Hog damage

[EddieWalker]

Wild hogs seem to come and go here. Sometimes you don't see any sign of them for weeks at a time, other times, they are tearing up everything, everywhere. This happened overnight and it's pretty extensive. My neighbor said that in one weekend, he counted over 300 on his 240 acres. I've never seen a group larger then 27 myself.

When I first moved here, I was excited about hunting them, but now it's just an effort to try and keep them away so I can mow and take care of the land. They are good target practice, and we use the meat in the crock pot for dog food, but I haven't eaten one years. I like beef a lot more!!!

Eventually I will build my fence around my place and they can be my neighbors problem.

 

[MossRoad]

Yikes! I've seen some TV shows about overnight damage. Pretty impressive.

 

[Molalla1]

Wild hogs seem to come and go here. Sometimes you don't see any sign of them for weeks at a time, other times, they are tearing up everything, everywhere. This happened overnight and it's pretty extensive. My neighbor said that in one weekend, he counted over 300 on his 240 acres. I've never seen a group larger then 27 myself.

When I first moved here, I was excited about hunting them, but now it's just an effort to try and keep them away so I can mow and take care of the land. They are good target practice, and we use the meat in the crock pot for dog food, but I haven't eaten one years. I like beef a lot more!!!

Eventually I will build my fence around my place and they can be my neighbors problem.

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Still like your place Eddie . . .

 

[Steppenwolfe]

What are they digging up? If you get rid of the food source maybe they won't come back?

 

[wvgca]

they seem to come out more at night ... had them for a while maybe ten years ago, some went to the rifle, others to tractor pulling harrows, gradually they stayed out of the yard , lol

 

[RNeumann]

I’ve read a lot about Night Vision and IR both on and off the rifle. Has that made it easier to control the population?

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Still like your place Eddie . . .

East Texas is a beautiful place; good people, good fishing, and good eatin'. Sharn Jean is from that neck of the woods, and we try to make it down that way at least once. Can't get along without my Pittsburg Hot links!

 

[AWSubie]

What are they digging up? If you get rid of the food source maybe they won't come back?

Hogs eat anything; from rooting for grubs to the carrion after coyote kills. On my property last year I came across about two acres that looked like it had been plowed by the hogs rooting.

 

[Molalla1]

If only I could talk the wife about relocating . . . :confused3: brother lives in SC . . . but kids live here in Oregon. I am more than ready .

 

[clemsonfor]

What are they digging up? If you get rid of the food source maybe they won't come back?

They are eating the toobers and roots of the grasses. They root up under oak trees for a acorns and will just randomly root looking for food. They eat anything so you can't eliminate everything!! I guess if you lived in a sand lot or bald clay hill.

 

[Fragger]

We trapped them for years from farmers property in our area ,traded a hog for two bags of corn and that worked out well for us. After awhile it got old :shocked: They don't call them piney wood rooters for nothing

 

[TractorGuy]

Glad they moved on from my place. Found out afterwards that my neighbor had a deer feeder spewing corn twice a day right below my place.

We trapped and killed a few and he removed the feeder so they moved on.

 

[gsganzer]

I was driving down I-45 between Dallas and Houston the other week and could see where hogs had rooted the right-a-way. We have them in our neighborhood now. The neighbor had his yard torn up.

 

[breadtrk]

Seems like the feral hog problems is a great training experience for our Guard and Reserves. They have the weapons, the ammo, the night vision, and the heavy equipment to bury the results.

 

[breadtrk]

I'll even propose that using them to work on the invasive species problem in Florida may also be good training.

 

[k0ua]

Seems like the feral hog problems is a great training experience for our Guard and Reserves. They have the weapons, the ammo, the night vision, and the heavy equipment to bury the results.

That sounds like an excellent idea..

 

[ovrszd]

We are pretty fortunate. Don't have any wildlife that is destructive in that manner.

Deer and Turkeys take their toll on the grain farmers. A problem that can't be controlled. But certainly could be reimbursed by the Wildlife Conservation Department. After all, they claim to own them when hunting is discussed. Until you hit one with your car. Then they don't.....

The city dwellers complain about goose poop at the Golf Course. But that's their fault for stocking them on their lakes and ponds.

 

[Citydude]

Being in the central flyway where we are, our area is a nesting grounds. Mother nature was here long before we were. She planted the geese.

We are pretty fortunate. Don't have any wildlife that is destructive in that manner.

Deer and Turkeys take their toll on the grain farmers. A problem that can't be controlled. But certainly could be reimbursed by the Wildlife Conservation Department. After all, they claim to own them when hunting is discussed. Until you hit one with your car. Then they don't.....

The city dwellers complain about goose poop at the Golf Course. But that's their fault for stocking them on their lakes and ponds.

 

[deerefan]

Glad they moved on from my place. Found out afterwards that my neighbor had a deer feeder spewing corn twice a day right below my place.

We trapped and killed a few and he removed the feeder so they moved on.

The deer hunters at our old place had to do the same. Since 2005 until we moved in 2018, we killed 2500+ hogs and did not make a dent. Have not seen any at our new place thankfully. Probably only a matter of time though.

 

[bullbreaker]

Rare but I have even seen them in the wider parts of the medium strip where theres some low water and some trees on I75 north of Ft Myers Fla .

We used to have alot way more of them years ago but with the eastern Collier County and Lee County expantion and the increase of the Fla panther population their numbers been taken a beating down here .

I"ll tell ya what we do have down here in se Collier County imo more so than in most states in the lower 48 are black bears .
Theres a ton of them down here . Just this week alone like 5 nites ago at approx 10:20 pm est we had four big ones all together in our front yard looking for food I guess .