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« on: March 30, 2013, 10:04:28 pm » |
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Just copied and pasted this from an article from the Houston Chronicle!! "Land and vegetation are not the only victims of feral hogs. In some areas, livestock and wild animals suffer. The omnivorous swine will greedily kill and eat young sheep, goats and deer fawns." Anyone have thoughts on this?  ? I am a bit sceptical I must admit! Who knows they might!!! Hogs are crazy!! Sent from my DROID BIONIC using Tapatalk 2 |
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Corey
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« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2013, 10:14:41 pm » |
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They would have to be absolutely starved out or adapted to it. But hogs in a blood frenzy are like piranhas. But to actually take down and kill, not likely. Its genetic to forage or scavenge to eat. With that said they have a hard time turning away from fresh blood.......of the own kind even.
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Rooster79
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« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2013, 10:23:58 pm » |
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I promise you, they will eat just about anything they can get in their mouth. I have seen them eat possums, chickens and dead cows. Pulled up on a dead, bloated, stinkin cow one night and could see its belly movin. Shined a spotlight on it and all of a sudden a small boar came running out of its rib cage licking its lips. Wouldn't doubt them eatin any of that, but probably only a rare occasion.
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charles
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« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2013, 10:25:56 pm » |
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They would have to be absolutely starved out or adapted to it. But hogs in a blood frenzy are like piranhas. But to actually take down and kill, not likely. Its genetic to forage or scavenge to eat. With that said they have a hard time turning away from fresh blood.......of the own kind even.
Agreed. Chances of them goin on the attack and killing live animals, slim, but not impossible. Possibly a freshly droped new born, say with in minutes, maybe. Foraging on already dead animals, yes. |
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Westexhoghunter
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2013, 10:53:26 pm » |
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You shouldn't be skeptical at all. That is the only reason I got into hog hunting with dogs to begin with. 4 years ago we lost seven calves in our canyon pastures in marble falls. I'm not saying they were all lost to hogs but I know for a fact two of them were because I rode up on it happening after it was far to late to do anything. Now I have been hearing stories on rattlesnakes not rattling because of hogs eating them?!
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« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2013, 10:56:22 pm » |
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About 15 years or so ago i was building the walmart on 45 in webster and there was a farmer right behind the walmart land that had several of his cows killed by a big boar. The farmer told us that the hog would graze right up next to a cow and get right up under it hook it and run backwards..... As soon as the cow went down he would eat the internals. The farmer said he had shot at the hog a whole bunch a times. Anyhow our superintendent at the time was a big deer hunter and brought a 30 06 he put one in the boar one morning and it ran off. Two days later he brought a 338 and put the boar out of the cow eating business. He had the head mounted and said when he skinned it out the hog had a ton of slugs stuck in his shield of various calibers. That hog was probably in the 300lb range.
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dwhd93
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« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2013, 11:00:54 pm » |
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If rattlers ain't rattlin cause of hogs then none of em would rattle. Javelinas been around Texas a lot longer than hogs and I've watched em in the deer stand play with em tossin em in the air. That don't make much since to me
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Westexhoghunter
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« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2013, 11:25:41 pm » |
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If rattlers ain't rattlin cause of hogs then none of em would rattle. Javelinas been around Texas a lot longer than hogs and I've watched em in the deer stand play with em tossin em in the air. That don't make much since to me
Ill take your word for it. I'm not gonna test the theory. Lol |
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dwhd93
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« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2013, 11:33:39 pm » |
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If rattlers ain't rattlin cause of hogs then none of em would rattle. Javelinas been around Texas a lot longer than hogs and I've watched em in the deer stand play with em tossin em in the air. That don't make much since to me
Ill take your word for it. I'm not gonna test the theory. Lol lol I don't blame you accordin to them big wig scientists and biologists none of us that grew up in the woods knows anything though |
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« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2013, 11:51:34 pm » |
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I raised an old pinto sow that we trapped as a baby that I raised and that sow was a professional chicken killer watched her leap in the air and catch a couple on different occasions as they tried to get clear of her lol a cow down having a calf when a sounder comes on her the calf wont make it . turkey hens setting a nest is a gonner as well as the eggs . hogs are opportunistic omnivors and will eat anything handy .
