Helped set up a pig brig
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What is Tannerite?Tannerite works a lot better for eradicating wild hogs.
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1. Wild (feral) hogs are good to eat as long as they've been eating good things. Acorn mast is absolutely the best and the lard they put on is creamy white. Don't bother trying to feed them out on corn. They won't gain a pound and won't fatten. If you keep them up and try to fatten them, that is when they develop an off taste. A nursing sow has depleted her fat reserves and is not worth the effort to skin and butcher. Even a boar will taste good if he's fat and you don't screw things up while dressing.
2. I always wash the hogs I kill off with high pressure water and a scrub brush before I make the first cut. I do not field dress. When gutting it is imperative to NOT punch a gut and certainly not the bladder. I skin them hanging from the back legs.
3. Traps... We make our traps out of mostly steel, and steel, welded together. I be interested to know how the net trap works. I have no doubt it will trap the hogs, but keeping them trapped especially while the executions are taking place is quite another issue... I have seen a big boar, with a 3' start break all the welds on a cattle panel and back up and do it again. We have a saying down here that "If a hog can get its nose through a hole, its a$$ will follow". My prediction for the trap shown is that there will be a lot of bent t-posts and some netting strewn through the woods. I have been wrong before but I don't underestimate wild hogs.
4. Conventional hunting practices cannot keep up with the feral hog reproduction rate. When pressured they will go nocturnal. When pressured they will leave, but they'll be back. There's a fellow on another forum that hunts them at night with IR scope, Glass I think is his last name. He kills lots of hogs. There are others like him, they kill lots of hogs. I have killed lots of hogs by conventional hunting, with dogs and with a shoot on sight at any range at any time philosophy. Down here they poison them, shoot them out of helicopters and generally practice Swine-ocide. There's still lots of hogs.
By all means kill as many as you can by whatever means are legal in your area. You won't run out of hogs.
AND, don't be afraid to skin and butcher the fat ones. Most meat processors won't take them, but some will. So be prepared to do it yourself.
Personally, as someone who both raised domesticated hogs and killed a boat load of feral hogs, I prefer the fat, acorn fed feral hogs any day.
Alan
2. I always wash the hogs I kill off with high pressure water and a scrub brush before I make the first cut. I do not field dress. When gutting it is imperative to NOT punch a gut and certainly not the bladder. I skin them hanging from the back legs.
3. Traps... We make our traps out of mostly steel, and steel, welded together. I be interested to know how the net trap works. I have no doubt it will trap the hogs, but keeping them trapped especially while the executions are taking place is quite another issue... I have seen a big boar, with a 3' start break all the welds on a cattle panel and back up and do it again. We have a saying down here that "If a hog can get its nose through a hole, its a$$ will follow". My prediction for the trap shown is that there will be a lot of bent t-posts and some netting strewn through the woods. I have been wrong before but I don't underestimate wild hogs.
4. Conventional hunting practices cannot keep up with the feral hog reproduction rate. When pressured they will go nocturnal. When pressured they will leave, but they'll be back. There's a fellow on another forum that hunts them at night with IR scope, Glass I think is his last name. He kills lots of hogs. There are others like him, they kill lots of hogs. I have killed lots of hogs by conventional hunting, with dogs and with a shoot on sight at any range at any time philosophy. Down here they poison them, shoot them out of helicopters and generally practice Swine-ocide. There's still lots of hogs.
By all means kill as many as you can by whatever means are legal in your area. You won't run out of hogs.
AND, don't be afraid to skin and butcher the fat ones. Most meat processors won't take them, but some will. So be prepared to do it yourself.
Personally, as someone who both raised domesticated hogs and killed a boat load of feral hogs, I prefer the fat, acorn fed feral hogs any day.
Alan
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