PIG!

[RedRocker]

Eddie, are you sure those aren't small Bison?

 

[EddieWalker]

Eddie, are you sure those aren't small Bison?

You remind me of a funny story. Last spring, Steph and the kids came home well after dark. While driving in on our driveway, she spots what she thinks is the biggest hog in the world!!! She and the kids come running inside to tell me about how HUGE this hog was, and that it was at the end of our driveway as they drove up, but that it went out to the feeder.

The were very excited about the size of this thing!!!!

We went out back with the spotlight to get a better look at this massive hog, only to see two of them. Easily a thousand pounds each. Then I realized that something wasn't quite right with them. It was dark out, they were two hundred yards away, but they were not pigs. Then it hit me, they were cows. Somehow, two cows had walked into our place from parts unknown.

To add to the fun, there was at least 20 hogs out there in the field with them. They are usually pretty concentrated on the corn in the feeder, but this time they were spread out all over the field. In just about every direction that I shined the spot light, there was a hog or several. Some were rooting around, others were chasing each other around.

The cows just sort of ignored the hogs and ate the grass. But when the hogs left, the cows followed them.

The next day I backtracked them to realze that they came in through our front gate on the State Highway. They walked down our driveway and straight to the field with the hogs in it. The followed the hogs off of our property and onto my neighbors land. They have never been seen since, and I never saw anything about somebody looseing two black cows with white markings on their faces.

To add to the story, during deer season, somebody shot a 5x5 bull elk about five miles from our place, along the Sabine River.

Now we always joke about what we'll see out here next.

Eddie

 

[EastTexFrank]

Eddie, are you sure those aren't small Bison?

I'm not too far from Eddie. We don't have any around the house - yet, but at the farm, about 6 miles away, 450 pound and bigger boar hogs aren't unusual at all. They're not afraid of people and it's only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. They've attacked or chased a couple of people but so far no injuries. They will however attack and kill dogs. One of the farm dogs came in one day with an 18" gash along it's side and the other one never did come back. That's the reason that I drive around the farm these days with a 30-30 or scoped .243 on the seat beside me.

 

[asylum575]

That's the reason that I drive around the farm these days with a 30-30 or scoped .243 on the seat beside me.

Man, I gotta move to where the stars are bright.

That would never fly up here in NY.

 

[EddieWalker]

... We don't have any around the house - yet, ...

I killed this one from my sons bedroom window. It was 25 feet from the house and had been eating our birdseed for about a week. First attempt to open the door just spooked it. Sneeking aroung the house didn't work either. Unlocking the window to open it scared it off also. Finally, I got it all figured out, I took off the screen to on the window and had the window unlocked, but closed enough to keep bugs out.

Eddie

 

[MossRoad]

I killed this one from my sons bedroom window. It was 25 feet from the house and had been eating our birdseed for about a week. First attempt to open the door just spooked it. Sneeking aroung the house didn't work either. Unlocking the window to open it scared it off also. Finally, I got it all figured out, I took off the screen to on the window and had the window unlocked, but closed enough to keep bugs out.

Eddie

Good Grief Eddie! I thought moles were bad!

 

[pennwalk]

Jim,
Looking at the thumb nail of your picture I was seeing a light blue alien walking across your back yard. I'm going to have to knock off having take out chinese for dinner. Oh yeah I saw in the paper that PA is opening season year round on pigs here too.

Chris

 

[JESSE1]

I was driving to work early one morning on I-20 when I passed over a large area of pavement that was literally covered with blood for a distance of maybe 100 feet. It looked like a massacre. I figured a few deer had been hit but it was a group of wild pigs that had been hit by an 18 wheeler. Probably 5 or 6. It would have totaled out a car.
Saw a pickup with a trailer today and there was a hog trap on the trailer with 2 wild hogs in it. Wild pigs are a big problem in this area.

 

[kossetx]

Jim, I offer my condolences to you and your land.

I'm really a live and let live person, I move copperheads from under the house to the woods when I work there and they've bid one of my dogs twice. I pick up spiders that ahve made it indoor and put them outside. I feed crows and squirrels just like I do the cardinals and finches.

I shoot ferrel pigs.

They can do so much damage to my pasture it's hard to believe. My 40hp tractor and loader can't do what a pigs snout can do to the ground. They can move an amazing amount of bermuda covered dirt and whats really amazing is they can do it when it's dry out. Once they tear an acre of land up it is hard to get it back to level, and to get the coastal bermuda back. They also help cause silting of my pond because they tear the banks up while wallowing in the mud.

They do however keep my creek bottom fairly clear now.

They're fairly fun when they first show up. Game, food, etc. To me, that dissappeared after a short while.

Hope it's better for you.

 

[jinman]

They're fairly fun when they first show up. Game, food, etc. To me, that dissappeared after a short while.

Hope it's better for you.

Mark, I checked my camera again yesterday and there was the same pig again on several days. The pictures aren't very good, so I won't waste TBN bandwidth, but the pattern is the pig showing up just after dark and again around midnight. In two weeks, only one pig has ever been in a picture. I think this is the pig of a careless neighbor and I'm going to trap it or shoot it before it finds "buddies" to show how to get back to our place. It's just a bit too dark for a good shot, so I may try to rig a light I can turn on. The flash doesn't seem to frighten the pig, so I think a small floodlight might work okay. If that doesn't work, I'll try the trap. I'd really like to trap him because then I could plan how to get him made into sausage patties.