Weekend trapping pics

[Gus]

Caught this little guy by himself


In another trap was mom, 8 itty bitty pigs and 2 bigger pigs


Here's the pigs in a bucket


And my sister with her new friend

[Norm Sauceman]

I see you caught a Gal with that beer too. That's always good bait!! ROFL!!!

[jerdanmagic]

so what did you do with those tender lil piggies?

[RyanH]

Thats very cool! Nice pics!

[Gus]

That is my sister, I wish I could get rid of her sometimes . All the pigs went into our holding pen. Right now there is 15 hogs/pigs in there, and only 2 big enough to sell.

[dodge4x4]

nice pics man

[texastrophies]

Happy Birthday

[Jeramie]

Looks like a handful! Nice....

[Gus]

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Ok I'm ignorant! Clue me in.

So these things are wild and you can just trap them and keep them? Sell them?

Do you actually raise them tiny ones?

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Yes, they are wild/feral hogs and they can destroy anything they want. Tear up the fields you plant, the fences around the property, and flip feeders upside down if you don't have them tied/staked down.

They are very smart critters and harder to catch in a trap than most people think. You don't just sit a trap up and expect to catch a hog/hogs in the trap overnight.

Here in TX the only legal place to sell them is what we call a buying station who is buying the hogs for a company that butchers them and ships the meat overseas. Actually after you catch one if you are going to transport it somewhere else and turn it loose the legal way of doing it is to have a vet bleed the hogs for both brucellosis and psuedorabies and have the tests come back negative before releasing the hogs again.

[Gus]

If they weigh 150#+ we can make a little money, but the smaller ones like we catch don't make much. One of these days we will catch some of the bigger ones and make some money.

[Norm Sauceman]

I need 6 boars ASAP that are no less than #200 each and have decent teeth.

[Hoyt03]

Is that bucket full of live little piggies, or they dead? Cool pics

[Gus]

Well norm, right now none of the hogs we have fit your order, sorry

The piggies in the bucket are alive and they are now in another pen with their mom and some other hogs.

[Norm Sauceman]

When ever then, just let me know..ANYONE...Thanks folks.

[Shaun_300]

great pics Gus!