Do you have wild hogs on your farm?

[denvermartinfarms]

Won't be long after some retard "rancher" (outfitter) released a bunch of them 15 miles from my house.

How many?

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Won't be long after some retard "rancher" (outfitter) released a bunch of them 15 miles from my house.

How many?

No idea, my uncle spotted 5 at one time on his farm over there, and the DNR has been catching a few. Hope they get them all cleaned up.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Only thing you can do is fence them out. The reproduce faster than you can kill them.

I read somewhere that you would have to kill 75% of the existing population each year just to stay even.

TPWD biologist told me you would have to kill 78 out of a 100 a year to stay at a 100 so your numbers are right on.
Until the government comes up with an approved poison were screwed.

 

[kenny thomas]

Won't be long after some retard "rancher" (outfitter) released a bunch of them 15 miles from my house.

How many?

No idea, my uncle spotted 5 at one time on his farm over there, and the DNR has been catching a few. Hope they get them all cleaned up.

If you saw 5 you may have 500. Rarely do we see them in daylight. Seriously if you only have a few try every way possible to kill or catch them.

 

[denvermartinfarms]

How many?

No idea, my uncle spotted 5 at one time on his farm over there, and the DNR has been catching a few. Hope they get them all cleaned up.[/quote]

If you saw 5 you may have 500. Rarely do we see them in daylight. Seriously if you only have a few try every way possible to kill or catch them.[/quote]
That's where I was going, if your lucky enough to just have a few, they might not take off.

 

[kenny thomas]

How many?

No idea, my uncle spotted 5 at one time on his farm over there, and the DNR has been catching a few. Hope they get them all cleaned up.

If you saw 5 you may have 500. Rarely do we see them in daylight. Seriously if you only have a few try every way possible to kill or catch them.[/quote]
That's where I was going, if your lucky enough to just have a few, they might not take off.[/quote]
We had an idiot turn loose a sow and 8 pigs in the late 70's. Took 5 years to get them all killed out. We didnt see any more until about 6 years ago when another idiot about 15 miles away got tired of feeding them in a lot and turned them out. They destroy everything. My BIL has killed 10 in the last month but they get smarter and harder to kill each time you shoot. Baiting them and trapping or shooting them is the only hope for control.

 

[VCC]

If we wait long enough, maybe the reintroduced wolves can expand their range enough to take care of them.
It could be as big a success story as the grass carp experiment, we know how well that worked out.

 

[Jogeephus]

TPWD biologist told me you would have to kill 78 out of a 100 a year to stay at a 100 so your numbers are right on.Until the government comes up with an approved poison were screwed.

78% is about right but that is assuming an even distribution of the kills via gun or trap. This percentage is low when you employ trapping as a measure since bred females are more cautious and tend to be the last ones to enter the trap. The key is to catch the whole sounder and eliminate every single one of them. This prevents them from becoming trap wise as well. For instance, I've seen a sounder of pigs visit a trap for five days with 28 of the pigs going freely into the trap but the four older females would only lurk outside the trap. On the sixth night these four finally entered the trap and door was finally shut trapping 32 pigs. Once killed, the last four were cut open and they had 28 babies inside them so had you not trapped the whole sounder then you would have done absolutely nothing since these babies would be breeding again within 5 months and the population would actually be growing.

If you want to get rid of them you have to eradicate them without mercy and the only way to do this is to use a large pen type trap and use a system similar to this Georgia setup. The beauty of this is the trap is linked to your smart phone or computer and when an animal steps in the trap you are sent an e-mail and you can watch the trap from the comfort of your home via the on site camera. It may take several days for all the pigs to go in the trap but when they do all you have to do is press the button on you smart phone or your computer and shut the doors. Then its just a matter of going to the trap and disposing of them. Rod caught twenty something in San Antonio while he was at his home in Georgia.

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[Brute 23]

You better have a backhoe handy if your gonna build a pen trap.

 

[Running Arrow Bill]

Kill every one you see and trap every one you can and you will still have problems. We run them away for a few months but they come right back.

Just like fire ants...

Only GOOD wild hog or fire ant is a DEAD one!