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Hogs - No longer Nocturnal !?!
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Kmccord
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They had received a lot of feedback and it was put off, however, we will see what happens in the near future about it.
J E Custom
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Just an observation.
When Hogs change there eating times it is normally due to hunting or other types of pressure. lack of food will also make them extend their feeding time in to early morning and early evening. If they find no pressure, they will adapt to their new schedule.
I am sure there are other reasons but this is what I have observed over the years. After long absences from out hunting lease, we often see them in the middle of the day for a few days and then with the pressure, they return to feeding at night.
We try not to educate them and kill everyone we see (If we can ) but some witness the carnage and decide that night is safest. Inter the night vision hunting.
I don't know how smart they are on a scale of 1 to 10, but they do learn fast and seem to adapt to our schedule better than we adapt to theirs. So as they say "Adapt and overcome"
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Wedgy
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Not exactly....the secondary poisoning isn't usually enough to kill the animal but they are immunocompromised and susceptible to other diseases, for example over 90% of the bobcats in the Southern California area have rodent poison in their system and get mange. Not sure what happens to hawks, owls, and such.
Smarter than dogs or horses.Just an observation.
When Hogs change there eating times it is normally due to hunting or other types of pressure. lack of food will also make them extend their feeding time in to early morning and early evening. If they find no pressure, they will adapt to their new schedule.
I am sure there are other reasons but this is what I have observed over the years. After long absences from out hunting lease, we often see them in the middle of the day for a few days and then with the pressure, they return to feeding at night.
We try not to educate them and kill everyone we see (If we can ) but some witness the carnage and decide that night is safest. Inter the night vision hunting.
I don't know how smart they are on a scale of 1 to 10, but they do learn fast and seem to adapt to our schedule better than we adapt to theirs. So as they say "Adapt and overcome"
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Hatrick
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According to the government, they die from lead poisoning.
Double Naught Spy
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They get demodectic mange from a suppressed immune system allow the Demodex sp. mite free reign. They carry the mite all the time, just like dogs, but this sort of mange only occurs when the immune system is suppressed/compromised. This is not a contagious mange.
Wedgy
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I hunt the fringe of the city and see a fair amount of mangey coyotes, away from the city I rarely ever see them with mange. Related or not I have no idea, I'm not drawing blood or doing an autopsy, but I shoot the mange ones first and bury them.
To all who live where hogs are abundant, please send some to AZ!! I read articles saying things like "if you dont have them you will" "coming soon to your state. They have them in CA but I would never hunt in CA because I am used to hunting AZ where you can have your rifle and ammo in same vehicle while hunting and your can carry a sidearm while bowhunting. In CA them there are felonies. AZ bowhunters pride themselves on taking deer with the bow carrying a sidearm is for protection against many dangerous and even armed bad living things. Sorry, got off topic, we could use some real pigs to hunt as javelina taste like they smell, so we could use some porkers here. Thanks
Brett Bracken
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scazasm,
I understand your desire for good table fare and some hog hunting fun, but quite truthfully….you don't want them in your state if you value your native wildlife and the habitat they live in. Hogs are extremely prolific creatures, intelligent and amazingly adaptable. With all that said…they are unbelievably destructive causing millions of dollars in property and crop damage in Texas, alone. Most of all they are a threat to other wildlife e.g. turkey and quail, mainly. Quite honestly…..they are a scurge. I have personally witnessed a decline in turkey and quail numbers on my ranch. In fact, I have no more quail and I attribute that to the increase in hog numbers. There just is no way to kill enough of them.
I understand your desire for good table fare and some hog hunting fun, but quite truthfully….you don't want them in your state if you value your native wildlife and the habitat they live in. Hogs are extremely prolific creatures, intelligent and amazingly adaptable. With all that said…they are unbelievably destructive causing millions of dollars in property and crop damage in Texas, alone. Most of all they are a threat to other wildlife e.g. turkey and quail, mainly. Quite honestly…..they are a scurge. I have personally witnessed a decline in turkey and quail numbers on my ranch. In fact, I have no more quail and I attribute that to the increase in hog numbers. There just is no way to kill enough of them.
John Klingenberg
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Javelina are pretty good in my opinion, you just have to be meticulous when skinning. If you get a drop of that musk on anything it will spoil the whole thing. Hogs seem to be hit or miss as far as taste to me. They usually end up as sausage at my house.
Hunting pressure
In West Central Texas, the hogs are diunral and all depends on when you set the feeder to go off. I shoot em in the morning and the evenings and set the feeder to go off around 11PM and low and behold they there almost every time for thermal fun.
They kill a lot of whitetails too; they are one of the few predators that can detect the fawns by smell. Combine that sense of smell with intelligence, numbers and herd foraging and they will be much better than bears or canids at finding fawns.
