Texas Hog Hunters Association

Mar 3, 2017 — Texas Hog Hunters Association and Wild Boar meat company successfully had an injunction placed against Sid Miller which invalidates his emergency rule for the use of a warfarin based poison to be used against Feral Hogs.

We stand firm on our no poison position and look forward to working with lawmakers in stopping this permanently.

This injunction gives us all until March 30, so we still need to be diligent in our efforts and continue to press Austin and our representatives.

We will have to take this fight to Austin so your help is greatly needed.

Thanks to everyone and please keep sharing and pushing back.

Scott Dover

It sure is going to reduce the number of people who consume feral hogs.

The amount of Warfarin in the bait is extremely low, 0.005% (.00005), and the hogs have to eat a large amount of it everyday over at least 5 days.

For humans, Warfarin has saved millions of lives by managing high blood pressure and preventing blood clots and strokes.

Hogs on the other hand have a very low tolerance for Warfarin. Warfarin gets into their bloodstream and kills them through internal hemorrhaging.
I'm not a medical doctor, but if you are already on the maximum dose of Warfarin then it wouldn't be prudent to drink the blood of several dead hogs everyday if they were killed with Warfarin. I don't think you could eat enough of the meat to even get a reading.

If you were to shoot a hog that had consumed the bait from another property, you would know it when you went to skin it out since the strong blue dye in the bait colors the insides.

[If you were to shoot a hog that had consumed the bait from another property, you would know it when you went to skin it out since the strong blue dye in the bait colors the insides.

What about birds of pray... Eagles Hawks and Owls ETC. ???

This uneducated Troll wants to know !!!

The hysteria over this is almost laughable, and it's not all coming from the animal rights freaks.

The state isn't going to treat private property with a feral hog control substance and there are no plans to treat state lands either.

Feral hogs are currently doing 800 million in damage to farm crops and immeasurable damage to wildlife.

Folks freak out at the sight of a coyote because they eat fawns. Well hogs eat fawns as well, and they also eat food that deer depend on....coyotes don't.





The only successful eradication of feral hogs took place on Santa Cruz Island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California where the hogs could not come back in to repopulate the area.

After many unsuccessful attempts, the National Park Service and the Nature Conservancy, which co-own the island, contracted with Prohunt, Inc. out of New Zealand to remove the feral hogs from the 96 square mile island (1/3rd the size of Cozumel). The state of Texas is 2,798 times that size.

Prohunt cross fenced the island to restrict the hogs' movement, used extensive trapping, baiting, ground hunting with teams of dogs, infrared sensing devices and radio trackers, and their most effective method, shooting them from helicopters.

It took over two years to remove the 5,036 hogs at a cost of $5 million, or $988 per pig.

After 10 years of testing, the EPA, the Texas Department of Agriculture and Texas A&M AgriLife Research has approved a hog bait that contains 0.005% Wararin.

Humans have been taking Warfarin for 60 years to prevent blood clots.

It so happens that hogs have an extremely low tolerance for Warfarin.

By law, the bait can only be purchased and dispensed by a licensed professional and it will only be placed on private properties where the landowner is willing to pay for some relief from constant hog damage. These properties will eventually be repopulated with hogs from adjacent properties where there is no hog control.

Kaput, the company that makes the bait also makes the required bait station for dispensing the bait. The bait station uses a 10-lb sliding door that has to be rooted up by the hog to get access to the bait. At first, the non-toxic version of the bait is used to get the hogs used to feeding on it. Then the door is installed and once the hogs learn to root the door up the bait with the Warfarin is used. The bait with the Warfarin has a strong blue dye in it. It may take a month to get to that point, and then the hog has to eat the bait every day for 5 to 7 days before it becomes lethal.

Vitamin K is the antidote for too much Wararin ingestion but it’s virtually impossible for wildlife or pets to consume enough Wararin from eating dead hog meat to cause any issues.

