Hogs and Cows

[AW]

How many of yall have caught a hog that hangs out in the middle of a set of cows?

[Cutter Bay Kennels]

Add me to the list.

[muleman]

We have, on more than one occasion, struck hogs in the middle of cows. Once I thought the dogs were trashing. because the cows were all around a couple of round bales and the hogs were bedded in the hay. I was on my way to do a little whoop a$$ when I heard the pigs grunting.

[FORREST]

I HAVE, SPOTLIGHTED A COASTAL FIELD ABOUT 4 MONTHS AGO AND SAW ABOUT 160 LB BOAR STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF ABOUT 40 HEAD OF CATTLE MESSING AROUND A ROUND BALE.  CUT THE DOGS LOOSE ON HIM AND CAUGHT HIM.  

[AW]

This hog was a loner no ears and stayed with these cows all the time waited on cubes with them and then would fight them off at feeding time. I helped my buddy go catch her for a lady. The cows would charge the dogs and the dogs thought they were in trouble and would get back. Its hard on a dog to break them from cattle and try to send them into a set with a hog. This hog would stand in the middle right beside the cows. The curs tried to catch and the cows would knock them off ,got her seperated and caught with a bulldog.
She was 220 lb

[crackerc]

Used to do it all the time on the ranch. In winter, when we were feeding hay, you could ride out on a cold night and there would be sows and pigs laid up next to the rolls of hay the cows were eating. We never intentionally tuned a dog loose on sows and pigs so they got used to the truck and would just lay there in the hay with cows walking all wround them.

I caught a good boar one evening checking cows that were calving. A boar hog was eating afterbirth from one of the cows right after she calved. The cow was fighting the boar and he grabbed the afterbirth and was dragging it across the pasture. Luckily for me, I had two dogs with me.....he became a barr that day!

[hogtied]

I always see hogs with cows, never actually caught  one with em, them cow dogs wont mess with hogs and them hog dogs been harshly broke off cows, noticed when the cows are up feedin the swine are often up stirrin nearby too. Roped one while workin cows one day... Has caused alot of dogs to be unjustly punished, nearly electricuted, thinking they were messin with the cows and find out afterwards there was a hog in with them :'(

[JLH]

caught more than one with cows use to it was ok for or cowdogs to bay hogs but today you have to have cows dogs that dont bay hogs and hog dogs that want bay cows man it makes for a higher feed bill when my family ran cows in the open range of La my dad and uncles was tickled pink to bay some hogs when they was working cows it made some hard work a little fun

[hogtied]

I heard that, we use to do it back in the day before hoghunting became such a popular sport, my uncle still wont have a dog unless it goes both ways, but like you said, its all more serious these days and the land owners run you off their land if your dogs mess with the cows and they find out... with large ranches and land getting more scarce being on their good side and not runnin their cattle thru the fence will keep you huntin in more spots... Except for a very few fortunate folks the good old days are long gone

[Lockedon]

We see hogs with cows all the time.  Our dogs are cow broke so when we send them into a group of cows, they know there must be pork around.

[Cutter Bay Kennels]

I was asked by a guy at my church if I would go out to his farm and remove a wild boar.  I was just getting into the hog dogging, so I jumped all over the opportunity.  The first day, I drove by to basically find the place, to get a feel for the land.  It was like 20-25 acres.  Mostly low grass, with a deep hole (dried pond), and a lot of dog fennel.  I saw some horses, cows, and domestic hogs in the pasture.  It was completely surrounded by barbed wire.  Well, the next day, my wife, Noah, and I load the dogs up, and head over to see if we can spot this boar that is supposed to be messing with his big domestic sows.  As we get to where we can see the livestock, I see this 350-400 # black heifer going nuts.  As we get closer, I realize that she is trying to get something off her rear end.  Now, I'm really looking hard, to try to figure this out.  My wife said to me, "Is that a hog on that cows back?".  After she said it, I realized that yes the little black boar was trying his darndest to get the job done on this poor little thing.  She was wanting no part of it.  Well, as luck would have it, I used to be very nieve, and would vest one of my bay dogs.  Well, as I'm vesting him up, Noah turns two of his dogs into the pasture.  The chase is on.  The dang boar went throught the fence and disappeared into thin air.  There was nothing but blackberry bushes around.  My dogs never saw him.  They kept looking at me like, "What are you expecting us to do?".  We ended up going home empty handed.  The next trip, we decided to get some more proven hog dogs involved.  Noah brought 2, I brought 2, Will brought 3, and Blake brought the bulldog.  As we pulled up to the gate, the boar was standing in the middle of the field.  He broke into a run, as we hopped out of the trucks.  He then, stood directly in front of the bulls face.  The bull flung him about 15' into the air spinning head over tail.  When he hit the ground, he was off to the races.  What took place next, reminded me of the beginning of the movie "Gladiator".  Of course the movie had one dog named "Hell".  Here we had 7 bay dogs fanned out accross the pasture sight chasing this solid black boar.  Not being hunted around such places before, two of the dogs got clothslined by the barbed wire.  The others proceeded into the blackberries again.  After about 10 minutes of silence, my hank dog (hound) smelled or winded him.  As he began to tell us of his crouched location, the other dogs got in there.  We turned the bulldog in to the bay.  In all, 8 dogs battled that boar.  We tied him up, carried him out, and I kept him at my house for a long time.  He was mean from the word go.  I bet he only weighed 115 pounds the day we tied him.  We were so new into the sport, we did not realize that we overdogged him.  Looking back, it was pathetic.  Of course looking back, so was my personal pack of "hog dogs".  I've since gone to a better suited line, and have really learned a lot.  Oh well, we have to start somewhere.  I'm sure Noah will agree, Ellie or just about any of his other dogs, could have done it by themselves today.  I would like to think my dogs of today, would have caught him before he ever got out of the fence. 

On a side note, I fed that boar left over fried chicken from a local resturaunt for some time.  He put on some serious weight.  His teeth grew very fast on that diet.  He was a trophy when he left my place.

[cward]

        Ben there done that many times!!

[clint]

Dang i sure would like to cut that red boar hog 

[stoked]

ive bayed a few hogs in the middle of some cows.

one place we hunt, there is a feral donkey....this donkey ain't nothin' nice either..he will hurt you bad.

we ran in there to the bay and this donkey dang near killed us all...he bit my buddy and treed us all...i nearly had to let the catch dog go..

[hogtied]

them donkeys will jack a dog up bad... they will break em off cows for you!!!!

[stoked]

my buddy tried to warn us too, we didn't listen.

now we know! ha ha..