Hog question

[quarterback]

Is the scent of this dog keeping the hogs away? (people hog dog alot around me)

There's your answer.

[TXHUNT3R]

There's your answer.

This is why I even asked the question. If they associate the smell of a dog with danger, might be keeping them at bay.

Worth a shot to ask ol Jack to stop grabbing my memory card for me and I will go do it myself.

[Marco]

No that's a good habit for him to have. Hogs will return though if there is food source. I run dogs on my place after deer season. They eventually return.

[SwampRabbit]

I am by no means and expert... but I have a keyboard and internet access so here we go:

I did some research on my own about this type of thing. From my research I have found that unlike deer, or other animals, hogs aren't territorial. If they feel a bit of pressure, they will move on. They are apparently very transient. What most people, with really bad hog problems have is when they are in a highway or a corridor where there is alot of traffic coming through. If some pigs leave, more are just ready to come in and replace the ones you pressured out. If there isn't a huge poplulation, then they have options to move on eslewhere.

Now, what you haven't said is how big your place is.

[TXHUNT3R]

I am by no means and expert... but I have a keyboard and internet access so here we go:

I did some research on my own about this type of thing. From my research I have found that unlike deer, or other animals, hogs aren't territorial. If they feel a bit of pressure, they will move on. They are apparently very transient. What most people, with really bad hog problems have is when they are in a highway or a corridor where there is alot of traffic coming through. If some pigs leave, more are just ready to come in and replace the ones you pressured out. If there isn't a huge poplulation, then they have options to move on eslewhere.

Now, what you haven't said is how big your place is.

I hunt the edge of about a thousand acres of woods. These woods have a spring creek running through it. The woods are surrounded by farms and have two sides blocked off by major highways.

Long story short, these hogs do NOT have to leave this area to find food or water. Each of the farms backing up to these woods hunt but not as much as I do. My direct neighbors run dogs every so often.

[SwampRabbit]

Well, just throwing some other "reasons" out there.

We've seen more rain this year than last. On both places I hunt, the Deer and Hogs just stopped coming to feeders period. There was just a bounty of food elsewhere, closer to where they bedded.

Could be your dog... but I somewhat doubt that (again, by no means an expert.)

I'd say go to the hogs. Walk into those woods and find'em and whack em.

[RogueSamurai]

They move around a lot. Our place will be covered up in them one day and not the next.

[panhandlehunter]

Here at my house, the hogs leave late winter and show back up around June. I've owned the property now for 5 years and it's the same every year. I have no idea where they go.

[Marco]

On our place they are there all the time. We pressure them and they eventually return we byhave owned our place close to 170 years

[gonehuntin68]

I am by no means and expert... but I have a keyboard and internet access so here we go:

I did some research on my own about this type of thing. From my research I have found that unlike deer, or other animals, hogs aren't territorial. If they feel a bit of pressure, they will move on. They are apparently very transient. What most people, with really bad hog problems have is when they are in a highway or a corridor where there is alot of traffic coming through. If some pigs leave, more are just ready to come in and replace the ones you pressured out. If there isn't a huge poplulation, then they have options to move on eslewhere.

Now, what you haven't said is how big your place is.

I agree with the above. My question to you though is why do you move the feeder in and out of your feed pens? Why not just lift one panel of the pen in the off season to let the hogs in. This is what I do and it works great and is a lot easier then moving the feeder twice a year. Also sometimes when you shoot a hog inside a pen with only one way in and out they sometimes can't find the exit and die inside the pen. This makes for very easy tracking.

[TXHUNT3R]

I agree with the above. My question to you though is why do you move the feeder in and out of your feed pens? Why not just lift one panel of the pen in the off season to let the hogs in. This is what I do and it works great and is a lot easier then moving the feeder twice a year. Also sometimes when you shoot a hog inside a pen with only one way in and out they sometimes can't find the exit and die inside the pen. This makes for very easy tracking.

I like the part about the pig getting stuck in there.

Reason I don't want the hogs in the pen at any point is I run a fall and spring food plot in this pen. I don't ever want them to try to get back in once I have shut them out. This way they never get a taste of whats on the other side.

Photo gives you a idea. I have since put in a 55 gal feeder and did away with the little one in the photo.

[RiverRat1]

Don't worry, dog or not they will be back.

Over the next 10 years they will be encroaching most Texas cities.

Biggest urban legend out there.

I heard this 10 years ago..and even 20 years ago. And I had hogs on 3 different places 10+ years ago. Guess what, they're still not multiplying. It's all about the area you're in. Hogs will not be the end of Texas.

[hogdaddy]

we lose our every year when the wheat starts heading out, after its not available they will be back.

[Cropduster]

Your hogs have simply found another food source that they like better than the one on your place. There has also been a decline in the number of hogs because of the drought that we have been having. If you have a river or large live creek in your area, there is a good chance that the hogs have migrated toward that type environment. If you continue to supply them with food, then the time will come when they will return.

[gonehuntin68]

I like the part about the pig getting stuck in there.

Reason I don't want the hogs in the pen at any point is I run a fall and spring food plot in this pen. I don't ever want them to try to get back in once I have shut them out. This way they never get a taste of whats on the other side.

Photo gives you a idea. I have since put in a 55 gal feeder and did away with the little one in the photo.

Now I understand and I completely agree with you.