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Purebreedcolt
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« Reply #10 on: March 31, 2013, 12:38:49 am » |
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Lol if you dont believe it yall have not seen it yes hpg can and will kill animals especially young because they are not as fast. Hogs love blood dont believe it come to my pig pen with any type of meat or what ever they will eat it fast and are not starved.
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Corey
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« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2013, 01:18:13 am » |
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Lol if you dont believe it yall have not seen it yes hpg can and will kill animals especially young because they are not as fast. Hogs love blood dont believe it come to my pig pen with any type of meat or what ever they will eat it fast and are not starved.
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I don' doubt it. If you throw them meat or blood....throw them a cow or a goat. Will they gobble them up? They don't know to. Its not handy, readily available food. Hog will eat ANYTHING given the coditions and or situation. |
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Reuben
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« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2013, 05:18:45 am » |
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I raised an old pinto sow that we trapped as a baby that I raised and that sow was a professional chicken killer watched her leap in the air and catch a couple on different occasions as they tried to get clear of her lol a cow down having a calf when a sounder comes on her the calf wont make it . turkey hens setting a nest is a gonner as well as the eggs . hogs are opportunistic omnivors and will eat anything handy .
as a kid we raised all kinds of animals and I have seen our hogs kill and cotton mouth snakes that came to their mud wallows in the dry season, just catch the snake and shake them a little while and eat them whole...We had one hog that learned to let the chickens fly in to his pen to help him eat his corn...the hog ignored the chichen until the chicken got between him and his shed and then he turned on her and of course the chicken would run/fly straight into a trapped corner and he would have chicken for dessert... |
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« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2013, 06:48:14 am » |
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When I have a shoat or small hog I feed meat and the hog. Will scarf it down
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« Reply #14 on: March 31, 2013, 04:05:39 pm » |
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We would feed pen hogs deer trimmins. they'd eat it all bones and all. Always made em mean an crazy by my experience.
But i cant see one running a cow (etc) and killing it
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« Reply #15 on: March 31, 2013, 07:41:30 pm » |
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Had a friend in East Texas be hired to catch a hog that had been ramming the rancher's pregnant cows causing them to abort then the hog would eat the remains. Said that hog was the biggest one he had ever caught with his american bulldogs and he says he has seen his own hogs grab rattlesnakes and cottonmouths and eat them up real fast like they were spaghetti.
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« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2013, 10:18:40 pm » |
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I have seen it first hand . Not my cows but a neibor has reg angus cattle . I was looking to see if hogs were coming in to a feeder . seen a cow break water right after about 20 hogs came out of the creek and circled all around her . I went out there to run them off . They ran me off . I called the owner he came down and shot three. The cow had already calved before he got there . We went out there the calf was alive but the navel cord was pulled out plus the guts. They had been eaten .
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« Reply #17 on: April 01, 2013, 05:15:40 am » |
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Hear in aus we have alot of trouble with pigs killing lambs in lambing season a newborn is pretty helpless,
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« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2013, 05:40:36 am » |
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I seen abunch of hog tracks blood n white n tan deer hair never found any remains other that a lil hair. Id say they demolished the deer. But as said before I highly doubt they attacked it or chased it fown
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« Reply #19 on: April 01, 2013, 10:11:23 pm » |
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I raised an old pinto sow that we trapped as a baby that I raised and that sow was a professional chicken killer watched her leap in the air and catch a couple on different occasions as they tried to get clear of her lol a cow down having a calf when a sounder comes on her the calf wont make it . turkey hens setting a nest is a gonner as well as the eggs . hogs are opportunistic omnivors and will eat anything handy .
did the same thing raised one from a baby,my boar goat babys started missing jumped the neibor about his dogs really thought it was the dogs the next night found a nanny having twins. went back the sow was eatting the baby goats she ate probly 8 kids before we found her doing the crime she was not starved was a fat fat hog.she made some fine BBQ. had to appolagize to the neibor too |
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