Not again.......! Feral Hog Control in East Texas

[jmorris]

I wonder if burying them rather than making them vulture food is more a viable and less stinky solution?

If you have a track hoe and a kid that wants learn how to operate one and don't mind the costs of both.

These guys don't mess around and are often already there eating the ones you shot last night, before you get there the next morning to remove them and they don't lose track of where they go when you pull them out and drag them to the boneyard.

 

[IWAC]

It never ends!

We just got rid of one sounder, now (a month later)….there is a new group.

This is just one area they have rooted up in the pasture (there are others):
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I have managed to get this group baited into a “lane” between our property and the neighbor.
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For now…there is no more damage to the pasture….but the destruction (so far)… is probably 3-4 acres in total.

Because of the confined area these hogs are in….I will not be able to “shoot out” this bunch. Time to assemble the hog trap I guess.

IH8HOGS!

From what I read, there is no controlling them. Every so often, I watch the videos about the metal Hog Traps. If they're catching that many, and still not affecting the numbers, looks like it's a losing battle!

 

[Choctaw]

From what I read, there is no controlling them. Every so often, I watch the videos about the metal Hog Traps. If they're catching that many, and still not affecting the numbers, looks like it's a losing battle!

I agree, it is a losing battle unless everyone in the area is dedicated to ridding themselves of pigs. USDA aerial hunts our place annually and always kill several dozen (killed 200 in 2021). However, the DFW people leasing to the south think hogs are cool so they don't contribute to their elimination except by shooting them under feeders. That is sport and what we're talking about is eradication. These are two radically different concepts.

 

[jmorris]

...they don't contribute to their elimination except by shooting them under feeders. That is sport and what we're talking about is eradication. These are two radically different concepts.

Do you have any idea how many, "what rifle for..", threads you would ruin with sharing that?

 

[Patocazador]

These guys don't mess around and are often already there eating the ones you shot last night, before you get there the next morning to remove them and they don't lose track of where they go when you pull them out and drag them to the boneyard.
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Buzzard fertilizer.

 

[illinoisburt]

I agree, it is a losing battle unless everyone in the area is dedicated to ridding themselves of pigs. USDA aerial hunts our place annually and always kill several dozen (killed 200 in 2021). However, the DFW people leasing to the south think hogs are cool so they don't contribute to their elimination except by shooting them under feeders. That is sport and what we're talking about is eradication. These are two radically different concepts.

Suppose a good question is the size of these places. If you had a few hundred acres while the people happy with pigs are leasing a dozen sections that will never happen.

 

[Flintknapper]

If you have a track hoe and a kid that wants learn how to operate one and don't mind the costs of both.

These guys don't mess around and are often already there eating the ones you shot last night, before you get there the next morning to remove them and they don't lose track of where they go when you pull them out and drag them to the boneyard.


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Certainly true where I am. Vultures and Coyotes readily consume all the hogs I can make available. I literally have a 'bone yard'. I have noticed over the years... 'Black Vultures' becoming more numerous than the 'Turkey Vultures' and that they are a significantly more aggressive bird.

 

[Gun-Reck]

Everyone always says that. NO, I do. I wouldn't tire of having year round hunting of large ungulates which are tasty to eat - I have no crops or anything of the sort. I promise, I would do nothing but enjoy their presence.

They are not ruminant, but they are tasty.

 

[JohnMc]

They are not ruminant, but they are tasty.

Pigs are ungulates, which includes ruminant and monogastric animals.

Artiodactyl | Definition, Diet, Examples, Characteristics, & Facts

An artiodactyl is any member of the mammalian order Artiodactyla, or even-toed ungulates, which includes pigs, hippopotamuses, camels, antelopes, cattle, and others. It is one of the larger mammal orders, containing about 200 species, and is of more economic and cultural benefit than any other...

www.britannica.com

"Artiodactyl, any member of the mammalian order Artiodactyla, or even-toed ungulates, which includes pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains, deer, giraffes, pronghorn, antelopes, sheep, goats, and cattle."

 

[Gun-Reck]

Pigs are ungulates, which includes ruminant and monogastric animals.

Artiodactyl | Definition, Diet, Examples, Characteristics, & Facts

An artiodactyl is any member of the mammalian order Artiodactyla, or even-toed ungulates, which includes pigs, hippopotamuses, camels, antelopes, cattle, and others. It is one of the larger mammal orders, containing about 200 species, and is of more economic and cultural benefit than any other...

www.britannica.com

"Artiodactyl, any member of the mammalian order Artiodactyla, or even-toed ungulates, which includes pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains, deer, giraffes, pronghorn, antelopes, sheep, goats, and cattle."

They could also be chorus-line girls.

But they aren't ruminant.