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Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… #8485016 12/23/21 07:05 PM
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I didn’t think a full hog would compost , much less a stack of hogs !



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Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: Pig_Popper] #8485047 12/23/21 07:44 PM
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I cant imagine how bad that smells. Regular Compost nearly makes me puke.

Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: Pig_Popper] #8485049 12/23/21 07:45 PM
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That is both amazing and frustrating at the same time.

That's not far from my north pole on the prairie location and this mess is crippling the small producers and hurting the larger operations significantly as well.

If I wanted to make drug dealer money I'd squat in a machine shed with $200 worth of marketplace stainless steel tables and butcher surplus hogs non stop and have a partner sell them off of farmers markets and marketplace. But, the government would toss me in jail and take everything I own if I competed against the $5 a pound ground sausage supply chain shortage they created.

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Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: Pig_Popper] #8485103 12/23/21 09:14 PM
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I just installed my new Tactacam Reveal SK, and got my first picture from it. I'd like some guesses on weight and age of this hog.

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Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: mikei] #8485200 12/23/21 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by mikei
I just installed my new Tactacam Reveal SK, and got my first picture from it. I'd like some guesses on weight and age of this hog.

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Early 60’s and 190 pounds. Looks mature to me

Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: mikei] #8485616 12/24/21 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by mikei
I just installed my new Tactacam Reveal SK, and got my first picture from it. I'd like some guesses on weight and age of this hog.



Are you thinking about being composted?


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Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: mikei] #8485724 12/24/21 05:20 PM
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Originally Posted by mikei
I just installed my new Tactacam Reveal SK, and got my first picture from it. I'd like some guesses on weight and age of this hog.

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Doesn't look like an eater to me!


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Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: Double Naught Spy] #8485725 12/24/21 05:21 PM
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I just installed my new Tactacam Reveal SK, and got my first picture from it. I'd like some guesses on weight and age of this hog.



Are you thinking about being composted?


Not really; just trying to have some fun!

Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: Pig_Popper] #8485815 12/24/21 07:38 PM
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I never compost them. I run them through the local buzzards for guano.

Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: garyrapp55] #8486243 12/25/21 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by garyrapp55
I never compost them. I run them through the local buzzards for guano.


Same same here.


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Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: Pig_Popper] #8486823 12/26/21 02:46 AM
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Most of the times they will completely disappear within just a couple days or so in my area.

Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: Pig_Popper] #8487435 12/27/21 01:28 AM
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The time it takes for a hog to 'disappear' varies, but I shot this one in the morning last summer and cut the back straps and hindquarters off. I then dumped the carcass about 8:30AM. When I returned to the area six hours later this is what was left —

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Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: der Teufel] #8488790 12/28/21 06:33 PM
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That's what happens on the place I hunt. The buzzards and Mexican eagles eat them in a day or two.


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Re: Any landowners composting your hog kills? 20+ days for near complete decay… [Re: Pig_Popper] #8495123 01/04/22 09:04 PM
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Our get cleaned out within days, similar to the picture above. Even the smaller bones get dragged away by critters, usually you're left with a skill, scapula and maybe a femur bone or two....


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