Thread: Stuff that I've learned about deer control

Originally Posted by chainsaw

in cases like this with high deer numbers, plenty of scrub and bush surrounds and the cull of hinds that's needed, do you end up with a pig problem after the cull ? Imagine even if you taking the edible meat the paunch plus carcass would make good pickins for the local pigs.

Interesting question.

My mates are pig hunters of the exceedingly committed kind. It's their life. Not interested at all in deer stalking. Only pigs.

So the pigs are "managed" and the carcasses are part of that. Sometimes pasture rooting is a problem but they are onto it like a flash. Saturday was a "pig rark up" with the junior dogs being given the task of chasing medium pigs, suckers and sows out of the paddocks into the bush. Part of their training.

The carcasses are being eaten entirely within 2-3 days. I've just come back from the back block in the lee side of this infernal wind, and all the deer and goat carcasses that were left on clear ground are gone. Just a stain. I shot two young ones this afternoon, they will be gone by Wednesday I expect.

I know who lives up there. I've seen him, and his cohort, several times. He ran down a fenceline no more than 40m from me last week and I got a real good look at him. A proper pig that in due course will be going to war with his canine enemies.