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What they're eating -June edition
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06/10/20 11:29 PM
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Re: What they're eating -June edition
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06/11/20 06:51 AM
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Eating under an oak tree, an area not touched by hogs? My guess is that while he may be eating invertebrates, he is probably also eating acorns. He may be eating acorns because they are acorns and he likes acorns, and/or because this late in the game, many are probably homes to worms. He may be eating sprouted acorns.
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Re: What they're eating -June edition
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06/11/20 09:33 AM
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Re: What they're eating -June edition
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06/11/20 03:50 PM
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DNS - let me rephrase. This place use to be covered in hogs. The fenceline in the pic separates 2 pastures. To the right it slopes off to a creek bottom about 300 yards off. I've thinned them out to where they stay in the creek bottom area. Haven't seen sign - tracks, rooting, video - in 2 years on this fenceline or in the north pasture. I have seen them rooting here before and there are a ton of june bugs under these trees for whatever reason. The fenceline has greenbriars and they've rooted up the greenbriar literally all along the fenceline in the past. My point was that they're roaming the property more which has surprised me b/c I hadn't seen it in a while.
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Re: What they're eating -June edition
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06/11/20 04:24 PM
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DT - I am sure you are making some point, but I have no idea what it is. All the stuff you stated in no way conflicts with the notion that the hog may be utilizing acorns still under the tree that apparently has been without hogs for a couple of years. Hogs eat acorns fresh, old, wormy, sprouted, buried by squirrels, etc. They will eat them until they are gone, whether that happens by early winter or well into the following year.
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Re: What they're eating -June edition
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06/11/20 05:00 PM
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Re: What they're eating -June edition
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06/11/20 05:11 PM
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Just sharing observations. Carpe diem!
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