Thread: The pigs are getting cheeker

Pig rooting in the foreground and our house in the background (about 200m away). This is a paddock of Plantain and is deer fenced. The little buggers are getting underneath the fence.

Time for a capture trap?

Maybe. My bosses son is supposed to be keeping the pigs under control.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Maybe. My bosses son is supposed to be keeping the pigs under control.

Same thing here but its the neighbours son.... Got them out feeding 50m from a road that has regular traffic on it at 5pm

Electric wire . I've seen big wild pigs shit scared of a hot wire . They hate them

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Yeah. Big job but, considering the boundary. Doesn't bother me much but would like to catch them at it. Bit of a fan of bacon. Might put a camera out first but they seem very mobile. Not in the same place twice.

Originally Posted by Shearer

Yeah. Big job but, considering the boundary. Doesn't bother me much but would like to catch them at it. Bit of a fan of bacon. Might put a camera out first but they seem very mobile. Not in the same place twice.

Bait them in and get them into a pattern perhaps?

Just for kicks you should make a simple trap ...high tensile deer wire in a 9 shape held down with waratahs toss a dead sheep inside for b8 mate
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my pick , it will be a sow with a mob of suckers / weaners in tow. From my limited experince they wise up to hunting pressure quickly as, we went from dogging them to, spotlighting , night vision. everytime you got one or two even three or four but educated the rest...they learnt very fast and pigs up this way breed like flies ..I believe the sows come into season at 7 months old and have good numbers of wee digging machines...so you end up with some well educated mobs.

You have to get after them and keep the acid on them, I had the privilege of being part of a crew that had the pleasure of some private land with pigs coming out onto the property, it started off as hunting and ended as pest control, the damage a couple of small sows with suckers can do to a wet paddock is horrific, and when you hit a mob with dogs or rifles you get one or two the others changed their habits and got harder to hit. We ended up hunting weird hours and taking time off work to get into them mid week, some weeks there would be 3 or 4 then next time would be a dozen, killing suckers is never a pleasure but we were trying to protect the landowners grazing.

Then summer came and they disappeared, we patted ourselves on the back on a job well done, then as soon as the paddocks got wet again , Christ what a mess! 40+ pigs in two months not one over 60 lb.

Is the small ones that do the damage allright. Best method I think is a combination of dogs,guns and trapping. I have seen a trap take 6 in one day less than 24 hours after the area was dogged. The frustrating part is if your neighbor is a forestry block they will just keep coming out to top your numbers up.

Have a very similar issue here got these 200m from my house and 20m from a well used road at 3pm just turning my paddock over

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