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Hogs have disappeared...Why?
#6519586
10/31/16 03:09 PM
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I have been feeding year round, fresh corn and on occasion a concoction of soured corn. I'm the only one who hunts the place. As of last week, no hogs are coming to the feeder!
Any idea where they have gone or what the heck is going on???
Last edited by Team Stone; 10/31/16 03:10 PM.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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#6519637
10/31/16 03:30 PM
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PappyG1
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Good crop of acorns nearby may be your problem. Happens in our area this time of year.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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10/31/16 03:38 PM
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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10/31/16 03:55 PM
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Sirrah243
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Have you noticed that the hogs move out after a significant rain? It seems when the ground is wet that they venture out. They'll be back.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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#6519726
10/31/16 04:07 PM
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Double Naught Spy
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Vegas. Hogs frequently go to Vegas this time of year. As noted, this is the time of year when the mast starts really hitting the ground. I tend to have corn pile up under my feeders during this period and often lose a lot of my hogs (often all of them) and many of my deer. Or, I get pictures of the hogs or deer on my game cameras, but they aren't under the feeders. If I am watching the feeders, I will often see them just pass through the area. Maybe they stop for a quick nibble (literally one or two sample bites of corn) or maybe they just casually walk through the feeder area on their way to somewhere else.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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10/31/16 04:37 PM
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Agree, that it is most likely due to the mast crop. Much easier for hogs (and deer) to quickly pick up a belly full of acorns than to do the same with corn. I believe they find acorns more palatable than corn as well. If you have White Oaks on your property or nearby, that's where they are.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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#6519916
10/31/16 05:38 PM
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Hogs being gone is a good thing..
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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#6519921
10/31/16 05:42 PM
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lots to eat... deer are doing the same
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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#6520010
10/31/16 06:33 PM
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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10/31/16 06:59 PM
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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#6520120
10/31/16 07:50 PM
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Acorns are dropping my friend. They going nuts. Literally.... They'll be back!
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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10/31/16 08:07 PM
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Yes - all of my deer and hogs have disappeared in the last 2 weeks (although I think one nice deer was hit by a car from what i understand).
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/01/16 12:11 AM
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I've got the deer, but my hogs have wandered off to somewhere. Just one stinky boar showing up on camera lately. I'm sure it's the acorns that have them occupied somewhere else, but I don't know where the acorns are.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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#6520697
11/01/16 01:03 AM
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Saturday morning before day light when I went to go let May Bell out on the back deck I ended up having a couple of minutes conversation with a buck chowing down on seeds at the bird feeders. They're funny critters. Least ways he wasn't eating what's left of my grape vines.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/01/16 02:18 AM
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Yeah, it seems the hogs will walk right over corn to get to acorns.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/01/16 06:41 PM
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I have been feeding year round, fresh corn and on occasion a concoction of soured corn. I'm the only one who hunts the place. As of last week, no hogs are coming to the feeder!
Any idea where they have gone or what the heck is going on??? They have gone to my place.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/01/16 07:26 PM
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I found 24 of them.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/01/16 07:32 PM
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Herbie Hancock
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I found 24 of them. I see walking tamales!
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/02/16 12:35 AM
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they all went to saint jo texas. dang things are everywhere.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/02/16 01:00 AM
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mikei
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they all went to saint jo texas. dang things are everywhere. Please keep them, Jim! We don't need any around this part of CenTex!!
Last edited by mikei; 11/02/16 01:02 AM.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/02/16 01:03 AM
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Those are good smoking size!
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/02/16 01:32 AM
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Squirrel and deer have vacated my back yard feeder for the past 4 weeks. Normally there are 8 squirrel and 6 or more deer that would visit every day. Know the squirrel are still in the area from all the chattering they do. Acorns are dropping and guess they are sick of a full summer of easy corn. The past 2 days both have started to reappear though. Have no worries those hogs will return. Everything gets a free pass in my back yard. Have never seen a hog back there before but the day one shows up the lead will fly it's way.
He's a perfect stranger like a cross of himself and a fox. He's a feeling arranger and a changer of the ways he talks. He's the unforeseen danger and the keeper of the key to the locks.
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/02/16 01:06 PM
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/02/16 02:18 PM
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Re: Hogs have disappeared...Why?
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11/02/16 05:30 PM
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they all went to saint jo texas. dang things are everywhere. Please keep them, Jim! We don't need any around this part of CenTex!! Saint Jo is where my Daddy was born!
Teach a kid how to hunt and fish and you feed him for life...
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