Rockbadchild
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Shooting sound a lot more fun for sure but trapping seem a lot more effective perhaps doing both would be the best of both world... these are surly big specimen and hell of a abomination these are.
Repairing Hog Damage in a Pasture
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masseyrider
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This looks excessive.
I don't have a hog issue but do need to level the ground after pulling an orchard etc.
I use a single 18 foot heavy I beam. Drilled a hole about 2 feet from each end and attached chains from each side.
I attach a 3pth draw bar on the tractor with draw bar hooks on either side.
Attach the chains to the hooks so it pulls evenly.
When you get it balanced you can adjust how deep it digs in by raising and lowering the 3pth. You might need to make a few length adjustments to the chains until you get it just right.
Easy to use and takes minimal space by the barn to store.
When you want to go to a different field or get through a narrow area just unhitch one chain and it pulls straight behind the tractor.
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Those wouldn't be a problem but there are 5 gates and a creek that goes across a corner. 6132 ft x $3.5ft puts me around $21,462 I could use towards a new tractor though.
Will test the $33 welding rod investment some this winter.
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RayIN
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When you have a choice, shoot the sows. It's not unusual for them to have several litters of 6 or more a year.
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Do you have wild hogs down in southern IN? None around here in northern IN although I remember when I was a kid we had a couple of domestic sows escape and we never did find them after they got in the cornfield. There were signs of them a mile away but I suspect they didn't make it through the winter after the corn was picked. I wonder if winters are mild enough for them to survive the winter where you're at.
masseyrider
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They're moving into western Kanuckistan and we have some in western Ontario. -30C is common in the winter.
Maybe the domesticated portable bacon units might not survive but the wild hams do well.
jigs_n_fixtures
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I would guess they can thrive in Indianna. However, the Indianna DNR has an aggressive program to eliminate them. the hogs were starting to show up in 2016, and DNR took pretty aggressive action to eliminate them, and there have no reported sighting in over a year.
The wild hogs are problems in Canada. per the AI: Invasive wild pigs in Canada are a growing ecological and economic threat, primarily spreading across Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and are targeted by coordinated national and provincial control strategies.
This is a relatively current map of their distribution in Canada:
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Torvy
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Seems like hog control and feed the hungry peeps should get together.
Heck, the military could use hogs as live-fire training and then process the meat to feed the troops.
Like Eddie, we have fencing, which encourages them to try another farm. We also don't put out forage for deer. Doesn't make much sense down here as we rarely have deep snow and the natural forage is abundant. The neighbors all seem to feed the 'deer' which draws the hogs to them instead of us. One of those neighbors is a retired SO with thermals and such. He takes down quite a few.
Heck, the military could use hogs as live-fire training and then process the meat to feed the troops.
Like Eddie, we have fencing, which encourages them to try another farm. We also don't put out forage for deer. Doesn't make much sense down here as we rarely have deep snow and the natural forage is abundant. The neighbors all seem to feed the 'deer' which draws the hogs to them instead of us. One of those neighbors is a retired SO with thermals and such. He takes down quite a few.
