Too Many Hogs

[FishDFly]

You think you have too many hogs?
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RDE

 

[faw3]

By next year thats about what it will look like here in parts of East Texas. Ive never seen that many in one place for sure but we are about to have a real problem when 20 to 30 try to knock your fence down to get at the cat and dog food. ( I guess) The newspaper here said some farmers fields would be gone over night with up to 100 hogs eating at once. Fred :hatsoff: (cute way he put his location on that pic under his pic on side)

 

[PreglerD]

As I told in your topic about hogs in GE we have comparable problems with hogs. Especially in areas of eastern GE and northern part were big corn and potatoe fields are. A group of hogs in a corn field will completely desert it.Not even electric fences might prevent them. The only way is good planed hunting over the years. Very necessary is that you don't destroy the social structure of the groups by hunting. So the rule is when shooting one out of a group "start with the weakest", it follows normally at the end of the group. Never shoot at the biggest, because this is the mother deer. When you will do this the group will be totally confused and out of leading. Then it will spread around at make much more damage. But when you hunt as I told the mother pigs will notice the places where they have lost one of their children as a dangerous place and won't come again for some time. Very necessary are baits with corn. They must be placed this way that the pigs have no need to go to corn fields. Further more ask the farmers not to plant corn fields not close to forests where the hogs live, because then it is easy for them to change from forest to field nearly unseen.

These were a few tips how in GE the problem is tried to get solveed.