Pig with Tag in the ear

Shot a pig this past weekend with a tag in it's ear. She was prego to boot.



This little guy fell out at the point of impact



Here is the tag




I've known guys that will catch boars, cut them and release them but I've never seen anyone catch sows and tag them??? This was in Wood County.

That's different.

Dang, that was my son's show pig. We've been looking everywhere for her!

Well now you can quit looking!!!
But if you ask nice I bet Black will invite you over for pork chops

Sure will, i'll even buy the beer

Might be wrong, but isn't it illegal to release anything but cut boars. (Not a P&W regulation, but a TAHC regulation) That sow was probably in a feedlot or something and escaped. That tag might be a fly tag. We used them on calves years ago to keep flies away from their faces in feedlots. It looks kind of old, but might still smell a little "chemically." In any case, good job on getting that breeder out of the gene pool.

Guys that work there hogs cut boars and ear tag sows to keep up with the hurd.they do this all over tx.

I am pretty sure you are correct.

Nice kill

Interesting.

Thats interesting!

Probably a pet. We have raised 2 ferrel hog piglets. They make great pets until they get bred. Then they disappear and go wild. Had a tag in one of ours ear and someone shot her about 3 years after she disappeared.

I used to catch them all the time in west tx with ear tags and gps collars... Texas A&M was doing a study on them

We let our GW know and he was going to come out and pick up the tag.

I bet it was someones pet...

That's just a ztag that rancher write whatever they want on them! There was a hunting ranch that had a hog preserve with some hogs with different color tag on them they said they were bounty hogs! The ranch was in Titus co on sulphur river

Texas Tech did a study on our ranch in Kent county a few years ago and ear tagged about a hundred or so, and radio collared a lot of them as well. Bad thing about it was the batteries went dead on the collars and now they cant recover them. We have found a couple and recovered them, but once released there is no telling where they will end up....

Now I see where bacon bits come from..

Good job!

That's pretty cool

Checked Cameras the other day and we have more with tags

Well now you can start a collection of Pig Tags like the waterfowl hunters do with bands.

Thats interesting, curious if any writing is on the rest of the tags.

Hatfield & MaCoy comes ta mind

Clean the tag off with a wet rag and then hold it up to the sun. Usually, you can see the lettering with the light shining through the tag. Like holding an envelope up to a light.

Had heard it was illegal ta release any hogs people complaining about property damage. Then again theirs loop-holes I use a belt in mine.