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Title: Mulefoot?? Post by: Yelladogwreckincrew on May 04, 2011, 08:45:41 am What exactly is a mule footed hog, and what makes them special?
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: leonidas on May 04, 2011, 08:51:51 am http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulefoot
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oG7my2WcFNQQEAhbtXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=mule%20foot%20hog&fr2=tab-web&fr=yfp-t-701 Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: BarrNinja on May 04, 2011, 09:03:10 am They are just swine with a solid single hoof. Not cloven. Their tracks look like a mini mule track to me. I caught one a few years ago. It had a perfect mule type foot. No seem line at all.
I have seen a few recently that looked like a split hoof fused together. You could see the seem line. Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: BarrNinja on May 04, 2011, 09:15:53 am http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulefoot http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0oG7my2WcFNQQEAhbtXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=mule%20foot%20hog&fr2=tab-web&fr=yfp-t-701 That's a pretty good write up on wikipedia. There was another fella in Dayton Texas that free ranged a herd of them until the late 80's when he passed away according to the land owner of the place we were hunting. He told me the story after we hunted his place one day. I came back telling him he either had wild burrows or unicorns running around. I had never heard of a mule footed hog until then. Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: fishing_bobo on May 04, 2011, 05:00:09 pm I caught some mule footed hog that were piglets in a trap a couple years ago. Bought home and feed out for a year. The BEST pig to eat. The meat is great.
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: JH Catahoulas on May 04, 2011, 06:29:41 pm Boar ninja my father in law hunts a place in between Dayton and Mont belvue and caught 7 in one morning. Some was completely mule footed and others partially.
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: TShelly on May 04, 2011, 09:05:38 pm We've caught some near Hardin and a few around Fairfield. They were all fully cloven like ninja talked about. It's a recessive trait, so it's a rarity.. Even more rare we caught a small guilt in Hardin years ago that was mule-footed AND had waddles!!
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: BarrNinja on May 04, 2011, 09:18:40 pm Boar ninja my father in law hunts a place in between Dayton and Mont belvue and caught 7 in one morning. Some was completely mule footed and others partially. Now that's something! I'd bet money they were the same line of hogs. Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: T-Bob Parker on May 04, 2011, 09:34:17 pm I'm still kicking myself over a pig I shot around 6 years ago. It had three regular legs and one that had 2fully formed legs coming out of his back right hip. I thought it was gross so I left him without photographing him. I also trapped one with waddles and long floppy ears a few years ago.
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: BarrNinja on May 04, 2011, 09:52:04 pm I'm still kicking myself over a pig I shot around 6 years ago. It had three regular legs and one that had 2fully formed legs coming out of his back right hip. I thought it was gross so I left him without photographing him. I also trapped one with waddles and long floppy ears a few years ago. I've caught the with waddles and ears like that in the Sam Houston National Forest back in the late 80's and early 90's. That's the only place I have seen em like that. Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: JH Catahoulas on May 04, 2011, 10:09:35 pm I've caught one full for sure mule footed hog, but 2 yrs ago I caught a boar with a long tail like a horse that drug the ground .
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: T-Bob Parker on May 04, 2011, 10:33:42 pm I'm still kicking myself over a pig I shot around 6 years ago. It had three regular legs and one that had 2fully formed legs coming out of his back right hip. I thought it was gross so I left him without photographing him. I also trapped one with waddles and long floppy ears a few years ago. I've caught the with waddles and ears like that in the Sam Houston National Forest back in the late 80's and early 90's. That's the only place I have seen em like that. Yeah I bet those national forest hogs had cwards mark on them ;) you remember what his mark is? Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: swampboys09 on May 04, 2011, 10:47:52 pm We catch them all the time at this one spot we hunt at in lindale.
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: SCHitemHard on May 04, 2011, 11:04:13 pm aint these hogs supposed to have more "endurance" then cloved hogs, i heard a ol timer tell me that once i just dont know
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: slick on May 05, 2011, 07:51:54 am whats a waddle?
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: BarrNinja on May 05, 2011, 08:09:35 am I'm still kicking myself over a pig I shot around 6 years ago. It had three regular legs and one that had 2fully formed legs coming out of his back right hip. I thought it was gross so I left him without photographing him. I also trapped one with waddles and long floppy ears a few years ago. I've caught the with waddles and ears like that in the Sam Houston National Forest back in the late 80's and early 90's. That's the only place I have seen em like that. Lol come to think of it, they all did. Right underneath their tails! ;D Yeah I bet those national forest hogs had cwards mark on them ;) you remember what his mark is? Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: djhogdogger on May 05, 2011, 08:24:01 am Boar ninja my father in law hunts a place in between Dayton and Mont belvue and caught 7 in one morning. Some was completely mule footed and others partially. We used to trap on a farm between Dayton and Mont Belvue and we caught several there as well. We always figured that they were inbred or something. We still have access to the area, it just isn't big enough to run dogs on. Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: Circle C on May 05, 2011, 08:31:30 am There are some mule footed hogs in Crosby too. I suspect all from the same gene puddle as the ones in Dayton and Mont Belvieu.
Title: Re: Mulefoot?? Post by: BarrNinja on May 05, 2011, 08:46:17 am whats a waddle? Balls of skin hanging under their jaw similar to a goat. |