

The 450 pound Boar I killed was the Biggest they had seen killed in the area. I've seen several Sows and Baby Pigs. I will not kill the Little Ones.

They are cute. I know they get bigger and Uglier but their still Little Black Hair Balls.

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big rockpile · #27 12/22/14, 01:32 PM

Here is a few we killed one day. 6 Guys hunting. Just stalking and setting.

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