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Wild Hogs!

OMG! So my dad has trail cameras all around our property. He loves looking at pictures of the deer, tracking their progress, etc. I think he enjoys it more than he does actually hunting. He's never hunted on our property before, except to kill a bobcat or something. We've gotten some cool pictures before, and it's cool seeing the differences in the bucks. Just in their body types and everything. Like the 10 pt (huge for our area!) is so thick compared to the 6 or 4 or 1. (yes, there is a 1 point haha). Anyway, my mom just emailed me these pictures! http://i40.tinypic.com/25yuk8x.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://i39.tinypic.com/riw909.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://i39.tinypic.com/mw5lxk.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://i44.tinypic.com/vrexbb.jpg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (links because they are huge) anyway, we've never seen hogs at our place before! I mean, all sorts of other animals, but never hogs. I've actually heard more and more stories about hogs in town, wonder what's going on.

Rusti Sun, 04/18/2010 - 17:35

That's so funny...we have tons of wild hogs and NEVER catch any on our cameras. They're sneaky devils. I hear them almost every night in the summer though, they tear up a few patches and waller around where our front pasture meets the mountain/woods. Here's what we DID catch on camera (and seen in real life a couple times..EEK!):
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And I love checking the memory cards and seeing funny pictures like these:
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critterkeeper Mon, 04/19/2010 - 17:39

Kewl pixs Krickette and Rusti...I don't have any trail cams, but maybe I will invest in one or two soon.

Krickette, hate to be the bearer of bad news, but those are not wild hogs, those are ferel hogs (their color pattern indicates domestic origins). Man, I watch too much Discovery Channel, and Animal Planet (can't forget Monster Quest and/or Destination Truth's search for Hogzilla).

Krickette Mon, 04/19/2010 - 18:01

Wow, I'm glad I don't have bears to worry about!!!

So you think they are just like, descendants of someone's pigs? Hope they don't belong to anyone, because dad might go trapping them. We don't need hogs tearing things up. All this haynesville shale stuff is around us, and they have pad sites everywhere, new pipelines going in, etc, so we're thinking that's what's pushing them onto our land.

Daylene Alford Tue, 04/20/2010 - 08:04

In most states wild hogs are open season and any hog that is loose for more than a short time (I think its like 5 days in Oklahoma) is considered feral. They are pests to the extreme and they breed like crazy!

critterkeeper Tue, 04/20/2010 - 09:14

Yes, I suspect they are decendants of someones "escapee".

The problem is that once they go ferel, they can be even more dangerous than a truly wild boar because they do not have the natural fear of man that the boar has. Think of a ferel pack of dogs vs a wolf or coyote.

And yes they can be very distructive and most states consider them nuscence animals like a coyote with open season (p.s. they taste just great and are leaner than farm raised pork).

Krickette Tue, 04/20/2010 - 12:29

Wow! I'll have to tell dad, we might have to have pork one night haha!
Also, I just found out that the camera that these pics came off of was in the middle of a cow pasture, like, open area, no trees.... That's kinda scary.