Hogs in javelina country

We had to deal with them on the King Ranch in south Texas. There were lots of regular hogs on that place also and the bird dogs pointed them as well as the quail. The big hogs would lay up in low spots that had grass growing up called sakawiesta. It was pretty high and lots of times you would be on a whole herd of hogs and unable to see them.

The javelinas are a desert animal and did not stay in the sakawiesta like the hogs. They seemed to stay on the higher ground which was not much higher because the land is really flat. They liked the thorny bushes called juesach (sp wee sach). They are different especially if they have pigs. I had a little setter of mine get to close to some and the whole dang herd came out ready to fight. They bite like a dog and can hurt your dogs.

Some of the guides had them run dogs as well as hunters back to the trucks and they had to shoot them from its protection. Sometimes they run and sometimes they don't. Their population cycles and some years there are more than others. They seem to always be in a herd and never single javelinas.