Hogs

[Texas Gal]

Well, it's official -we've got hogs on our place, d*&$ it. I HATE hogs!! Saw them on a game cam. I HATE hogs!!!! Looks like it's time to trap and shoot. Oh, did I mention that I HATE hogs!!!!!?

 

[ROCKSPRINGS]

I'm sure you had them long before you saw the game-cam pictures.


Two kinds of ranches, those who have hogs, and those who will have hogs sooner or later. Bank on it.

They come and go, you will never get rid of them all togeather.

 

[Brute 23]

Traps will work for a while(maybe), shooting helps but the are hard to track down to get a shot, dogs are the best method by far. ;-)

 

[Cow_Town]

Traps will work for a while(maybe), shooting helps but the are hard to track down to get a shot, dogs are the best method by far. ;-)

Traps are the best method. Anything else is just wasting time.

 

[TedH71]

Traps only get the young and the stupid ones. The ones that see their friends get in the traps will avoid it like the plague. A combo of traps and dogs will get rid of the hogs in a short while..

Those dogs are blue lacys (http://www.lacydog.com)

 

[backhoeboogie]

Trapping gets the majority of them.

If you do shoot, remember the heart and lungs are encased in the armor just in front of the lower shoulder and not behind like deer are. Texasboars used to have some good pics titled, "the anatomy of hogs" that showed it all quite clearly.

Get rid of them best you can asap.

 

[KNERSIE]

Trapping gets the majority of them.

If you do shoot, remember the heart and lungs are encased in the armor just in front of the lower shoulder and not behind like deer are. Texasboars used to have some good pics titled, "the anatomy of hogs" that showed it all quite clearly.

Get rid of them best you can asap.

does that apply to all kinds of pigs?

I never knew that.

 

[Brute 23]

Traps will work for a while(maybe), shooting helps but the are hard to track down to get a shot, dogs are the best method by far. ;-)

Traps are the best method. Anything else is just wasting time.

Ha Ha Ha

That is exactly what they want you to think! :lol: Let me guess you have caught 8 hogs, at one time, in you 4x6 box trap and now you are an expert.

Large circlular traps can help if done right. Put a feeder in the middle and let it go for a couple weeks with doors open. Then set it one night and get a 40' to haul them off.

That will take out all the young stupid hogs then you get some dogs in there to take out the big sows,,, then the big boars. The hogs get use to smelling the dogs and if you run them reguarly will cut down on the damage tremendously.

 

[Calman]

Well Texas Girl, one of our farms is just 4mi west of montague.
Rekon we'll be seing them soon.

Cal

 

[rouxshortorn]

Is it open season on hogs down there or is there a hunting season. Don't have hog around Maine, but I know alot of freinds that would love to hunt them.

 

[Cow_Town]

Traps will work for a while(maybe), shooting helps but the are hard to track down to get a shot, dogs are the best method by far. ;-)

Traps are the best method. Anything else is just wasting time.

Ha Ha Ha

That is exactly what they want you to think! :lol: Let me guess you have caught 8 hogs, at one time, in you 4x6 box trap and now you are an expert.

Large circlular traps can help if done right. Put a feeder in the middle and let it go for a couple weeks with doors open. Then set it one night and get a 40' to haul them off.

That will take out all the young stupid hogs then you get some dogs in there to take out the big sows,,, then the big boars. The hogs get use to smelling the dogs and if you run them reguarly will cut down on the damage tremendously.

Well aint you just a genius on everything Hog related. I dont need to sit on this computer and list every circular trap I've built and all of the 500+ head of hogs that I've either trapped, killed or had at least a hand in their removal. I can sleep easy at night knowing I aint spouting a bunch of BS on an internet message board. Some of us work a regular job as well as manage ranching operations and keep the hogs killed out all at the same time and aint got time to take a few pot lickers out to chase hogs through the woods. Keep buying that high priced dog food, because anyone worth his salt and that has any experience will tell you that a vigorous and sustained trapping effort on many adjoining properties is the only real effective way to manage the hog population. :roll:

 

[Brute 23]

Traps are effective... but not the MOST effective. To get the most bang you need to do both traps and dogs. You take what you can get with traps but then the dogs do the real work. ALSO when it comes to crops, what pig will walk in a trap when there is 200 to 15K acres of corn in the field. Dogs are the ONLY thing that can even come close to controlling that.

Some of us do all of what you listed... and are smart enought to have a laptop with a wireless card so they can always stay connected. :lol: Heck I even have a gps so I can get on Google and drive around and see where I have been or am going.(I don't need it but the bosses and clients enjoy it) :lol: :lol: :lol: Comes in handy on the 250,000+ acres I have access to for killing hogs. ;-)

By the way.... thats a $1200 pot licker in that second from last pic. ;-)

500...

I kill 350+ with dogs alone per year... not counting traps and what I shoot.:roll:

You are going to have to strein to make a stream that goes further than that one. There is some one out there who can... but not you, Sorry.

Sorry to every one else who had to read this... I couldn't resist.

 

[Cow_Town]

Well, I guess I should just quit trying huh ? I'll never amount to a hog killer by those standards. BTW, theres a huge difference in South and Central Texas as far as ranch size and habitat goes. I guess comparison is really not logical, due to the differences in that are involved, but I have caught alot of 300+ pounders in traps, got several Game Wardens who can vouch for that. Didnt realize the dogs were so expensive, I guess the few I've seen were wannabes. I'll get off the soapbox, cause I'd rather act like the grown men we are. ;-)

 

[backhoeboogie]

Folks, we need to get rid of hogs period. No need for us to argue amongst ourselves. If it works for you, keep it up. I don't think dogs can take out a group of 100 quick. Generally they get one hog at a time while hunting. Traps can more. Yes you do get some that are trap smart but all you have to do is be a little smarter than the hog. Bait up the holes and put cow panels there. Rotate your traps and baited holes.

Got a good friend that does a lot of hunting with dogs. He's been after hogs for years and years. Right now he is done for a while. He took a big boar and it cost him injury to every one of those dogs. Says this was a first. He is great for clean up after the main bunch is erradiacated.

Good luck to all of you in whatever method you use.

Trapping gets the majority of them.

If you do shoot, remember the heart and lungs are encased in the armor just in front of the lower shoulder and not behind like deer are. Texasboars used to have some good pics titled, "the anatomy of hogs" that showed it all quite clearly.

Get rid of them best you can asap.

does that apply to all kinds of pigs?

I never knew that.

KNERSIE I did not know it either until I saw the photos of the anatomy at that website. Russain boar has been introduced into the wild here in the states. That contributed a lot to all the problems we are having. The Russain boar may have something to do with it. I have never paid attention in that kind of detail to domestic hogs we butchered. I haven't personally been in on putting up any domestic hogs in over 20 years. Done lots of ferals lately.

 

[mnmtranching]

Man You Texas Folks have all the fun. :roll:

 

[Brute 23]

Well, I guess I should just quit trying huh ? I'll never amount to a hog killer by those standards. BTW, theres a huge difference in South and Central Texas as far as ranch size and habitat goes. I guess comparison is really not logical, due to the differences in that are involved, but I have caught alot of 300+ pounders in traps, got several Game Wardens who can vouch for that. Didnt realize the dogs were so expensive, I guess the few I've seen were wannabes. I'll get off the soapbox, cause I'd rather act like the grown men we are. ;-)

I agree, its all good.

Traps are effective no doubt,,, especially when people know what they are doing with them. The people who don't just make the hogs trap smart. :lol:

There will always be big hogs that will not go in traps.That is where the dogs come into play. Also by running dogs on a regular basis the large packs of 30-80 sows with shoats will stay away. You will get some big boars that roam up in there but you can run them out or kill them with the dogs.

Hogs are VERY smart,,, what was working here 5 years ago as far as trapping a hunting does not always work now. :shock:

 

[backhoeboogie]

Man You Texas Folks have all the fun. :roll:

:lol: It is kind of fun at first. Then you get 80 plus hogs/shoats in a pen needing water and feed, you don't want to catch any more, don't have the time, but you have to keep at it. Put them on corn for a month or so and they are excellent eating, but that gets old too. They stink. They run at you in the pen and splatter mud on you. Friends come on Saturday to get some and you help clean them. Then on Sunday and week nights too. You haul them 80 miles one way to a legal processing facility and 150 pounders only fetch about $30. You get one that's worth $300 and have to make a special trip to keep it from wrecking the pens. The list goes on and on. It all gets really old really quick.

 

[Brute 23]

This one ranch we hunt has a pin that is like 15-20ac. All they do is catch hogs and put them in there. Then when it starts getting full they go in on horse back and bring them out. It has working pins and every thing so they can bring double deckers in there and haul them out. :shock:

That is on top of the choppers they bring in and kill 300+ in like 6 hours... on top of us running dogs.

They claim that the damage subtracted from killing the hogs out of the chopper pays for the chopper.

 

[Arnold Ziffle]

I'm told that there is a guy out of Mason, Tx. that is buying a lot of feral hogs from hill country ranchers and recently has been paying 85 cents per pound live weight. He's not interested in the real small ones. Supposedly he ships them to certain Asian countries where the feral hogs are in high demand due to some sort of perceived aphrodisiac, and I guess for food value as well. Sounded like a bunch of hocus pocus to me when I first heard about it, but the ranch manager on the deer lease property I used to have near Llano is running traps like a madman and selling all that he can. So, if any of you hog catchers are reasonably close to Mason you might want to look into it.

 

[Beef11]

Its not really fair. I would love to go pork chop hunting in my neighbors backyard (don't want them on my place). What a good time. If i had less going on in life i would hunt hogs in Texas all winter. Oh well maybe next year.