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Post by 3LT Farms on Jan 9, 2020 18:53:21 GMT -6
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Post by backhoeboogie on Jan 9, 2020 21:51:56 GMT -6
They have a picture at the feed store in Glen Rose, Texas of feral hogs. It takes me about 20 minutes and I count 165 or so. The owner of the feed store always tells me I am about a dozen short.
My guess is MO doesn’t have an epidemic yet. Cemeteries destroyed ? 9,500 doesn’t seem like many.
If they’re curbing eradication, populations are going to explode. We went from none to pastures looking like they had been carpet bombed overnight. I trapped 43 in my best week ever and didn’t put a dent in it.
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Post by the illustrious potentate on Jan 10, 2020 5:02:19 GMT -6
Seems they come and go around here. Fire into them a few times and trap a few and they'll be gone for several months.
But then they start creeping back in.
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Post by Allenw on Jan 10, 2020 15:57:12 GMT -6
Missouri has a serious hog eradication program I believe they feel people hunting them messes up their pattern making their efforts less effective.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jan 10, 2020 16:09:42 GMT -6
Maybe so.
Years ago, here in Florida, the pythons became a huge problem. For a few years the state put a damn season on the things and were charging for licensing in order to kill one. You would think it would be the other way around, there should be a bounty on them. Now, things have changed greatly, and they are begging people to kill them.
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Post by angusrancher on Jan 10, 2020 16:13:40 GMT -6
Some cold winter does have an upside, apparently. Controls all kinds of species.
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Post by randy on Jan 10, 2020 16:44:21 GMT -6
Arkansas has banned hunting them about the same as Mo. You can still kill a wild hog on state and federal land here as long as its in a season that open like deer season.
Its also again the law to transport a wild hog here. We can still hunt them any time and any way on private land here in Arkansas. Our Game and Fish management team in this area are hell on hogs. They will bring there traps and trap on the land owners request.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jan 10, 2020 16:51:58 GMT -6
We can't move them here without the appropriate permits. Everything goes on private land except poisoning. State land has to be in a specific season, which I think is bullshit. They just don't want to patrol year round is my guess. Problem gets worse and I'm sure some minds will change on that.
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Post by randy on Jan 11, 2020 7:07:15 GMT -6
Our management team here has averaged trapping and killing more than 1000 head a year for the last 5 to 6 years. They are doing alot more work on private land now than in the past. As more land owners make use of AGF and there high tech traps we are seeing a decline in feral hog numbers. You know your winning when the hog hunters are complaining about not finding hogs to hunt.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jan 11, 2020 7:53:31 GMT -6
I don't think the State of Florida cares at this point, which is sad. Florida has a huge population of feral hogs and only getting worse. The Farm Bureau has taken up the charge and offering traps in a loaner program to anyone that wants to use one, they just don't have enough to go around or to do enough good.
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Post by randy on Jan 11, 2020 12:36:14 GMT -6
We also have some trappers working with the UofA threw NRCS. I have not seen where they do much. The AGF team hammers them hard. They have the patience to wait till the whole sounder goes in the trap. Largest one night catch on one property that i know of was 75 head. Property owner had been allowing hog hunters to come in and hunt them. When they were dragging the hogs out of the traps there was some bars and sows with dog chewed ears. He shut the hog hunters down after that.
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Post by 3LT Farms on Jan 11, 2020 14:36:40 GMT -6
I think the dog hunters have created some of, if not most of the problems around here. Stories of hogs coming from down south by cattle trailer loads back in the 90s. Now they are everywhere. I've trapped and shot pigs that were cut and then released. Seen ears almost gone from dogs, catch and release ought to be punishable by law.
Solving the problem will take a lot of creativity. Opening up a market for them to be used as dog food would help here. I've heard of places in Texas doing it.
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Post by Allenw on Jan 12, 2020 11:17:02 GMT -6
Transporting and deer feeders have a lot to do with the spread of feral hogs.
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Post by bbirder on Jan 12, 2020 18:32:53 GMT -6
Niece was trying for catch and release, but she mssed.
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Post by Allenw on Jan 12, 2020 20:10:56 GMT -6
I seen about 25 hogs on a field just west of me tonight.
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