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Wild hogs are a real problem around,rooting up farm land and being a problem on the roads and hiways.Caused a lot of damage to cars,including rollovers.Sort of open season on wild hogs.any problems like that in your area??????????

No problem with wild hogs in northern Ohio we eat'em with a little barbaque sauce before for they can get that way.

We've had the same problem with wild hogs.

The have rooted up a large area around the "Ragan" house, down in the bottom, and a couple of places in the "corner".

Put out traps with no success.

No recent signs of them anywhere.

YES!!!!!! They have torn up three areas on our farm. One spot, at least the size of 1/2 acre, to the point it looks like it was bombed. The first time this happened, James smoothed it out, but they came back and tore up again even worse.

They leave holes 4+ feet in diameter and up to 2 ft deep. Our damage is minor compared to some of our neighbors.

In some places the hogs are so bad, people can"t let their kids out to play in the yard because the hogs come right up to the house. The hogs can be down right nasty if you happen to come across them. Everyone I have talked to hates them. People have reported seeing hog "herds" of anywhere from 30 to 70 hogs.

I no longer take walks around our property because of the hogs. I put a bell on the cinch for my saddle because I didn"t want to ride up on a group of them.

We had a fellow set up a trap and even though he did manage to trap one or two, they dug out because his trap didn"t have a floor. In many areas they have become "trap smart" and will avoid a trap regardless of the bait used.

I stumbled across a website, http://icwdm.org "Internet Center for Wildlife Damage Management". They had an article by TX A&M on hogs. The article stated Tx A&M had surveyed ranchers/farmers about wild hogs expecting to find some positive remarks due to fees charged for hunting privileges. According to the article, absolutely no one surveyed had anything good to say about the wild hogs. Every single person considered them a serious threat to their operation.

The unfortunate summation of the article was that at best, the population might be maintained or slightly reduced through trapping and hunting, but eradication was not likely.

This article was several yrs old and I would be very interested in seeing an updated report on the problem of wild hogs.

I would like to see an "environmental impact study" on the hogs. There is no telling how much damage they have had on the land and natural wildlife. The damage estimate would have to run in the millions.

Ken
don't know where you are in texas but i got a grandson that hunts hog for a living ranchers pay him pretty good to thin em out. maybe some in your area doing the same thing the drought this summer seemed to concentrate em more in certain spots.

Out here in California we used to, but over the last 20 years he have had a dramatic increase the Mt. Lion population and with this came a similiar decrease in wild hog problems.

They are not a problem yet on our side of the Cape Fear River, but they are on the other side. A lot of guys over there catch them and eat them. I just bought some feeder pigs from a teenage boy that came from some sows he caught. They look like Durocs to me. If I understand correctly, some of the wild hogs in other states are a mix of feral hogs and European wild hogs, but the ones here are simply feral domestic hogs.

i'm putting up 29" hog wire around whole place...back when diesel was over $4.00 a gallon it didnt take long to compute the savings of wire against leveling ground,lost forage,and my animals breaking legs in ruts...i've told my neighbors if they see any on my land to shoot em and let the buzzards clean em up if they didnt want to butcher hogs....we got more feral hogs per acre in colorado county than deer...i wont leave the house without a rifle anymore...got treed by a couple 500 pounders 10 years ago...learned my lesson.

I have a friend who a number of years ago ran a hers of hogs down a cliff into the sea. Apparently they fell to their death. Matthew 8:32

Funny, My aunt and uncle moved from NY to Florida, thaught it would be so great. Well they were telling me that either wild hogs or wild boar tore up there landscaping. Ripped everything out and made a real mess. Being new down there they dident realize what they were in for. lol. Now they wanna come back up north.

Michigan DNR has told hunters if you see one while hunting anything else, shoot it. Works for me.

Michigan, anyone with any valid hunting license - like he says, fair game. Understand they taste pretty good. we've got two hog farms within 3 miles of us. Looking for a refugee!

Thanks to some "pay to hunt" operations that "leaked" PA is now dealing with its own wild hogs. They are currently in concentrated areas, but are very good at avoiding traps and aerial hunters. The state is asking anyone that sees them to shoot them, but DO NOT hunt them! When hunted, they leave the area and the population expands to other locations.

The small ones, 200 lbs or less, are good eating. Anything larger has a strong, unpleasant taste to the meat.

Ken, In my area, of Williamson & Burnet Co. we do not have any major problems yet, BUT probably not for long Dam Hogs breed like Rabbits! My Hunters have instructions to WASTE any and all that they see Do not let any get away, I advocate poison when all else fails. Hogs are epidemic in some areas of Texas, not so much in others. Here it is still marginal. These are just Ferrel domestic Hogs, set free to run wild.
Starting to see them dead on the side of the road, here and there, where the have been hit by cars and trucks mostly 100 lbs and less, It is the 250 lbs Hogs where things go South in a hurry, But you already knew that. Take care!
Later,
John A.

like your answer the best.

They can get out of hand sometimes here. Last year, feed got short and they were going into populated areas of big cities. Police in Berlin were going into apartment complexes and killing hogs in broad daylight.
In most areas though, the hunters are responsible for controling wildlife populations and the animals themselves. Ie. If a farmers crops get damaged bydeer , hogs, etc, the hunter or hunters responsible for the area pays the damage (some if's, and's & but's. but that's the gist of it).

Dave