Game Cam pictures

[BTDT]

Here is a picture of a barn rat I caught visiting my storage cabinet. BTW, 8NTX, never seen a bobtailed armadillo. That's pretty neat.

 

[EddieWalker]

You guys sure have some fantastic pictures!!! Thanks for sharing.

It looks like the hogs are back at the feeder again. The rains really messed them up on there schedule as it's been about a week and a half since there were here.

The first three pictures are of the same group that is always there. For awhile we've been wondering where there are during the day, but in thes pictures, there's no doubt that they are swimming the creek and spending there days on the neighbors land.

The last two pictures are of what I'm thinking is a pregnant sow. I don't reckognize this one, but she's all by herself and at the feeder over 6 hours after the other group has left. She also just looks very large in her belly.

Does anybody else think she's pregnant?

Thanks,
Eddie

 

[Bill Barrett]

Hi Eddie, I got to get a cam, just started looking at them. Hey if you ever need help getting rid of those hogs please let me know

 

[CurlyDave]

Does anybody else think she's pregnant?

Hard to tell for sure, but she could be.

I got a pregnant one once, back when I was young enough to hunt them with a knife. I sort of felt bad about taking her, but once the dogs got after her, she was a goner in any event. She was shaped about like that one, but 50-80 lbs bigger.

 

[scott_vt]

Mornin Eddie,
Not game cam, I think its called live cam Not wild trapped hogs, just trapped hogs My neighbors hogs feeding as I travel through his property to snap some shots of our house.

Just another dimension of game cam

 

[TBDonnelly]

These pictures were taken just outside Anchorage, Alaska. This family just built a new playground for their two young kids. Guess who got to use it first?

Don

 

[archerynut]

New game camera pics that I thought were interesting at least. One is a red fox that was trying to slip by undetected, the other of one big doe picking on another doe. Guess we know who is boss!!

 

[rox]

TBDonnley,
Those Alaska pics are awsome. It almost looks staged!
Thanks to everyone for posting their pics, I love this thread!

 

[gsganzer]

Here's some photo's from a camera placed near our protein feeder at our deer lease. The "spike" buck in the picture suffers from a condition called "cryptorchidism". (Other animals, such as horses, can also have this condition) The condition entails the testicles either being extremely small or in often cases, still within the gut cavity. The resulting deer are usually sterile (the testes need to be outside the body for proper sperm production) and have abnormally low testosterone levels. The low testosterone levels is what leads to the abnormal antler development. The antlers will typically retain the velvet, have poor branching and be brittle because of being poorly mineralized. In other cases, the deer will never lose his antlers and they may become abnormally large and thick.

We've been seeing a fairly large percentage of cryptorchids at our deer lease and I've been talking to some wildlife biologists about it. Essentially, they don't understand what causes it, but believe that it might be due to certain plants that contain "phytoestrogens" that affect testicular development. Statistical data seems to indicate an increase in the condition during times of drought or other stress on the native vegetation. During these times the deer may be forced to browse on secondary food sources that are causing the problem.

 

[EddieWalker]

Gordon,

How do you get the feed into that feeder? It's huge!!!! How much does it hold?

Is the concrete pad to keep the animals from eating dirt? Is it something you'd recomend?

Is the fence to keep out hogs? Do the deer just jump it to get to the corn?

Sorry for all the question.

Eddie