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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: ChrisG]
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01/30/20 08:28 PM
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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.
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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: Old Stony]
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02/03/20 04:55 AM
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i posted this elsewhere but ill repost here. it pretty much sums up my thoughts...
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Re: Killing those babies ??
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02/03/20 05:23 AM
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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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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: unclebubba]
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02/03/20 06:03 AM
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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.
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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: unclebubba]
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02/03/20 02:31 PM
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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............
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Re: Killing those babies ??
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02/03/20 05:42 PM
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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.
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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: Old Stony]
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02/03/20 09:01 PM
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Those babies can make you go mad throwing lead at them from a helicopter
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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: Old Stony]
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02/05/20 09:10 PM
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These..... Just turn into these....So...looks like I'd better get busy.
Spartans ask not...how many, but where!
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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: Old Stony]
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02/05/20 09:25 PM
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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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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: Old Stony]
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02/05/20 11:43 PM
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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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Spartans ask not...how many, but where!
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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: Old Stony]
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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.
No prayer in school....What's next, no thinking in church? It's not just about pie in the sky when you die. It's also about steak on your plate while you wait!
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Re: Killing those babies ??
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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]
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02/08/20 09:57 PM
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Take them home and finish them on clean water and corn. Then kill em. X3 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. X4
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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: Old Stony]
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02/08/20 10:41 PM
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Those are perfect crockpot size...
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Re: Killing those babies ??
[Re: Old Stony]
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02/09/20 03:06 AM
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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. Well if you try something you give it a valiant effort 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 ??
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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]
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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.
I am not hunting for food or sport.
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