Hog

[elk42]

  thecfarm

Around here a large deer will run about 250# on hoof a 300#is rare. most will
be 150# to 200#.

[Texas Ranger]

340 pounder (the hog) killed this weekend.




 

[elk42]

    Hello Ranger
    Great hog, kill all of them 
  PS do you do and trapping

[Texas Ranger]

Elk, we have trapped, murdered, killed as many as we can, best year was some where over 70 killed and trapped.  They are running over us down here.

[elk42]

   
  Man I know what you mean we have the same thing plus we have bear. They (bear) have wrecked 4 feeders to date this year.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Good Pic!  :D

[red]

I hear they got a 500 lb pig in NC

[goose63]

Texas Ranger you need some help shooting them hogs?

[Texas Ranger]

Goose, we have 20 hunters on 800 acres, and have thinned them, but virtually imposible to eliminate them.  They wonder heck and half of Georgia.

[WildDog]

  

I have got this guy and another feral boar feeding on corn and molasses out the back of my place ATM. I will give them a couple more days of free feeding and then bait them with 1080. I have 2 bait stations going but only a camera on this one. This pig is bigger than he looks, the pipe feeder is 10ft and the carcass at the back is a feral billy goat. Take no notice of time and date, I don't have it set.

[Ken]

What is the critter standing in front of the hog?

[WildDog]

What is the critter standing in front of the hog?

Red Fox, there's been 2 visiting the site each night, one with a black tipped tail and the other white tipped. They chase the molasses on the corn. There is a lot about, I only finished baiting for fox's in November. The 1080  I put out will roll these guys



 
2 foxs



 
Fox and Wedge tailed eagle

[Raider Bill]

Explain the pipe feeder please. Is it a pvc that you slice the top off?

[WildDog]

Explain the pipe feeder please. Is it a pvc that you slice the top off?

Bill, your right it's PVC. 4in x 10ft, with a glued cap and a screw cap. Drill 4 or 5, inch and a half holes along it from bottom to top. I put tape over the holes, part fill the pipe and then take the tape off. The pigs are smart enough to roll it around untill the grain falls out. After 7 to 10 days when the pigs are confidently feeding on it we then put poison on the grain.

The idea of the pipe is to keep deer and birds from eating the grain, the feeder can sit loaded in the in the paddock and monitored as an indicator of when the pigs start coming in. Determining pig activity is not always as easy as finding fresh diggings. We also look for scat, kangaroo holes in the fence with mud on the wire, tracks, wallows in the dams, mud rubs and tuskings on trees and predation of lambs etc.