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Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: ChrisG] #7733482 01/30/20 08:28 PM
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Originally Posted by ChrisG
I have often thought about this when I have piglets trapped. So far I have killed them all but if I had more time and desire I would kill all the females and release the castrated males.


Got a neighbor that has done this in the past. Pisses me off to no end, and I shoot every one I can. Nuts or no nuts, they still tear chit up.

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i posted this elsewhere but ill repost here. it pretty much sums up my thoughts...


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Originally Posted by TOM-M
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I have often thought about this when I have piglets trapped. So far I have killed them all but if I had more time and desire I would kill all the females and release the castrated males.


Got a neighbor that has done this in the past. Pisses me off to no end, and I shoot every one I can. Nuts or no nuts, they still tear chit up.


I haven't done it, but i can understand doing it. I've heard of guys castrating, clipping an ear for ID, then releasing them to be killed later. Take away the desire to reproduce, and they fatten up. Good eating!

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Originally Posted by unclebubba
If you kill a big fat cockroach, and then see three little cockroaches next to the one you just killed, do you let the three little cockroaches go? I look at pigs as really big cockroaches.



I'm with you. Kill the little cockroaches.

Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: unclebubba] #7736342 02/03/20 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by unclebubba
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I have often thought about this when I have piglets trapped. So far I have killed them all but if I had more time and desire I would kill all the females and release the castrated males.


Got a neighbor that has done this in the past. Pisses me off to no end, and I shoot every one I can. Nuts or no nuts, they still tear chit up.


I haven't done it, but i can understand doing it. I've heard of guys castrating, clipping an ear for ID, then releasing them to be killed later. Take away the desire to reproduce, and they fatten up. Good eating!


Yessir, that's what happens and why. If he'd just put a pig proof fence up around his place............

Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: Old Shakie] #7736488 02/03/20 05:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Old Shakie
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I like hunting, but deep down I don’t enjoy killing. Most animals that I’m able to kill get a pass. I’d rather watch them and photograph them any day then to kill them. The exception are pigs and coyotes. None of them get a pass. Pigs are the rude dudes of the outdoors and are so destructive to everything else. If you let any live then don’t tell me about it. Shoot them little or big.



X2......except I would put a few other critters on that list of no mercy extended like rattlesnakes, copperheads, skunks, raccoons and possums.



Do a bit of research on opossums and you’ll sing a different tune. They don’t dig or destroy property, they eat insects like roaches, etc.. After learning what I did, they are welcome in my yard anytime. They are nature’s sanitation engineers. About the worst thing they ever did at my home was drive my coon hound crazy if he got a scent of one.

Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: Old Stony] #7736636 02/03/20 09:01 PM
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Those babies can make you go mad throwing lead at them from a helicopter smile

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These.....



Just turn into these....



So...looks like I'd better get busy.


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Sort of an endless battle ! I didn't have any hogs in my traps this morning, but there were sure a lot of tiny tracks everywhere in the area. Not long back I had pics of lots of really, really, fat sows looking ready to drop some babies....I guess they are doing it now.

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[quote=Old Stony]Sort of an endless battle ! I didn't have any hogs in my traps this morning, but there were sure a lot of tiny tracks everywhere in the area. Not long back I had pics of lots of really, really, fat sows looking ready to drop some babies....I guess they are doing it now.[/quote]

Stony, that is what I am seeing on my game cams right now. Positively huge (pregnant) Sows. Getting ready to drop babies at any time now. They will leave the sounder for a week or so...while nesting and suckling the newborns, but will soon rejoin the group with all the little ones 'in tow'. By the time the piglets are two weeks old...they have no trouble following mom just about anywhere.

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Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: Old Stony] #7739374 02/06/20 07:49 PM
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Little oinkers are delicious, so yes, little ones in my trap are going in the ice chest. food


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Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: Old Stony] #7740826 02/08/20 05:51 PM
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Okay...Okay.....I finally gave up and took care of a few today. I still have some feelings about killing babies, but I guess some of them need to be done with.
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Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: Vern1] #7740949 02/08/20 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Vern1
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Take them home and finish them on clean water and corn. Then kill em.


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If you have a place and time to keep them, it could turn out delicious.
If you feed them good now, they will feed you good later and you will have a good idea what went into them beforehand.
Or possibly one of the folks you give pigs to will want them.

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Those are perfect crockpot size... food


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Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: Old Stony] #7741133 02/09/20 03:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Old Stony
Okay...Okay.....I finally gave up and took care of a few today. I still have some feelings about killing babies, but I guess some of them need to be done with.
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Sorry Old Stony, it just struck me funny. Nice haul today, if you don’t like killing them don’t do it.


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Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: Old Stony] #7741252 02/09/20 02:51 PM
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They are cool when they are that little,and hogs have a very structured family system
As far as killing babies
I have a different prospective as a hog hunting guide on one of my properties is a mostly
Untouched by humans creek bottom to keep populations up we hunt the mature
Boars first then eating size 80 plus pounds the last on target list are sows with shoats
In the bottom they regulate their population naturally and we hunt it regularly so need more targets
Growing up
Then on the other hand I hunt a fenced property that ever hog in the fence is to be killed
On sight and those babies pop like balloons



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Re: Killing those babies ?? [Re: Old Stony] #7741770 02/10/20 02:30 AM
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Good job Stony. In the aggregate those hogs represent thousands of new hogs if left to mature and breed.

IF the idea is to keep numbers down...then you did the right thing....no matter how unpleasant. I take no pleasure in killing any hog (size matters not), I am simply trying to protect my property. It is a necessary thing to do. If I had my way, there would be NO hogs in Texas.

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