bigbendmarine
5 year old buck +
Have shared a few hog camera captures in the past but before this year sightings they were somewhat random, though rooting in my fields spoke to numbers increasing each of the past three years.
This summer the random sightings turned into regular sightings after a hampshire (striped sow) gave birth to 8 piglets in one sounder, and then a second sounder showed up as the sow piglets in the first reached sexual maturity and went into heat.
Feeling a bit panicked about making a dent in the population I setup a corral trap a few weeks ago, but instead of using a rooting stick to trigger the trap I decided to run a line relatively close to my house so that I could manually drop the guillotine door when the majority of a sounder went in. Jerry rig for sure, but I tested it multiple times and it never failed so I decided to give it a try.
View of line running from the pen to my boat where I anchored the line.
This summer the random sightings turned into regular sightings after a hampshire (striped sow) gave birth to 8 piglets in one sounder, and then a second sounder showed up as the sow piglets in the first reached sexual maturity and went into heat.
Feeling a bit panicked about making a dent in the population I setup a corral trap a few weeks ago, but instead of using a rooting stick to trigger the trap I decided to run a line relatively close to my house so that I could manually drop the guillotine door when the majority of a sounder went in. Jerry rig for sure, but I tested it multiple times and it never failed so I decided to give it a try.
View of line running from the pen to my boat where I anchored the line.