http://www.reporternews.com/story/money/...-hogs/98057838/

I can't imagine this won't impact other animals that get into it. Not sure this sounds like the best of ideas.

Bring it. 'Heard they were using this in Australia. I was told it's in a free choice container that only the strength of a pig's snout can lift. We'll see.

We used the BBT ta control the hogs, & deer # increased, 4 deer county when i left...

I'd be concerned with what effects it would have on animals that eat the dead pigs.....to include humans who shoot and consume a pig they didn't know was poisoned.....

Still, I can see something like this being extremely beneficial in the battle against feral hogs......

From Wikipedia......

Eating one that you didn't know was poisoned is concerning.

JMO but I'd rather see the scientists find a way to interrupt the breeding cycle of hogs. Not crazy about the idea of using poison on animals that other animals eat.

....and that people eat.....

Roger that.

If dyes are used as they do for rat poison (I don't know if all brands do this or not), then the fat in the body will change color to the color of the dye as with the blue fat pig seen here that apparently had eaten rodent poison.

http://www.outdoorhub.com/news/2015/09/10/photos-wild-pig-blue-fat-found-california/

That would be helpful.

I think maybe the biggest safety concern for humans is the consumption of warfarin hogs by humans already on meds like warfarin.

NOT GOOD !

Skip the blood thinner meds and eat a blue porkchop.

My concern is eating a hog that was medicated/poisoned.
So hope the blue fat is not something that happens after prolonged consumption, but after single dose.

Maybe hogs with heart problems will be cured.

Totally different product than what has been used in Australia.

Agree, find something that sterilizes them or otherwise stops or slows them from reproducing.

BIG X3

Here is an interesting article on the use of warfarin on hogs. It discusses the technique to use the poison and it's potential danger to other wildlife.

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2017/02/wild_hog_poison_likely_coming.html

I sure hope this works out. It seems like collateral damage can be minimized if the folks applying the poison act responsibly and use it correctly. My concern is, there will be some hootleheads that don't really care what else it kills and will just haphazardly pour it on the ground.

I've been hog hunting here on the coast most of this last week. The hog population down here was out of hand before, this year it has been insane. We just can't kill enough of them. The damage they are doing to some prime coastal whitetail habitat is really heartbreaking. It has dramatically reduced the carrying capacity for not just deer, but all wildlife. As much as I enjoy hunting them, I'll be glad to see their numbers knocked WAY down.

Interesting Palehorse. You have to bait the trap for many weeks with non-lethal bait so as to acclimatize the hogs to the trap and to teach them how to use it and then change over to the poison bait and kill the educated hogs, then start the process anew when to kill other hogs. Interesting. Sounds like a lot of time an expense to get hogs to learn to use the feeder. Sounds like a lot of down time when the feeder isn't killing hogs.

I am not convinced by what is described that non-target species will be protected all that well. I would anticipate a lot of bird die offs to result, squirrels, raccoons, etc.

I have no idea why they'd choose to use warfarin. Sodium Nitrite would be a much better option, since it metabolizes very quickly, and most animals can't eat enough at a time to do them significant harm. Pigs are the exception...for some reason SN works extremely well on them, whereas Warfarin is dangerous to all animals. Pigs being, well...pigs, will inevitably knock bait out or the pig specific bait dispensers, making it fair game for other nontarget animals. I'd sure like to hear their reasoning behind approving such an indiscriminate toxin such as warfarin. Especially in light of recent legislation concerning proposed restrictions on both otc and restricted use rodenticides, in addition to the well established FIFRA legislation already in effect.

PS: The colored dyes in rodent baits do not change the color of their tissues. It's simply a colored parrafin wax that passes through their system.

If you're going to acclimate the pigs to the bait site why not just use sodium cyanide that's used for predator control....seems to me if your are going to replace bait with poison why not go with something that really hammers them....should make recovery and disposal easier too....

Any form of cyanide, which is a heavy metal, is accumulative in the tissues, especially the liver and kidneys. It's a highly systemic toxin, which cannot be metabolized by the body. If a bobcat eats a dog that ate a cat that ate a rat that ate cyanide...everyone involved in that food chain is likely to be affected. If a pig eats a non-lethal dose and then gets shot by a hunter, anyone that partakes of that meat could conceivably ingest some.

This is just so crazy. Both the bait and poison delivery system are markedly flawed.

Why Warfarin has been chosen instead of Sodium Nitrite is beyond me. Plus the delivery system (they've been testing and have had doubts about for years) just isn't going to work and folks are going to start pouring the stuff right out on the ground.

This is a prime example of how if you get enough people together (wanting to make profit) you can (eventually) get any ridiculous product out on the market.

Everything about this effort is destined to fail....except the money making.

I agree that some 'method' (that can be applied on a large scale) is needed if we ever hope to trim back the hog population, but THIS isn't it.

It also raises another question...
What state licensing will this product fall under? Commercial, non-commercial, private...or all of them? Relatively few farmers are licensed for herbicide application, and even fewer are licensed for pesticide/rodenticide application. I can only imagine what the bait and dispensers will cost, not only to buy, but to maintain. They'll also need to be checked several times a week to make sure no product has been spilled or knocked out into the open area beyond the protection of the dispenser, thereby making it accessible to non-target animals.
I'd also like to know how the state will react to the death of game animals due to the use of this product, or any animal besides pigs. Will Farmer Brown be fined and/or imprisoned if he accidentally kills a deer or his neighbors dog with this stuff? You can't expect people to put a toxin in the woods, and then not expect collateral damage as a result. Just the rodenticides we use for rats and mice are enough to kill a dog or a small kid, so any amount in doses large enough to kill an adult pig will play havoc with just about anything in the state...including calves, foals, and fawns.

Just sounds like another one of those..."Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to help...." scenarios...

Getting the hogs to keep coming back to a feeder is needed for this to work.
I see shooting them much faster. Issue is sustained pressure.
But with not knowing who has hog problems and getting access to property.
Oklahoma had a online data base of information on reported hog problems
but it didn't seem to be used much.
Something along those lines would put shooters in touch with landowners that need them.
As well as provide a method of feedback on shooters success.

Articles about, knowledge of the poison ingredient, and persons learning how warfarin works on hogs, is only going to lead to persons using easily available warfarin based poisons labeled for rodent control in attempt to control hogs. The haphazard baiting that will come with the illegal off label use has great potential to create a lot of problems with off target animals wild, pet, and domestic. And us when we eat a warfarin rodenticide baited hog or sell it to a feral hog buyer headed to a foreign market. IMHO, ripe with potential problems in many ways.