Has anyone heard of this happening? A guy here in the office said that some buddies killed 12 hogs up around aspermont last weekend. 8 of them had fawns in there bellies. If this is indeed taking place we'll be deerless in a couple of years.

Heck! Hog's catch, kill and eat, smaller hogs.

I figure they'd have to be eating them as soon as they hit the ground. Those suckers are hard to catch once they get moving.

Kill all hogs for the yotes than kill all yotes for the buzzards.

The first two weeks of a fawns life is when they are the most vunerable to ALL predators.

In all reality, in Texas right now, the only more effective predator of ALL wildlife than humans are feral hogs.

People really need to start giving some thought about the possibilities of falling out of a treestand or from a tri-pod and end up laying on the ground unconscious and possibly bleeding at or right after dark when hogs are moving around. JMO.

The biggest predator for feral hogs in texas is my dogs But yes i have heard of this happening. As a matter of fact we were running the dogs on a place in kaufman on year and we bayed a group of hogs and about 50 yards from there was a calf that had been streaded by the hogs. And there was another case that a big boar hog in a guys field was milking from a momma cow and ended up killing her . dont know bout that one but i heard it.

At a turkey seminar on Tuesday the instructor said that if a hog finds a turkey nest, it'll eat all the eggs. Hogs are good target practice but they are becoming a wide spreading problem.

They will eat turkey and run them off. In hamilton we went down and always saw atleast 1 group of turkey and never even thought of hogs being there. Well this last trip i took to get my stuff it was 0 turkey and lots of hogs. Just to think i have well trained hog dogs for this and i still have trouble finding new places to hunt and help.

That makes me hate hogs even more. I have heard one thing that the only good thing that a hog will do is eat snakes. That sounds about right we have lots of hogs and have not seen 1 snake on our place in 4 years. But I would rather have rattlers than hogs. They dumped over my 500 lbs feeder some time last month.

I think that worrying about falling out of your tree stand and bleeding and hogs coming and getting you is OVERKILL.If thats the case then I'm done covering up my scent to go hunt hogs. . .
Hogs eating deer and snakes?I've heard of it but I've also heard of black mountain lions and big foot.It just doesn't happen like people think it does.

You believe whatever you want to.

Hogs are quite capable and willing to attack anything they find injured and bleeding, and that includes humans.

It might not happen to you, but the possibility is still there, and all the after thought and everything ain't gonna do the person that becomes a victim any good.

You don't want to consider the possibilities, hey, that is your business.

I for one don't want to be the test case.

Same for chickens. Pick your bones clean.

Remember what happened in "Old Yeller?" Although I think they were Javalinas.

hogs will eat anything, those movie's were you see mobsters use them to get rid of remains or that guy in canada that used them to get rid of hookers he killed is a good example. i've seen two wild one's eating a dog in mexico they were tugging on it like a chew toy. they will eat fawns,calves, and any thing they can over power if it is a easy kill. one rancher told me that the afterbirth will attract them ,it got to the point were he was loosing a lot of calves and he didn't think it was the yote's doing most of the damage. my buddy was going out their and bringing people to take down everyone they saw. now that isn't scientific proof of it,but these things are living breathing trash disposals and rdd (road destroying devices) .and there is no way to successfully contain them from spreading other than taking them out. they do offer one heck of a hunt and people make money off of them,but it's not ever going to be enough to control their populations.

when i was a kid i can barely remember a movie called "razorback" i think. does anyone remember this?

I have no doubt that hogs will eat just about anything, but how in the heck would you know what they had been eating by cutting open their stomachs? They don't swallow their food whole like a snake or fish. As mentioned above, they rip & tear and chew it up. You might find some hair, but how do you know it was from a fawn?

One year we hunted on a place outside of Rocksprings and the rancher told us to shoot every hog we saw. He said they would fall in behind mama goats and their kids and just keep following them until the babies got tired and slowed down. At that point, the hogs would eat them, bones, skeleton and everything attached. Remember the old saying, "Elmo, Bob, or whoever went to take a crap, and the hogs ate him." Never has been truer.

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You can dig through their stomach and find enough info to know.

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Being the Devil's advocate for a second, fawn remains from a hogs stomach does not mean that hog caught/killed that fawn.

Hog could have found the remains of one that died from other causes.

With that said, hogs will eat anything they can find/catch.

Another culprit out there that can and will catch and kill fawns, are larger raccoons.

A Biologist that I know that works up at the Gene Howe WMA outside of Canadian witnessed a coon dragging a freshly killed fawn in one of the areas pastures 2 years back.

A 15 to 20 pound coon can easily kill a new born fawn, or one up to a week old, since those little critters usually try to stay hidden by laying down in some form of cover.

hogs like snakes too..seen one eating a rattler...on lonesome dove of course

I would not doubt it a bit of a hog killing anything. My place is having a major hog problem and for some reason I cannot get all the hunters on our place to shoot them. I went and checked my game camera a few weeks back and had 12 of them bastids feeding under it. I'm gonna have a busy summer.........

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You can dig through their stomach and find enough info to know.

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No thanks. I'll leave that to the vultures.

I think this is an apprpriate time to say. HAVE DOGS WILL TRAVEL( a litttle). LOL

Now i dont hate hogs i think they do some good like.....? Ok maybe not but they are good eating and a VERY fun sport for me to run the dogs and by doing that i may find a cheap place to deer hunt. LOL See it is all a cycle that has yet to pan out.