Mowing wild hogs

[Dead Horse]

If you want an idea of the damage hogs can cause; blindfold a hyperactive teenager, give them a big rototiller, and have them run all over the place with it until the gas tank goes dry.

Cept pigs don't run out of gas...........

 

[jonyyuma]

If you want an idea of the damage hogs can cause; blindfold a hyperactive teenager, give them a big rototiller, and have them run all over the place with it until the gas tank goes dry.

What a description, I like it , especially since they dug a wallow as deep and long as an old footed bath tub in the side of my pond. It actually was three chambers dug in sucession as the level of the water dropped? I really like all the photos of hogs here?

 

[crackerjack222]

A few years ago I let my neighbor trap hogs on my place in south Central Tx. In six weeks he trapped and sold 56 hogs. He moved away soon after that and I began trapping and selling them. The fellow buying them shut down and then I had to take them about 40 miles to sell them. I decided it was costing more in $$ and time than I wanted to spend. I now just shoot them. I have always considered myself a conscentious (sp) hunter but these things are just so destructive that I dont consider them a game animal, just trash.

There was (is?) a place in Devine TX that was buying them for slaughter. They said they sold the meat in Europe as "Texas Wild Boar".:laughing:

They have torn up my 20 acre hay pasture so often and so bad that I have quit trying to raise grass for hay. I once had one jump out (over the side) of the cattle trailer that I was hauling them in.
I normally carry an AR-15 at the ranch. Several times I have gotten into a bunch of them. At the first shot, they scatter in all directions. Twice I have been able to kill four out of a group before emptying my 7 shot magazine.

 

[Cantoo]

We have them here in Ontario, Canada too. Escaped from a game farm that is. Owner said 20 or so escaped. I shot 2 several years but only recovered the smaller one. I wounded the bigger one but was too chicken to run into the heavy bush in the dark after him. The pic looks fake but it was real. The tractor is a ford 1520 and 2 guys had to help the loader lift it high enough for the pic. I took him to be mounted but the guy "lost" the head. Prickthathewasandis.

 

[moored4]

I took him to be mounted but the guy "lost" the head. Prickthathewasandis.

I have done some taxedermey (sp) work when i was young and had hair slip on a hide but how do you lose a skull! I bet its on a book shelf in his home are he sold it to some want to be! Sorry for your misfortune!

 

[deereman75]

Would a 4 strand barb wire fence be able to stop the hogs? Or would they just climb/push through it?

 

[k0ua]

Would a 4 strand barb wire fence be able to stop the hogs? Or would they just climb/push through it?

It will not. Woven wire or "hog wire" will usually keep back domestic pigs, but not because they can't root under it, but because they probably don't want to miss out on the food on the inside. I doubt woven wire would even slow down a determined feral pig.

James K0UA

 

[deereman75]

It will not. Woven wire or "hog wire" will usually keep back domestic pigs, but not because they can't root under it, but because they probably don't want to miss out on the food on the inside. I doubt woven wire would even slow down a determined feral pig.

James K0UA

Is there anything that will really stop them? I remember my dad telling me that the pigs he had on the farm as a kid had figured out how to climb over the 6 foot tall fence, and would escape to go eat the spilled grain from around the grainerys. I guess if a 6 foot tall rail fence wouldnt stop domestic pigs, not much would stop the wild hogs.

 

[JoeinTX]

"Is there anything that will really stop them?"

Traditional ranching net wire (what is also called goat wire or a goat fence) we have found does little to slow them down. They push through or under it without a whole lot of trouble.

To actually "pig proof" any area we have resorted to steel cattle panels firmly attached to driven or concreted metal posts...or trees. This is not economical for large scale fencing at all so it's only used around things like deer feeders, etc.

They pretty much go wherever the like since traditional and economical fencing materials do little to deter them.

 

[creekbend]

I have eaten armidillo a couple times James and I liked it, slowcooked in its own "shell" was best but bbqed was good too but then what isnt good bbqed?

I just came across your post and I agree. I have eaten armadillo several times. We always cooked the meat in a cast iron dutch oven seasoned with BBQ sauce, salt, pepper and a little molasses. Slow cooking results in the meat being tender and actually tastes similar to pulled pork. I remember my Father telling me that his Father, my Grandfather, called them "Hoover Hogs". They evidently got this name due to the devastating results of the Great Depression and the lack of meat from domestic animals. With some cooked red potatoes, carrots, celery, and some baked corned bread, it is definitely a tasty meal. There are probably some critics that will state that eating armadillo meat must be an acquired taste. But cooked in the manner that I previously stated, it is hard to distinguish the difference between it and pork. Just my opinion or maybe my "Country Boy" taste buds at work.:licking: