I agreed with them fellers up there. You don't want them. I have 500 acres here in E. Texas and they can absolutely destroy a beautiful hay meadow overnight. They also destroy my cow pastures, since most of my property is virgin hardwood timber, I need those pastures for my livestock, as I don't want to cut anymore trees down to make pasture, I love my woods. That is why I go out of my way to hunt them down and eradicate them. Yes, it is fun but it is also costly having them here. I still have natural predators on my property and that helps. The cougars and wolves that live here help me to keep the population in check. One reason I don't kill predators. My neighbors ranches are in really bad shape due to pigs, and due to the fact they take every opportunity to kill a wolf or a cougar, they now have nothing to eat the pigs. I have killed 40 or 50 this year and can't even seem to dent the population. The sad thing is they harm the natural population of deer and other animals. I found probably 10 fawns this year that had been torn to pieces by hogs. Their mothers hid them and ran away when the hogs showed up, and unfortunately the fawns were discovered and mutilated, and I know it was hogs because I saw it happen on three of the occasions. I could not get there fast enough to stop it. Biggie, you are welcome to mine, if I could send them to you I surely would. I'll be honest here in saying that I kill so many I run out of things to do with them. Everyone has them, so nobody wants the ones you kill. My freezer is full of hog and other things so I can't take in anymore. What do you do?? I have to leave them in the field, which goes against the very core of my being, the core of all I believe, to kill somthing and not make use of it. I wish there was another solution. Maybe when I am in the country long enough I will organize a tradgang hog bash. But do to my hectic schedule and being out of country with my job I simply have to do what I can when I can to preserve my property in its most natural state.
-Hillbilly