I would also suggest putting a Gallagher electric fence around your hayfields.
That is about the only thing that will keep them out of the fields. Especially this time of year when the wild onions, etc. start growing.
What part of Comfort if you don't mind me asking? Our lease in Comfort has been covered up with hogs for the last 20 years.....your casa must have been the last sanctuary!
East of Comfort bout 7 miles. In Kerr Co. They have been not to far west of me for years. Knew it would happen one day
Their pretty thick along the old Guadalupe River there as well as many of the feeder streams that drop into the river there.
Spotted a big bloated dead hog along Town Creek in Kerrville about a month ago. This hog was inside the City Limits.....first time to see one there but, I was not surprised one bit. As it is with many of these hill country hogs....they are following known rivers and streams....expanding every year!
Any stream or trickle of water.....even free standing stock ponds that somehow made it through the recent drought....they are all fair game for hogs now! They smell mud and water for miles.....I honestly think they head for that smell of water and mud and BINGO.....all it takes is one pair to fire it up! Their sense of smell is unreal....and my thought is......water brings them in! Much like it is for alligators during droughts, they can smell water and start their migration to that source..following their nose to get there. Gators get found in between water sources...in some of the strangest places out Florida way. It's pretty much like hogs here...except....hogs are way more adaptable and breed like roaches!
Krivo and I spotted a mud wallow on his place out in Lamapasas several years ago. Mitch mentioned the same thing "Ain't no hogs here!" Well.....he's got them now and that wallow was one of the first signs of more to come.
We are one of the other ranches for now. No hogs....No natural creeks, tanks, or ponds. Just concrete water well water for all the wildlife. I'd like to have them for offseason targets but glad they aren't there to hassle deer during season. I'm told they are close but most seem to be closer to the little concho river which is about 8 miles away. My landowner hasn't seen any in his 19 years on the place.
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