I think that less than 1% of landowners will ever spend the money to have their property treated one time, let alone more often. It is for this reason that I believe that the legalization of Warfarin won't put a dent in the hog population, but it can give some relief to farmers who have a severe hog damage problem.

After 10 years of testing, the EPA, the Texas Department of Agriculture and Texas A&M AgriLife Research has approved a hog bait that contains 0.005% Wararin.

Humans have been taking Warfarin for 60 years to prevent blood clots.

It so happens that hogs have an extremely low tolerance for Warfarin.

By law, the bait can only be purchased and dispensed by a licensed professional and it will only be placed on private properties where the landowner is willing to pay for some relief from constant hog damage. These properties will eventually be repopulated with hogs from adjacent properties where there is no hog control.

Kaput, the company that makes the bait also makes the required bait station for dispensing the bait. The bait station uses a 10-lb sliding door that has to be rooted up by the hog to get access to the bait. At first, the non-toxic version of the bait is used to get the hogs used to feeding on it. Then the door is installed and once the hogs learn to root the door up the bait with the Warfarin is used. The bait with the Warfarin has a strong blue dye in it. It may take a month to get to that point, and then the hog has to eat the bait every day for 5 to 7 days before it becomes lethal.

Vitamin K is the antidote for too much Wararin ingestion but it’s virtually impossible for wildlife or pets to consume enough Wararin from eating dead hog meat to cause any issues.

I think that less than 1% of landowners will ever spend the money to have their property treated one time, let alone more often. It is for this reason that I believe that the legalization of Warfarin won't put a dent in the hog population, but it can give some relief to farmers who have a severe hog damage problem.

Again, my opinion is that not over 1% of landowners are going to pony up the money to have this done one time let alone pay for follow up treatments after hogs repopulate from adjoining lands where no hog control is conducted. [b][/b]

Hopefully not. Poisoning a food source is a STUPID [censored] idea.

all I keep seeing is a bunch of cry baby hunters

I will gladly let you and anyone else come out here and smooth all the hog damage, probably only about 20 acres for now. I know all about that, smooth plenty of it myself.

and as for your "food source", sorry but that liberal talking point won't fly, you can buy pig in the store CHEAPER and SAFER than you can hunt them. prove me wrong. LIBERAL??? You have got me some kind of [censored] up. I have 4 freezers that stay full of feral pork. I process my own meat and feed it to my children and many others, all sorts of sausages and different cuts of meat, you name it. HELL YES it's cheaper than buying that many hundreds or THOUSANDS of pounds from the local grocery store that folks like me put out every year. Yes, I can prove you wrong. Good lord


all I keep seeing is a bunch of cry baby hunters that

1. think a landowner has no right to control the damage done to his land and crops no argument here...

2. only about 3.27 of ya have even read up on this chit and are talking out your backsides. I can assure you that I don't fall into that category.

3. those of us that have to live with hogs on a daily basis (no, no reference to anyones wife) get pretty dam sick and tired of spending the time it takes to try to just control these vermin as they will never be gone completely. When you've had enough, send me a PM. I am not only an avid hog hunter of 25 + yrs, I hold a second job working for a full time feral pig removal business. Currently contracted on 250,000 + acres and some smaller properties that are trying to be developed. Do some work for TPWD. We are very good at killing pigs, use ALL methods minus airborne and poison.

4. MAN brought the pigs to this continent, WE caused this problem and now that a product comes along that will help abate the damage and destruction done those who perceive some sort of right to hunt others property and tell them how to run it are all butthurt. I have no right to step foot on another's land, but using Warfarin is a horrible idea. This is not a product that will help abate the damage and destruction caused by feral pigs. It will do more harm than good. If you wanna poison pigs, use sodium nitrite.



sorry but I have yet to see any one prove there is one iota of bad that can come of this. again I say, prove me wrong.

I take it you, your children or grandchildren don't eat feral pigs, so nothing I can say will matter.


This is not the way...and if you ever call me a liberal again I will kick you in your internet nuts. Sir