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 Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
[Re: caprocker]
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05/12/08 01:47 PM
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Lonesome Dove are not, hogs will eat any snake they can catch no matter the species.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/12/08 02:10 PM
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I just did not know fawns were dropping right now  
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/12/08 03:02 PM
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I just did not know fawns were dropping right now
5 month gestation period, so does bred in November could have started having babies in April.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/12/08 03:38 PM
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i have watched a big boar eat piglets as they were coming out of a sow. If a hog were to eat a fawn i think it would be during the actual birth or just after.
I don't live in Dallas......
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/13/08 02:07 AM
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i know someone that shot a doe, waited 30 minutes to go get it and the hogs were eating on it when they got to it. on a different note a friend of mine shot a doe with his bow and when he got to it a turkey buzzard had eaten the eye out of it.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/13/08 02:59 AM
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The typical fawn will not move when approached for roughly the first 3 days of being born. After the 3 days, it will let you get close but run when you get right on it.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/13/08 05:32 PM
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i was wondering how they knew.....did the pigs swallow the fawns whole? that sounds a little wak to me, although it is not would not be a shock for a hog to eat a faw, we know they eat meat....as for them getting me if i fall out of a treestand....pack a pistol and dont worry about being the first person to be eaten by a hog because you fell out of the stand...come on people....I would question if a pig had that kind of nerve to approach a live human without other provication
the man at the top of the mountain didn't fall up it
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/13/08 06:18 PM
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Your running under the A$$umption, that if you fell out of a tree stand or off a tripod, that you will be conscious AFTER the impact.
That don't always work out that way. People have died upon impact from falling from elevated stands in the past few years.
It is just one of those nagging little things that a person should keep somewhere in the back of their mind, hogs are pretty muchily all over the state, and I for one would not want to be the test case to see if they would attack an unconscious human. JMO.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/13/08 06:43 PM
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i was wondering how they knew.....did the pigs swallow the fawns whole? that sounds a little wak to me, although it is not would not be a shock for a hog to eat a faw, we know they eat meat....as for them getting me if i fall out of a treestand....pack a pistol and dont worry about being the first person to be eaten by a hog because you fell out of the stand...come on people....I would question if a pig had that kind of nerve to approach a live human without other provication
If the hogs had a deer colored hide in their stomach and 4 hooves, that is a pretty good indication that they ate a fawn, whether it was dead before, during, or after an attack by a pig. I know some people that have a big hog that they feed roadkilled rabbits to and he never slows down on anything that you throw in the pen for him to eat. You better not accidently fall in there with him either.
In regard to the approach by a pig, isn't the only nerve the pig would need would be the smell of blood? I do not really want to take a chance of laying on the ground under a treestand unconscious with a bad cut and be unable to move. Maybe they would be as scared of me as I would be of them, but I think they might be a little ruthless if the situation presented itself.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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05/13/08 11:05 PM
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i've seen them eat the remains of cattle,wich is meat of course but they always leave the skull and the hooves. i guess if it is somthing they can't crush they just pull the meat off of it.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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01/16/09 07:47 PM
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Wow...talk about a bump from the stoneages!
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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01/16/09 07:56 PM
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I have witnessed hogs eating snakes and fish. The snakes were alive and running free, but the fish were trapped in a hole in a creek after the water went down. They ate the fish, mud and all. Mostly mudcat and jackfish.
I've also seen what was left of a deer that one hog was trotting off through the woods with in this mouth like a dog. The deer was full grown, but doubt that the hog killed it.
And hogs can smell the afterbirth when a fawn is born. If they get there quick enough they can get the doe and fawn both.
They are predators.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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01/16/09 07:59 PM
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A few weeks ago, my wife and I were going down the last paved road to our lease. There was a dead deer in the road and it had about 20 hogs on it. When I went into the oncoming lane to go around 'em, THE HOGS DIDN'T QUIT KNAWING ON THE DEER. We didn't even know what they were eating until we drove back the next morning.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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01/16/09 07:59 PM
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It is recorded that on the first night at the Battle of Shiloh that hogs were eating the dead and wounded left on the battlefield.
I have no doubt that hogs will kill and eat young fawns if they can catch them.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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01/16/09 08:48 PM
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Pigs WILL kill & eat snakes with no prob. They will raid ground laying bird nest & eat the eggs as well as any live young...baby rabbits as well. Its been seen here that when we have A LOT of hogs, we DON'T have the rattle snakes but this past summer we DIDN'T have hardly any hogs & I had tons of rattlers around. A new baby fawn is merely a snack to hogs when they are hungry, they don't care.
Its been a while back but there was a show on one of the hunting channels & a guy was hunting hogs, he was in the swamp & came across a big ole boar & he had killed a smaller one & was guarding it & eating it in his wallow when they hunter went to kill him.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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01/16/09 10:25 PM
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when i was a kid i can barely remember a movie called "razorback" i think. does anyone remember this?
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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01/17/09 01:29 AM
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There was an article in one of my older issues of Boar Hunter Magazine about this very subject. They did a study on a ranch in South Texas a couple years back. They took a helicopter out during fawning season and shot 20 hogs over 200 lbs. Out of the 20 hogs, 18 had fawn skins in their stomachs. That's 90%!! I'm sure a few of those fawns died from other causes, but you can bet your butt that some were definitely killed by the hogs.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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we have a big problem with this on my lease
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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01/17/09 03:51 AM
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Another movie reference:
At the beginning of the 1939 Wizard of Oz movie with Judy Garland, she is walking along the top rail of the pig pen. She slips and falls in, and scares the 3 helpers. I can tell you that they are not afraid of her injuring herself; they are afraid that the HOGS will hurt her. And these are "domesticated" hogs (or as close as pigs get to being domesticated, anyway).
Let them run loose for a couple of generations, and interbreed with the Russian boar, and you can fill in the blanks with the result.
Hogs are the fire ant of the mammal world.
Kill all you can, UP TO AND INCLUDING BABIES SO YOUNG THEY HAVE STRIPES!!! Then cook and eat if they are young enough.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
[Re: cody]
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01/17/09 07:56 AM
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Has anyone heard of this happening? A guy here in the office said that some buddies killed 12 hogs up around aspermont last weekend. 8 of them had fawns in there bellies. If this is indeed taking place we'll be deerless in a couple of years.
Where does he hunt that there are fawns in January? Fawns drop in June. Wonder if they where actually new born piglets. Skinner
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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A LOT of piglets will have the "fawn" pattern on their backs until they get older, spots and stripes & such. I have seen large BOARS eating Carrion, dead deer and a dead cow once but Fawns are not dropping this time of year....they are still in gestation like Skinner said. FYI.
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Re: Pigs eating fawns!?
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If you check the date "05/09/08"...that's when he meant/typed it  not this month
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