I'm not some serious hunter, not into trophy stuff, I prefer to harvest Axis for food, and if I don't get an Axis I'll take a Whitetail.

Hogs are running rampant at my place this year. I will be defending feeders and plots with fencing/pens to keep them out, but I'll have to try to curb the population by means of force. I'm not going to invest in traps, as I live 200 miles away from the property, and don't want to deal with all of that.

Last weekend I shot 3 hogs, and an elderly neighbor said he'd take them, but he doesn't have the freezer capacity for more. I don't particularly care to deal with processing hogs for meat, save for a couple of piglets once a year.

What to do with the rest of the dead? Bury? Burn? Leave for coyote/buzzard?

We trap and eat a lot of pigs of all sizes. When have more than we know what to do with; I have a list of friends/acquaintances that are very happy to come pick them up and do the processing themselves. Not to paint with too broad of a brush, but I've also found that the Spanish-speaking population is generally very happy to have the meat.

drag away from feeder area & Leave for coyote/buzzard

If you leave them, puncture the body cavity and they will get utilized faster.

Right, we split the bellies, usually. It does speed things along when otherwise they might be slow. We have done side by side and the the hog with the split belly gets eaten first or gets eaten more and faster.

We have a dedicated bone yard for this purpose, but you can do it just about anywhere.

Yep, just think of it as 'recycling'. They are gone very quickly on my property. Buzzards eat them all day, Coyotes take over at night.

I have a Mexican woman that will make tamales on the halves if I bring her a quartered hog in a cooler.

Other than that I barbecue the young ones and drag off the big ones.

I like to take the leg quarters and leave the rest for the vultures etc, they make very short work of them. Leg quarters go into the meat grinder and become groundhog burgers.

I drag them to an open area so varmints and buzzards can get to them. It doesn’t take long.

depending on where in hill country you are it's often a pretty quick reclamation by nature.

in my area of NW hill country its not uncommon for >70# carcasses to be totally cleaned up in less than 72hours. Larger ones tend to not be touched until they're well into decaying unless they're split. The bigger ones I peel the front shoulder and ham off on one side. It takes less than 2 minutes with a cheap $10 hardware store knife and it's faster with good equipment. If they're split they tend to get stripped down to bones and flat stiff hides pieces within a week in warmer months.

I've stacked a couple hundred in one small back corner this year for one landowner and they get reduced and scattered pretty well by scavengers. More so birds than coyotes in my area. I had a camera on the pile for well over a month and never caught a coyote on camera. skunks, opossum, all manner of carrion birds but no coyotes.

Coyotes will have them cleaned up in no time.

Between the Coyotes and the Buzzards they are usually gone within a day or two. Heck we got a bone yard at the far end of the farm where we dump the cattle that don't make it. Hogs and buzzards will strip a whole cow, except for some of the hide, in less than a week.

I appreciate the replies, just wanted to make sure I wasn't being an azzhole for leaving them out for the scrappers.

Yep, I was kind of same way early and unsure what to do with them. I started dragging them back to a bone pile and not uncommon to see dozens of scavenger birds on them within a day or so. Most are completely gone within a week, but lots of bones lying in the vicinity. For a couple of really big ones I've had to let them lay where they died and some take a bit longer to get scavenged due to their size, but even those don't last more than 10 days or so.

Check with one of the local churches to see if they have members who would come get them.

Yeah, they'll come and get them IF you've already skinned, quartered and put it on ice. Otherwise (in my experience) no one seem interested.

If you county ever has bounties, cut the tails off, and throw em in a bag in the freezer. Ours pays $5/tail...usually cash em all in once every year or every other year....

We had a pig pile in the back corner of the ranch always.

I have found that more dead pigs equals more coyotes in the area. More coyotes means less fawn survival. Manage your place as you see fit, but I stopped killing pigs just to try to thin them out 20 years ago.

flint and I have both had this experience. I even had a guy ask me if I would bag and label the "cuts of meat" (because apparently I am a trained butcher) and put them in his freezer in the barn so that I would not wake him up in the night and bother him with free food. LOL. This was after I said I would gut it for him and bring it to his home, but that just wasn't good enough.

People don't want a dead pig for free as it would be inconvenient and require effort on their part to make it ready for the grill. Apparently, just about everybody "needing" free food needs their beauty rest even more in my experience.

The kids, and many times the ladies, are innocent in this, but the men...

There's a reason that men needing free food need free food.

Shoot them in the lungs so they run away from the feeder.

A high capacity shotgun set up within bow range, put the feeder in a good opening so you can get as many as possible before they run out of the opening.

Cell camera so you know what time to sit. Make the feeder go off only once a day.

save the buzzard foundation is a worthy cause. I use it almost everywhere I hunt. Except of course a few select backstraps for the freezer

Do tell! What is the reason men are needing free, butchered, catered food that they can't be bothered with helping do any of the work, much less be awoken to receive said food?

Fawns are only 'fawns' for a few months (and thus susceptible to predation) but hogs are there year 'round'.

Hogs AND Coyotes are shoot on sight animals on my property and are likely in your area in abundance whether you stack up the hogs or not.

Another way to look at it is.....every Coyote that fills it's belly on hog meat....is probably not out looking for fawns or any other food source.