It seems these guys are always the topic when it comes to damages in farm lands across Texas and other parts of the nation. We are definitely home to a lot of farm land here in the Lone Star State.
How many of you hunters out there pass when you see a hog? How many of you shoot? It may also depend on the time year whether or not it is Deer season. For those of you that dont know hogs can be hunted year long as opposed to other species that have a designated time period to hunt.
I personally started donating my hog meat after a hunt. We get it processed and use some of it to make deer sausage. It adds a good taste and your deer sausage wont be that dry.
But back to the topic, wild hogs cause damage to agriculture in the sums of on or about 1.5 billion dollars annually nation wide in areas where the department of agriculture has conducted studies. An estimated 52 million dollars is what is recorded in Texas alone.
Wild hog roaming the Texas lands.
Several methods have been used in the past few years one of which caused major controversy with Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller. That method was eliminated because it was beleived to cause danger to other animals. In the effort to assist our farmland owners other methods are on the horizon.
Hog traps and hunting methods don’t seem to be taking care of the problem says one farmer owner of 20 acres of land. One night is all it takes to cause damage.
Corral trapping has been the most effective way to trap big groups of feral hogs. Hogs are extremely smart. But we have encountered groups that show up minutes after we have taken some down by shots. We wrote an article on whether or not a shot from a rifle scares away the animals and several submissions from our readers proved that many have shot their kill after taking a shot. So we’ll leave that opinion up to you.
We would like to know your opinion and if you are reading this article and have a ferall hog problem yourself, we may be of help in solving your problem. Send us a message here of email us at rppoutdoors@gmail.com
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