Repairing Hog Damage in a Pasture

[jwmorris]

We were covered up with them before I built some remote controlled traps. Even the neighbors will come by and shoot them, once I drop the gates on them, if I am not around.

Once you get enough of them in one spot, it becomes blood soaked and avoided by pigs, just feeding everything else then. So I made a sectional trap that could be moved around and that does the trick at getting a lot of them but it still takes an hour to break it down, move it and set it back up.

Well worth it up until 4G service ended and my setups became obsolete.

I'm now using WIFI triggers and cameras but they lack the range I could get with 4G and even it was limiting here.

Clean up, around here is done by lots of scavengers.

You can kill 30 pigs, drag them to "the spot" and not see a bone within 50 yards, in 5 days.

 

[EddieWalker]

A trap like that is probably the best way to get rid them. I thought about building one, but then decided to build a better fence to keep them out since I need a fence anyway.

 

[rockinbbar]

A trap like that is probably the best way to get rid them. I thought about building one, but then decided to build a better fence to keep them out since I need a fence anyway.

Yessir!

A well maintained net wire fence is the apple a day that keeps the hogs away.

 

[Gregster613]

If my wife or I shoot one, and it's in the 100 pound range, we'll usually pull the hams and backstraps off of them because it's quick and easy. When my buddy shoots them, I might pull the hams and backstraps, but it depends on how long they have been dead. He pulls them to an area that we call the bone yard and leaves them there as bait for coyotes. If he can shoot a coyote instead of a hog, that's even better!!!!

We use the meat to make dog food in the crock pot. Our dogs love it!!!

I've never used a thermal, and all the hogs that I've shot have been in daylight. My best ever was getting three of them out of a group. I've also shot two with one shot, but that took longer then I thought it would for them to line up just right.

With all hunting, I've found that it's more fun for me when my wife gets one.

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Good picture Eddie! Your wife looks like a Happy Hunter!

 

[jwmorris]

A trap like that is probably the best way to get rid them. I thought about building one, but then decided to build a better fence to keep them out since I need a fence anyway.

They walk right through the standard barbed wire fence we use for cattle, just like all the other small critters.

What have you built that keeps them out?

Piglets will even walk right out of those traps, unless you get lucky when dropping the gates.

 

[EddieWalker]

I have 2x4 No Climb Horse fence that's working great at keeping the hogs out. It's also a great fence for keeping goats in!!!!

 

[jwmorris]

On the repairing damage side we have typically used a disk and chain harrow for large areas.

Some years ago, I built a land plane that I think works well on spots.

This weekend I laid out my next try. This one is the width of our disk, 3ft narrower than the harrow but is 27 ft long and about 2000 lbs. Has 6" of skid on both sides. Hopefully it can just knock down the high spots better.

 

[jwmorris]

I have 2x4 No Climb Horse fence that's working great at keeping the hogs out. It's also a great fence for keeping goats in!!!!

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What's that cost per foot?

 

[EddieWalker]

Off the top of my head, I think materials where around $3.50 a foot. The hardest part is clearing the trees.

 

[MH8675309]

When the sow has 10 piglets or more a few times a year that could be hard to keep up with