So you will have to dispose of 400 lb of pig maybe more. Now that has got to be fun. Is your place big enough to haul out into the woods and let the vultures do the removal?

Oh the movie link did not work to well.

You could always stick it head on a pike as a warning to the heard.

We think they hang on the back 40 so killing and leaving would be ok, the only problem I see is other critters coming around b/c there’s a new HEB in town.

I'd say you got your $20 worth. A bit of advice,make sure hunter carry's insurance to cover an unintentional tort. From a practical standpoint,something might be gained by leaving them lay for coyotes and dogs who may develop a taste for hogs and begin chasing them. Not a good idea if domestic hogs are raised within a few miles.

Those guys are small so they are most likely quite tasty.

Those are not our pigs. He just sent us a “sales video and pics”, so to speak and we’re gonna do it.

klem, good insight re: coyotes developing a taste for hog meat.

most likely quite tasty

GMTA. I was going to suggest disposing of them with fajita marinade and a grill.

"good insight re: coyotes developing a taste for hog meat."

I'm serious. It's very common for dogs and coyotes to live in peace alongside livestock,,,,,,,,until opportunity alow's them to eat one of the animals. After that they begin preying on them.

Klem1 I took you seriously and agree with you totally.

DH killed a young male years ago and had it made into sausage and steaks. We eventually tossed the steaks b/c too lean and tough. Sausage was good but rendering place had to add lots regular pork. We wouldn’t kill another for personal care based motion unless dire circumstances dictated.

Pork is better slow cooked , not as steaks.

Can they bulldog their way through a barbwire fence?

From my father having raised hogs in the past, yes (to passing barbwire fence)...either just breaking fence, or digging under.

"Can they bulldog their way through a barbwire fence?"

At top speed when spooked. Blindfolded at mid-night on the dark of moon when on a normal food prowl.

Well, just another glaring example of the devastating effects of invasive species! As none of these feral hogs were native to North America...but purposely imported by the early European colonialists repeatedly over the last half-millenia, DOH!!!

"Wild pigs were first brought to the southern U.S. in the 1500s as a source of food for early explorers and settlers, and repeated introductions occurred thereafter. In the 1900s, the Eurasian or Russian wild boar was introduced to the U.S. for sport hunting. Today’s invasive wild pigs are the descendents of introduced wild boar, escaped domestic pigs, and hybrids of the two."

And as a result, they have no natural predators here. And their few native predators here (big cats & dogs) have already largely been exterminated, so hardly make a dent in them...

So, this was an entirely manmade disaster!

Problem is that in ecology, you can't unring a bell. The only real solution was to prevent it to begin with... Which was completely and easily preventable back then - but wholesale ignorance prevailed amongst the ecologically short-sighted, just as it still does today...

A big hog can put his snout on the bottom wire and push up, removing all the staples. An electric fence would work as long as there were no weak spots. Remember, a hog can weigh over 500 pounds.

I uploaded about ten posts above. Somebody tell me if they can watch. I don’t know what I’m doing.

I can see the video now.

Omar

Me too.

The guy was telling me over the phone that somebody had hired him to scan and kill hogs. That night he went a-hunting, and sure enough, there were about 70 hogs grazing but he could not kill a single one b/c they were on the neighbor’s property not on the land owned by the person that hired him. A frustrated killer, ha

"he could not kill a single one b/c they were on the neighbor’s property "

Sound's like they have snitches tipping them off to danger. That guy in the video is a crack shot. I hope he keep's a close eye on that assault rifle because people claim they sneak away to cause problems.

Hubby said same about guy being great shot. “Sneak away to cause problems?” Pls explain. I know nothing about guns

LOL, Bossyvossy...'guns kill people'

You mean a bullet going astray and killing a person instead of hogs? That always seem so bizarre but I guess possible.

Unless one follow's what news media say's about assault rifles,the sneek away comment mean's nothing. Anywho,have you scheduled a time for them to scan your property? I'm interested in how successful they are in getting rid of some.

A trap could be more economical if you have over ~50 hogs...

Klem1, I will post here when the scanning is done. The hogs are nomadic and seem to visit our grounds about every 60 days. Our plan it to check for evidence of recent damage and call the guy. Right now it seems quiet though it doesn’t cost anything if scan leads to zero kills but busy w/other things.

blakrab, we used to have a large trap but since we don’t live there permanently, it would be too inhuman to trap and leave trap unattended.

My neighbor tried trapping in my gorge where they like to hang out, and had no luck , but he did shoot 4 and the lion got two. some of them were over 400 lbs.

Everyone should have a lion hanging out in back to thin the herd. NOT!

Mara, you mean one like this???

Strangely, that one seems just a tad bit small.

No, an ordinary mountain lion.

Well if everyone had a lion , that would be an awful lot of mountain lions. This one makes himself pretty scarce. He visits every couple of years or so. I haven't seen his tracks for about three years.

Any luck bossyvossy? We have seen some hog damage on our land which also borders two creeks. There was a post on Texas Bowhunters Forum from someone looking for someone with a hog problem who wouldn't mind him hunting. Our acreage is too small; I think our best bet is to try to fence them out.

Things have been quiet, we have not called the guy for a scan. We have noticed that there seems to be feral hog presence following raining spells, I guess easier to dig for insects? Time to scan may be getting close...

