Waddle hogs

[Judge peel]

My boys have caught 8 in the last few weeks over in the ennis bardwell area. Any one else around there catching any

[charles]

Would yaw be willing to "donate" 1?

[Judge peel]

Charles my boys kept a breeding pair they have a litter your more than welcome to one if they catch another small one you can come get it but that might be a drive for ya

[halfbreed]

     what !!  somebody cut the fence at brandons   lol

[charles]

Charles my boys kept a breeding pair they have a litter your more than welcome to one if they catch another small one you can come get it but that might be a drive for ya

Ennis right? If so, aint but a couple hrs driving. Id be looking for a breeding pair too to see what yields the better meat and fat content. Ill pm you when i get work today. It'll be 6:30-7:00 pm ur time by the time i get off and get back to the hotel tonight.

[Judge peel]

Well I am in waxahachie but they been caught in ennis. Lol halfbreed Brandon sold that ranch last yr

[justincorbell]

if you are speaking of "waddle" hogs as hogs that have what we call "waddles" on their cheeks (almost like little short turkey beards) then yes we have some roaming around southeast texas, we have caught a 1/2 dozen in the last year in the sour lake/ nome area.

[Judge peel]

[justincorbell]

Yep, just wanted to make sure the lingo was the same, ya dont hear about waddle hogs much anymore.

[halfbreed]

  they still breed them pure . they have the red wattle hog assc.  I believe they have a facebook page I don't know about a web site  .

[halfbreed]

Red Wattles are a uniquely American hog. In the early 1970's Mr. H.C. Wenglar set out to breed hogs like he remembered from his youth in Texas. While on a hunting trip, he found a couple of  large red wattled sows similar to the hogs he remembered from his boyhood on a farm. He bred these sows to a Duroc boar. Only offspring that carried the wattle gene were retained for breeding. Through careful selection Wenglar stabilized the breed over several generations. His hogs became known as Wenglar Red Waddles and Mr. Wenglar maintained the breed registry himself. Later, Mr. Robert Prentice located another herd of red wattled hogs in east Texas. Prentice's breeding became known as the Timberline Red Wattles and later formed part of the Endow Farm Red Wattle Hog line.

But where did the wattled hogs come from originally? This is a mystery. One theory holds that they are of European origin, arriving with the French in Louisiana and migrating west with settlers to Texas. The French know good pork when they taste it so of course they brought their prized hogs with them.

Another story holds that in the late 1800s a wealthy Texan traveled the globe hunting big game to add to his collection. While in Australia, he heard feverish tales of a giant beast that lived only on the island of Esperontu Santo. Intrigued, he traveled there to find a giant hog—by his account as large as a rhinoceros—that sported wattles instead of horns on its large and frightening head. He captured specimens and brought them to Texas where they escaped into the wild and formed feral herds. Following this lead we found no evidence of such an animal ever existing on the island.

What we do know is during the 1980s, a boom time in the hog market, RW hogs brought a premium. Crosses with the Red Wattle inherited a leaner carcass and showed good hybrid vigor. There were three registries for Red Wattle hogs and over 100 breeders. A crash in the hog market and  the lack of a single centralized registry and breed association led to the near extinction of this breed. In late 1999, Jerry Russell began to search for Red Wattle hogs and found only 42 breeding animals belonging to six breeders. None of the three registries had registered stock in years. At the breeders' request, ALBC maintained a pedigree registry for the breed and provided technical support to the Red Wattle Hog Association. The RWHA now maintains the registry.  The recovery of the Red Wattle Hog is now in the hands of devoted RW breeders.

The story of the Red Wattle illustrates the problems associated with conservation of regional and local populations. Breeds can be rapidly lost when no formal network exists to document, conserve and promote them. With every breed that is lost we lose part of the genetic diversity that sustains our food web. Diversity is the key to sustainability. Diverse populations show a resilience to disease and environmental pressures that homogenous populations cannot equal.

Here at Hood's Heritage Hogs we are working to preserve the breed and bring delicious Red Wattle Pork back to the table.

 

[halfbreed]

http://www.redwattle.com/

[BadBoar30]

Hunted south of Bardwell on my buddies place last week and didn't hardly even see a track. Massive piece of land, but found out the helicopters fly that whole area and especially his VERY often. Aggravating!!

[Judge peel]

I hear ya bad boar he has whipped out most of the hogs in my area it's not easy to bay up like it was in yrs past. I have access to a lot of the bottoms right behind the lake I ain't seen much out there in awhile the north side of the lake seems to be holding some good numbers. I got 10 or so every night at my feeder on a ranch I hunt north of 287

[BadBoar30]

Well that's good to hear!  I'm not a huge fan of the helicopter stuff so i definetly have a negative opinion on them. That land out there is a dream to hunt. You can hunt along chambers creek and some other creek/river (forgot the name) for a long ways. Thick... I mean it looks like a hog paradise.  It's a shame

[Judge peel]

Bad boar you in that area ?

[l.h.cracker]

About 3 weeks ago my Buddy caught a wattled boar hog on the property adjacent to mine here in central Florida.

[charles]

Them rotor heads gotta a job to do just like us all. Only problem iv got with them is, flying onto property they dont have permission to be on. Only thing to do then is get "N" number, call the sheriff dept n the local/area faa fsdo (flight standards district office) n turn them in n press charges. When i get heli cert i plan on doin the same thing, to build flt hrs. It pays good and there r enough hogs to pay the bills

[Judge peel]

Ya that's the problem they just fly where ever they want and shoot what they want. They have been called in on a bunch of times. Nothing has happens that I have heard

[charles]

Send me the "N" numbers and report info n ill report them as if i was you. A report on a pilot from a pilot usually hold more water than from a non pilot. The crap they r doing is what gives them a bad name, just like the dumbchit hunters who hurt it for other hunters