Why So Many Hogs?

[BuckSmasher]

I know that early settlers released pigs etc. When I was a kid 25 years ago hogs were something you heard about but never saw.

What happened in the last 25 years that was different than the preceding 400?

[pervis]

The hogs did drugs had crazy relations at feeders while eating. And 25 yrs later now theres millions of em.

[Jspradley]

We took God out of the schools and look what happened!!!


For serious though, pigs are good at escaping farms and folks were releasing them to hunt, things got a little out of hand after that...

[SmTx]

Probably because of folks like me that won't ruin a good deer hunt to shoot pigs every hunt.

Did set a trap tonight to have best of both world. hopefully shoot deer when hunting and trap pigs away from the stands.

[Low Fence]

Now there’s a feeder every 25 acres
Land is fragmented 20x what is was then
More hunters.... but higher percentage of “bad hunters” that do more educating than killing
Too many “safe zones”

We feed enough tonnage of corn to non target animals to increase body conditions to thrive vs maintain

All my neighbors feed by feeders... I don’t
They kill laughable numbers 1-5 a season(educated)
In 17’ I killed 110...18’ I killed 145....19’ since February 159
And it’s like I’ve never fired a shot. I could shoot pigs tonight if I wanted

[BonesandArrow]

I’m sure someone can do the math. 1 boar breeds 1 sow = so many piglets 25 years ago. How many pigs does that add up to now, the average amount survives from the litter.

[Low Fence]

I’m sure someone can do the math. 1 boar breeds 1 sow = so many piglets 25 years ago. How many pigs does that add up to now, the average amount survives from the litter.

1 to 2 litters a year
4-6 average litter
All 12 survive

[BuckSmasher]

Now there’s a feeder every 25 acres
Land is fragmented 20x what is was then
More hunters.... but higher percentage of “bad hunters” that do more educating than killing
Too many “safe zones”

We feed enough tonnage of corn to non target animals to increase body conditions to thrive vs maintain

All my neighbors feed by feeders... I don’t
They kill laughable numbers 1-5 a season(educated)
In 17’ I killed 110...18’ I killed 145....19’ since February 159
And it’s like I’ve never fired a shot. I could shoot pigs tonight if I wanted

No doubt. I spoke to a Texas biologist that works on one of the WMA's here in East Texas and he said they had trapped 450 pigs.... I shot two and saw 6 on a 4 day hunt without bait.

Hunters our parents generation didn't have pigs in most of Texas. Pockets here and there.

[xman59]

that meager number of around 250,000 sows had about 16 pigs per year for their lifespan call that only 5 years, so that made 4,000,000, probably half were sows, you only had about 2,250,000, sows dropping 16 pigs the next year of which only about half of that 36,000,000, or 18,000,000 were sows that dropped about 16 each or about 288,000,000 pigs , ect etc etc, for 25 years,, and us hunters killed maybe 1 million a year combined with road kills..... .... of course these numbers are not real they are kinda like figures you get in a democrat pole,,, but the end is the same they are all free loaders and you get the idea,, ( i hope) i am sure a farmer or rancher can give you a better idea on real numbers but i think about 16 per year is pretty close per sow

[BonesandArrow]

1 to 2 litters a year
4-6 average litter
All 12 survive

It seems like that is the scenario you are living / hunting in.

[BuckSmasher]

We took God out of the schools and look what happened!!!


For serious though, pigs are good at escaping farms and folks were releasing them to hunt, things got a little out of hand after that...

I really think some folks did that. Released wild boar genes that dramatically increased the surviveability of what was just skittish domestic pigs.

[BuckSmasher]

https://www.wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/history-wild-pigs.html

[Big pig]

We bought the farm in Leon county 35 years ago
No pigs. I remember the first two I saw.
Now we kill hundreds a year. And can’t keep up. Even with AR s and thermal.
Only thing I have seen limits them are droughts at our lease.

I wonder if it’s all The small landowners who don’t hunt and allow them them sanctuaries.

Good question.

[Antlers86]

Global warming

[Muskles]

We never had them around here when I was a younger kid. I was 16 the first time I ever even heard of a wild hog. That was 26 years ago. Can't drive down the road now without seeing the damages they're causing.

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