Hogs in hay field

Hammer house · Nov 7, 2013

We have A little hay field between my house and my son s house. Hogs been rooting in it. My grand son-in-law likes to trap. Wed. morning after A big rain before noon one found the corn in the trap. The gate close.He got one.

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Ultradog MN · Nov 7, 2013

We don't have them here so I don't know a lot about them. Will you eat him of just dispose of it?
Seems like a nice size to put in the freezer.

rabbit-1 · Nov 7, 2013

They"re edible - if properly taken care of after taken. Just like any other game. May taste different than a corn fed porker in the store - you are what you eat!

danofarming · Nov 7, 2013

Keep moving the trap around Hogs get wise very quick.

dcarp · Nov 7, 2013

Good job.

dcarp · Nov 7, 2013

Good job. Like Dano said below, once you trap one move the trap. They won't come back to the place one got trapped.
Also if you bait the trap and don 't set it to trip they will get used to it then you set it to trip and odds are you will catch more than one.

Hammer house · Nov 7, 2013

I do not eat them my self. Lots of people do eat them. They say that the wild hog taste differnce from A reg. feed hog. The young man that caught this one is going to make sausage from him
He was A young hog.

photo of same hog.

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JWalker · Nov 7, 2013

It has been my experience if you bury the bottom of the trap they will go into it much easier. For me they would eat bait right up to the entrance, thn they would not cross the metal to go in. Once I partially buried it I started catching them.

JWalker

Nancy Howell · Nov 8, 2013

Wild hogs are a big problem in Tx. They cause over $50 million in damage to crops and pastures every year. They can root holes that are 4 ft in diameter and 3 ft deep. They've done it at our place.

We've been told there will be a bait that kills only hogs available in 2015. Hope that is correct. Really frustrating that they pick the fields we have worked and seeded for hay to root up.

We've also been told if you kill one and leave it lay, the others won't come back. I don't know if that is true.

I've eaten wild hog. It was very, very good. There are meat packers in Tx that will take wild hogs. Don't know what they do with the meat (pet food?).

Eldon (WA) · Nov 8, 2013

(quoted from post at 17:54:20 11/07/13) We have A little hay field between my house and my son s house. Hogs been rooting in it. My grand son-in-law likes to trap. Wed. morning after A big rain before noon one found the corn in the trap. The gate close.He got one.

Hammer Man

Looks like some of that good pastured pork that's all the rage right now...probably worth $10 a lb, boar taint and all LOL!

Anonymous-0 · Nov 8, 2013

You are correct on the size of holes they can dig. Year's back I had some domestic sow's gleaning a corn field and they had holes you could hardly drive the tractor over. Had to use the loader to fill some before working the ground. The good part is they were after pea vine roots which were plentiful in that particular field. After that fall they were not a problem anymore. I think they found them all.

rdandersom · Nov 9, 2013

Could be good eating depending on his actual age.Years ago we still kept a few pigs and for my money the best pork comes off a little boar at about 175 lbs live.We used to eat the ones that had hernias rather than have the vet fix them.Not to everyones taste as a nieghbour tried some and couldn't eat it but we raised 3 tall sons on young boars and guernsey beef.

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