What's being done to control these critters. The folks who relocate them for profit should be put in with them when caught. If 70% of the population isn't eliminated each year the population never is reduced.
Feral Hogs
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They are a scourge and here to stay unfortunately.
I've been battling them for about 30 yrs. now on my property. I trap them, shoot them, snare them, run them with dogs on occasion. But they just keep making more.
Have kind of an ongoing thread about that here:
Not again.......! Feral Hog Control in East Texas
It never ends! We just got rid of one sounder, now (a month later)….there is a new group. This is just one area they have rooted up in the pasture (there are others): I have managed to get this group baited into a “lane” between our property and the neighbor. For...
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Would there be a market to process these pigs into sausage, hot dogs, etc.? My understanding that most wild boar meat isn't the most tasty and can have a higher rate of parasites than farm grown. Yet I was wondering if processing the meat would help with those issues and in the current market with livestock being reduced due to drought, if this would be a feasible market to add a small amount of food into the supply chain and reduce an issue?
Some people eat them. Other than during hunting season, wild game isn't usually processed at commercial butchers.
At this point, they are spreading because they reproduce fairly quickly. Funny enough, there is a secondary market for people who "hunt" them ... well "shoot" them in fenced areas. Not my cup of tea.
At this point, they are spreading because they reproduce fairly quickly. Funny enough, there is a secondary market for people who "hunt" them ... well "shoot" them in fenced areas. Not my cup of tea.
In Texas....Feral Hogs can not be processed at the same time commercial butchers are processing domestic livestock. This is true even for Deer. Pretty much ALL feral hogs are sold to State Approved 'holding stations' and are sold to Asian Markets.
With respect to shooting hogs behind fenced areas....that applies only to Hunting Preserves (in Texas). And that is a product of TAHC rules concerning the transportation of Feral Hogs. Female hogs can not be transported or relocated at ALL except to be taken to a State Approved holding facility to be sold later (butchered).
Male/Boar hogs can be sold to hunting preserves, but must be individually marked/identified and MUST be contained behind swine-proof fencing.
On other private property (in Texas) you can find all the Feral Hog hunting you want. No license is required (on private property with landowner consent) and that applies to residents or non-residents.
They *hogs' may hunted by any legal means, day or night, no bag limits.
So....if your 'cup of tea' is not hunting behind a fenced area (which could be up to 10 sq. miles anyway) then just don't go there. There are plenty of low fenced/no fenced ranches to hunt them.
Not allowed under TAHC rules (of which there are many) without extraordinary measures (being held a certain number of days, inspected several times, etc, etc). The commercial processing of Feral Hogs in the U.S. just simply isn't worth it. Nearly all are sold to Asian Markets.
I like that drop net idea. But relocating them should be a crime.
Once they are in the net, let the shooting begin. No, it's not hunting. It's eradication.
There's a very cool video on YouTube of a guy setting up a Tannerite bomb, baiting around it, and then waiting for the hogs to gather 'round. He got 5 out of 9, IIRC, which is not too bad compared to shooting.
Once they are in the net, let the shooting begin. No, it's not hunting. It's eradication.
There's a very cool video on YouTube of a guy setting up a Tannerite bomb, baiting around it, and then waiting for the hogs to gather 'round. He got 5 out of 9, IIRC, which is not too bad compared to shooting.
Several years ago some russian bores got out of hunting place,, and this is the first good thing I have seen the PaGC do in a long time,, they issued a KOS, order on all hogs, I dont think any of them made it through deer season
Mark BX25D wrote:
"Once they are in the net, let the shooting begin. No, it's not hunting. It's eradication."
Yes, NOT hunting at all and of course no claims made as such as you well understand. It is 'slaughter' pure and simple and no Land Owner that I know will make any apologies for it.
I would not use the word 'eradication' in the same sentence as Feral Hogs....as it is wishful thinking at best, but an effort to reduce their numbers is always practiced.
We use pen traps...then dispatch everything caught. Its a never ending battle where I live. Repairing property and keeping the hogs at bay. Futile.
"Once they are in the net, let the shooting begin. No, it's not hunting. It's eradication."
Yes, NOT hunting at all and of course no claims made as such as you well understand. It is 'slaughter' pure and simple and no Land Owner that I know will make any apologies for it.
I would not use the word 'eradication' in the same sentence as Feral Hogs....as it is wishful thinking at best, but an effort to reduce their numbers is always practiced.
We use pen traps...then dispatch everything caught. Its a never ending battle where I live. Repairing property and keeping the hogs at bay. Futile.
Vast majority get 'recycled' natures way. Coyotes and Buzzards clean them up within 48 hrs. Nothing but a few bones and hide left.
Occasionally, someone will want one to butcher....and I am happy to let them have as many as they like.
But few (if any) folks in my county don't already have a freezer full (if they want the meat resource).
On average....I will dispatch between 75 and 100 Feral Hogs per year on just my property....with just me doing the hunting, trapping, snaring. That's how bad the problem is.
A few years back there were reports of feral hogs near here. The state had a concerted effort to eliminate them. There was an idea someone had transported them up from the south and wanted to generate an income for hunting them. State game official told me they were checking DNA to determine their origin.
local guy traps them then slaughters them on his place. Gives the meats to the local men's ministry drug rehab place, who then smoke em, then sell different parts to the public. He traps/gives about 300 hogs a year. That's all they can take. I often run out there and buy those awesome smoked pork butts. It might be worth looking into if you have that many and don't know what to do with em.
BTW the sows are much better meat than them old boars.
BTW the sows are much better meat than them old boars.
Got an invite from a rancher in Texas to come and hunt hogs. He said he would even supply the ammo and beer. What calibers are you using to hunt these?
In my State (Texas) this would not be legal (sale of Feral Pig Meat) without the animal having first been quarantined, inspected at least twice and approved. TAHC forbids it and the USDA will not allow wild hog meat to be donated to food banks.
An individual can give the meat resource to another private citizen and they can do as they wish with it (within the confines of the law) but selling it (un-inspected) is not lawful.