Conagher
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We have a few wild hogs around. Yesterday morning I was walking over the "back 40" which I've hired a dozer guy to clear off. It extremely thick brush, trees, vines, etc. He also has one of those "environmental machines - kind of a cross between a bush hog and a tiller" that he was making paths for the dozer to work. I noticed a lot of hog tracks in the newly cleared area. As I was walking along the paths made by the environmental machine I came across a hog (or pig if you prefer), approximately 75 lbs laying on the ground. It was alive, but acted as if it's back was broke and couldn't get up. I don't think it had been there long, even though the ground was tore up a little with it kicking it's feet, there was not a lot of evidence it had been there for an extended period. I shot it to put it out of it's misery, but wonder what was wrong with it? There was no physical evidence of any injury. Could it have been the machinery pushed a tree down on it or something? It was laying in an open spot with no tree on it. Or could there be some type of disease affecting it?
Thanks!
Thanks!