texashuntingforum.com logo
Main Menu
Advertisement
Affiliates
Advertisement
Newest Members
TraeMartin, Beatixre, MooseSteed, Trappernewt, casyoo
71987 Registered Users
Top Posters(All Time)
dogcatcher 110,788
bill oxner 91,416
SnakeWrangler 65,416
stxranchman 60,296
Gravytrain 46,950
RKHarm24 44,585
rifleman 44,461
Stub 43,769
Forum Statistics
Forums46
Topics537,014
Posts9,719,426
Members86,987
Most Online25,604
Feb 12th, 2024
Print Thread
Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? #7378110 12/16/18 02:49 AM
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 1,044
O
Old Shakie Offline OP
Pro Tracker
OP Offline
Pro Tracker
O
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 1,044
Just curious....Can anyone on here tell me will feral hogs eat dead hogs? I know they are omnivores and was wondering if they would eat their own dead.

Last edited by Old Shakie; 12/16/18 02:50 AM.
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7378128 12/16/18 03:29 AM
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 25,138
Creekrunner Offline
THF Celebrity
Offline
THF Celebrity
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 25,138
Yes.


...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7378130 12/16/18 03:39 AM
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 32,442
kmon11 Online Shocked
junior
Online Shocked
junior
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 32,442
Yes and if you do not get a dead pig out of the pens quick enough you will not have to in a domestic hog facility as well.


lf the saying "Liar, Liar your pants on fire" were true
Mainstream news might be fun to watch
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Creekrunner] #7378132 12/16/18 03:40 AM
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 29,609
S
SapperTitan Offline
Taking Requests
Offline
Taking Requests
S
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 29,609
Originally Posted by Creekrunner
Yes.

Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7378137 12/16/18 03:56 AM
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 4,056
P
Pig_Popper Online Content
Extreme Tracker
Online Content
Extreme Tracker
P
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 4,056


This space is For Sale - inquire within ...
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7378266 12/16/18 03:22 PM
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 3,560
G
garyrapp55 Offline
Extreme Tracker
Offline
Extreme Tracker
G
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 3,560
How common is it though, my guess not very? I try to get a pass through and kill 2 in 1 shot with the first shot and I'm sure some run off wounded and die. Do you think the remaining sounder eats it, or just moves on?

Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: garyrapp55] #7378289 12/16/18 04:15 PM
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 4,056
P
Pig_Popper Online Content
Extreme Tracker
Online Content
Extreme Tracker
P
Joined: Aug 2015
Posts: 4,056
Originally Posted by garyrapp55
How common is it though, my guess not very? I try to get a pass through and kill 2 in 1 shot with the first shot and I'm sure some run off wounded and die. Do you think the remaining sounder eats it, or just moves on?


Its as common as it needs to be:

My uncle used to have pigs on property in a pen and he’d dump scraps of all varieties in the pen.

He’d warn us to make sure the small kids stayed away from the pen because the pigs would consider anything coming inside as a meal option.


This space is For Sale - inquire within ...
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7378306 12/16/18 04:52 PM
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 2,810
R
RattlesnakeDan Online Content
Veteran Tracker
Online Content
Veteran Tracker
R
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 2,810
Yes they will. I have watched them eat hogs, birds, coyotes, deer and a horse...so maybe nothing is off limits.


Just like Jesus, sometimes you gotta kill some hogs.
Lone Star Mesquite . com
RattleSnake Dan's Shredding Service
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7378309 12/16/18 04:56 PM
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 7,918
B
bigjoe8565 Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
Online Content
THF Trophy Hunter
B
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 7,918
Saw two eating on a dead cow at our lease.

Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Pig_Popper] #7378330 12/16/18 05:22 PM
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 1,044
O
Old Shakie Offline OP
Pro Tracker
OP Offline
Pro Tracker
O
Joined: Sep 2018
Posts: 1,044
Originally Posted by Pig_Popper
Originally Posted by garyrapp55
How common is it though, my guess not very? I try to get a pass through and kill 2 in 1 shot with the first shot and I'm sure some run off wounded and die. Do you think the remaining sounder eats it, or just moves on?


Its as common as it needs to be:

My uncle used to have pigs on property in a pen and he’d dump scraps of all varieties in the pen.

He’d warn us to make sure the small kids stayed away from the pen because the pigs would consider anything coming inside as a meal option.




My Dad used to say " you never feed meat to a (domestic) pig because it will become blood thirsty".

Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7378692 12/17/18 01:34 AM
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 820
R
Red Pill Offline
Tracker
Offline
Tracker
R
Joined: Dec 2017
Posts: 820
Yep.

Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7378768 12/17/18 02:34 AM
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 8,218
Double Naught Spy Online Happy
THF Trophy Hunter
Online Happy
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 8,218
Just about any animal that is an omnivore or a carnivore may possibly be cannibalistic. Hogs are not anything special.


Hogdalorian - Si vis pacem cum sus, para bellum.
My Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/HornHillRange
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Double Naught Spy] #7379059 12/17/18 03:12 PM
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 3,560
G
garyrapp55 Offline
Extreme Tracker
Offline
Extreme Tracker
G
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 3,560
Originally Posted by Double Naught Spy
Just about any animal that is an omnivore or a carnivore may possibly be cannibalistic. Hogs are not anything special.

Great point. Starve me a few days and I'll chew your arm off.

Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: garyrapp55] #7379205 12/17/18 05:32 PM
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 8,218
Double Naught Spy Online Happy
THF Trophy Hunter
Online Happy
THF Trophy Hunter
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 8,218
Originally Posted by garyrapp55
Originally Posted by Double Naught Spy
Just about any animal that is an omnivore or a carnivore may possibly be cannibalistic. Hogs are not anything special.

Great point. Starve me a few days and I'll chew your arm off.


Please select my non dominant arm.


Hogdalorian - Si vis pacem cum sus, para bellum.
My Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/HornHillRange
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7379338 12/17/18 07:50 PM
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 39,481
R
redchevy Offline
THF Celebrity
Offline
THF Celebrity
R
Joined: Oct 2004
Posts: 39,481
Have shot hogs over chicken guts and chicken manure. Have seen hogs fed deer guts/hog guts and trimmings. I think a dead hog in the wild is much much more likely to be eaten by coyotes and vultures than by other hogs.


It's hell eatin em live
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: redchevy] #7380928 12/19/18 02:09 AM
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 5,112
F
flintknapper Offline
THF Trophy Hunter
Offline
THF Trophy Hunter
F
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 5,112
Originally Posted by redchevy
Have shot hogs over chicken guts and chicken manure. Have seen hogs fed deer guts/hog guts and trimmings. I think a dead hog in the wild is much much more likely to be eaten by coyotes and vultures than by other hogs.


I have no doubt that under certain conditions...hogs would consume the carcass of their same kind. I haven't ever witnessed that happening but they will readily eat carrion. In my case....Coyotes and Buzzards invariably find the carcasses first and devour them. Entire 'large' hogs (well over 200 lbs. completely gone in a couple of days).

I have seen evidence of hogs eating the carcass of a Dead Donkey that I hauled off. For some reason...nothing else would touch it. It sat unmolested for a few days. Then the hogs found it.

I do have a video from one of my cameras of a Sow Hog snatching up a piglet and running off with it. Grabbed it right by the middle and carried it off. I don't know what to make of that. A big group of hogs were all bunched together feeding on a small pile of corn and this Sow comes running in from out of the video frame, snatches up the piglet and runs off with it. I'm not suggesting she mean't to kill/eat it, but I've never seen that before. They normally just knock them out of the way.

Attached Files HogScavange1.jpgHogScavange2.jpg
Last edited by flintknapper; 12/19/18 03:24 AM.

Spartans ask not...how many, but where!
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7382140 12/20/18 06:12 AM
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 252
C
cliffie Offline
Bird Dog
Offline
Bird Dog
C
Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 252
First time I ever went hunting in Utah (40 yrs ago) it was on a farm that had hogs in a pen. The owners first words to me were never get in the hog pen. He tossed the skeleton of one of our deer in there and it was gone in just a few minutes. Woke me up for sure.

Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7384626 12/22/18 10:49 PM
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,655
C
colt45-90 Offline
Texas colt45
Offline
Texas colt45
C
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 11,655
sows will eat the baby pigs, usually if something is wrong or the piglet is dead


hold on Newt, we got a runaway
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: Old Shakie] #7393122 01/02/19 03:42 AM
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 1,380
N
Normanpig Offline
Pro Tracker
Offline
Pro Tracker
N
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 1,380
For sure on the meat. The hogs on our lease intermingle with the cows and constantly have faces covered in cow $hit.


yep, sure, why not
Re: Question...Are feral hogs cannibalistic? [Re: garyrapp55] #7395578 01/04/19 04:43 PM
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 2,267
S
Sirrah243 Offline
Veteran Tracker
Offline
Veteran Tracker
S
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 2,267

Great point. Starve me a few days and I'll chew your arm off.[/quote]
roflmao rofl


�A hunt based only on the trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.� -Fred Bear
Previous Thread
Index
Next Thread

© 2004-2024 OUTDOOR SITES NETWORK all rights reserved USA and Worldwide
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.7.3