Just remember, I've heard that wild hogs usually taste better than store bought pork. Waste not, want not.

If landowners would cooperate,I have an idea that could help immensely. Sounders are nomadic so by the time damage is noticed,traps are set and hunters are called,hogs have moved on. As is human nature,after 2 or 3 weeks of maintaining traps and losing sleep going out at night in search of hogs without success,people give up. Time passes and just when you think they left your place for good,they destroy a piece of ground and are gone again. Porky and Petunia deserve their own face page with landowners as friends. Landowners report date of and size of damage so that movements can be mapped and predicted. As they are nearing an area,hunters and trappers concentrate efforts in that area. What say y'all?

I actually think there is an informal tracking system. It’s called ranchers/farmers sitting at the local cafe and bitching about previous night’s damage....

Ain't that the truth. I went traveling to New Mexico and stayed at the only motel in 200 miles in the town of Quemado. The cafe was full the next morning with all the ranchers and I knew where the elk was and wasn't , bitching about visiting hunters) who had recent lion kill. who got frost (it was late october), whose goats had mastitis. Who didn't get their peppers and tomatoes collected in time. This cafe was THEspot. Good coffee too. Probably why it was THE spot. No women there though. They were probably home still doing chores. Maybe they have THEIR spot somewhere else that had better pie. Pie was good here.

Pie town is the next town.....LOL 200 miles away.

Yet, when you become part of Nature (by "raising your frequency" like reputedly through opening your pineal gland or temporarily by taking Ayahuasca/DMT, etc)...
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What would you do if a mountain lion sought refuge in your living room? If you’re Facebook user Lauren Taylor, you apparently use telepathy to calm down the animal and make sure it has a comfy place to take a nap. Earlier this month, while apparently trying to seek refuge from wildfires in Oregon, a mountain lion entered Taylor’s home after drinking from her fountain outside of her back door. According to Taylor, the cat tried to leave through a closed window after somebody in the house screamed and then hid behind the sofa. But instead of trying to shoo the animal outside—or running, hiding, and calling the cops on the potentially dangerous animal—Taylor said she had a better idea: try to communicate with it on a telepathic level.

Cats are extremely psychic and perceptive of energy and this lion could have been dangerous in an energy field of fear or anger. In fact, before I consciously elevated the energy field and entrained her to a theta state, a housemate had shouted and slammed a door upon seeing her and the lion was frightened, agitated, and determined to exit through a closed window. Once the energy shifted, she calmed down.

When she was so quiet and it was obvious from the position of her feet on the wall that she was laying down, I went outside to see through the window what she was doing. She was sleeping! When I made noise, she woke up and looked startled so I consciously raised my frequency, gazed lovingly into her eyes, and communicated using feline-speak eye blinking to calm her. It was amazing to realize that this worked. I gazed lovingly then blinked hard and then she did it back! Then, she went back to sleep.

When the animal woke up, Taylor wrote that “I again connected in a loving way,” and communicated to the animal through blinking. The animal, then, returned to her slumber. Taylor wrote that the lion slept behind the sofa for more than six hours. Here’s how Taylor said she got the mountain lion to exit the house.

Wrote Taylor: “It was just a couple hours to dawn and we needed to prompt her to leave without alarming her so much that she panicked. I sent telepathic pictures of the routes out of the house via open doors and the route out the backyard, across the creek, through an open field, and back up into the hills. We got guidance that the way to rouse her and get her to leave her safe spot behind the sofa without panicking was through drumming. We called in native ancestors’ support and started drumming. She roused and knew just what to do…. walking out through the open doors, through the yard, across the creek, and through the empty field behind us exactly as we had shown her.”

Taylor wrote she’s confident the mountain lion won’t be back and “it was a perfect ending to a blessed encounter that could have been dangerous if approached from a lower frequency.”
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Now, what if we all got to the point where we could all coexist and commune with Nature this way?

Wow -- what a story! The green links show photos. Would that we all could remain as cool, calm and collected should a wild animal come into our home. Shades of St. Francis, but unfortunately most of us aren't there ... yet. But as this story shows ... some are.

As this person points out in her story:

"I've been urged to point out that I have extensive experience working with energy and animals and I'm not suggesting anyone seek out interactions with mountain lions."

Whatever, it's certainly a better defense than panic.

Vossy,if you decide to try hog whispering,you best do some poodle dog whispering before letting porky in the house. That doggie would not welcome them without some persuading first.

" Hubs chased 50 or so this morning w/his truck."

Sound's like fun,wish I had been with him. (:

Wow Bossy, you'd need high capacity rifle to try and get as many of them. Ar-10 chambered for .308 would do the trick. Still haven't seen them by my house yet. Still having problems with skunks, armadillo, deer, and squirrels.. A deer apparently dared to get onto my front yard and found my dwarf Shantung Maple tasty and ate most of the leaves... :-( Have to move it to backyard for protection... I nearly bumped into a skunk that was hanging out on the back porch a month ago (light was off). I'm so glad I did not get sprayed on!

Kritters seem bolder than usual this year

I called the guy and he’s busy clearing weeds on river bottoms. Must be some type of croc Dundee, east TX style, ha. We shall wait.

It seem if you have a machine gun , one could wipe a few out with a burst or two.