Good Run

[Cajun]

Had a guy that’s been wanting us to come run the hogs off his food Plott. He had a guy come in there Thursday and he ran hogs for a while but didn’t catch any. Got together with Rez boys Scotty and Rhett and my buddy Mike the knife. There had been a lot of hogs there and the dogs scattered out. Finally Amber, Hank and Rose trailed one out. Hank showed bayed and Amber was soon there and they were spitting them out at .92 mile. We drove around an turned 2 green catch dogs with n and the hog broke. My bulldog Rex was running with the hounds. We got out of there trying to stay with the race. We all got other dogs in I went back to get Rex. Rhett, Scotty and Mike stayed with the dogs. It took a couple hours for me to round up Rex and make my way back to them. I was 5 minutes too late as they caught the hog. My Garmin said Hank put on 11.9 miles but he was out of range for a hour and a half. A real nice hot hunt.


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[l.h.cracker]

Sounds like a hell of a run.

[t-dog]

Makes you feel good about what you're feeding when they do what someone else's couldn't. Congrats on a good job

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[Cajun]

Don’t know why the pics didn’t come thru.


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[t-dog]

I'm curious...when a boar breeds another boar, do you just get more boars?

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[NLAhunter]

Dang good run good hog

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[Muddy-N-Bloody]

Yea tht kinda boar needed to be taken out
Lol



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[Cajun]

Tdog, We saw that also. Must not have been enough receptive sows around. Speaking of that we have been getting some long coldtrails on boar tracks we been putting on. My theory is with the acorns hitting the ground, there are more sows that come in heat at this time of the year then any other time. While you can see pigs any time of the year, we see the majority of pigs Jan. thru March. We have cold trailed hogs a couple of miles and not jumped them. They are traveling. The dogs cold trailed this boar .92 and bayed him in his bed. When he broke bay he was going to change zip codes or it seemed like it. He was a good 5 miles from where we started at. Rhett and Scotties curs can sure stay in a race too.

[HIGHWATER KENNELS]

Congrats Mr. Mike,,,, that boar had some wind to him,,,, Its been nice and cool aint it,,,,, After loosing a good dog last summer,,, I aint been in month,,,, Dogs are pissed at me badd  LOL>>.

[RBz_OFFROAD]

It sure was a good hunt Cajun.  Its very hot and dry. You can’t be anything but pleased with the dogs finishing a hog like that.

[t-dog]

Cajun I have my thoughts on it, but why do you think there are more sows in heat during the acorn season?

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[Cajun]

T dog, Here are some of my thoughts on it and it might not be worth a hill of beans. lol  I used to raise Russian hogs and could only get one litter a year out of them and these hogs were fed the best year round. It always seemed like they were coming into heat coinciding with the acorns dropping around Sept- Oct. With a almost 4 year gestation period that puts them having babies Jan thru March. A good majority of the hogs we hunt in the marsh have a lot of Russian blood in them and we see most of the pigs out there in Jan. thru March. There are always exceptions but this is what I have found in our area. 
   Feral hogs will have pigs anytime of the year but it also depends on the food supply. Hogs in Agriculture country always have plenty to eat and sows have to be in good condition or they will not come into heat so that could explain why they come in heat at different times of the year.
   You always hear that hogs will have three litters a year. Actually that is a little over a year. I have talked to commercial hog farmers And they say some will but not all and those are hogs that are fed the best.

[t-dog]

I agree with you cajun. I think animals heat cycles have several factors that determine when or if they cycle, even the domestic ones. Food is absolutely a huge one and probably number one. I think this heat has a factor in it too. You throw in hunting pressure, be it dogs, traps, property owners shooting every time one sticks their head out of the brush and you have a good deal of stress. No animal has as good of litters or as large of litters when they are stressed. I remember when we went through the last severe drought. Normally if we bayed a group and there was a sow with pigs, there would be several with pigs or fixing to have them. During the drought though, if you saw a sow with pigs it was a small litter and she would likely be the dominate sow and the only one bred or going to pig. I don't like raising summer time puppies. To me they are just not as healthy and the mothers do a much poorer job of taking care of them. The gyps are prone to problems that are a lot less likely during the cooler months too like mastitis and infections. Other animals are no different.

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[Cajun]

Didnt mean to leave Rhett out or the Curs.


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[t-dog]

That's sure enough a good looking set of dogs cajun

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[Judge peel]

Nice hogs that takes quality dogs to get in on that


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[Goose87]

Didnt mean to leave Rhett out or the Curs.


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Now y’all don’t shoot the messenger but I heard through the kudzu vine that you done low key converted Scotty to the brindle side, I know why he made sure your plotts was in the picture, so nobody would suspect his lol...

[Cajun]

LOL Goose, Scotty been a Plott man for years. He is just coming out of the closet now. haha

[RBz_OFFROAD]

Goose I do like me plotts. But Cajun and I talked about it the other day I like getting home early and taking mid day naps lol. So the curs hopefully stay working for me lol.   

[Cajun]

Scotty we would have wrapped this hunt up at 7:30 am if we didnt turn two green bulldogs into the bay.