Controlling wild hogs

anti personnel mines work pretty good, but you have to post signs that the pigs cannot read

LSU doing some work on this currently

LSU Ag Center hog bait

They do big time economic damage to crops. Didn't read anywhere about possible effects on Black Bear that may get into the bait

From what I’ve read raccoons are very sensitive to sodium nitrite,more so than pigs,deer are also sensitive but less so than pigs.Due to the gluttonous nature of bears I would imagine they would also be harmed by it .
Therefore the problem of a delivery system that would exclude animals besides pigs.The bait described in the article would not be attractive to deer ,it doesn’t sound like that would be a problem.
Keeping it from raccoons and bears will be problematic.

People get apoplectic at the term poison.Sodium nitrite is very safe,there is no residual accumulation in the muscles.It is metabolized by the digestive system,if the pig eats enough the red blood cells can’t carry enough oxygen and the pig dies.If they don’t eat a lethal dose they recover without any harmful effects.Any scavenger animals that eat the meat of dead pigs aren’t harmed unlike other poisons such as Timic.

There is no way to poison JUST hogs.....no way!

Genetics is the only way which is also very difficult and expensive....

Hogs and Coyotes are here stay, unfortnuately.

Here we go...this thread will get interesting.

The amount of sodium nitrite used to kill hogs is extremely low compared to what the FDA allows in food for human consumption. Studies have shown that lethal doses to hogs will not kill vultures because it is neutralized quickly by enzymatic activity.

Yes, there are some potential impacts to wildlife like deer and raccoons. That is why the delivery system is important. If it can be delivered in a way that limits non-target impacts, this can be a huge game-changer in the fight against feral hogs. But that's a big "IF".

Auburn and Mississippi State are in race to release a hog only poison that should be up and available next year

Btw the way, that river flooding few years back took out 100k of them, almost enough to help

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Yep. Put a bounty on them. Problem solved.

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Like they do nutria? Beavers?

How’s that working?

Bounties usually work opposite of the way they are intended. If I can get $5 a tail for a nutria, beaver, or hog why would I want to kill every one of them? I can kill some of them and make money and leave enough for seed to keep making money. Or I could catch the hog and cut the tail off make my money and let it go to make more pigs that I can make money off of

I have been to the hog research facilities in Kerrville and Idlewild. I’ve spoken to the lead biologist and seen the work at bait design and delivery systems.

You can bet they are way ahead of the game at point than anyone of us. There are so many uneducated opinions that it takes time and understanding to truly grasp the problem and it’s proposed solutions.

Hunting will never gain ground on the population.

It’s obvious you have put more thought into this than I do not doubt your grasp of the situation. I just figured having hunters go after them in a concerted effort would seriously deplete the numbers, and the only way to do that would be to reward them handsomely. Kinda like crawfishermen. I realize hogs reproduce far too rapidly to eliminate all of them. The gestation is too short and they start breeding too early.
I did not consider people wanting to conserve them for continuous income. I was thinking more of the greed and killing all they could. Even going out after work to see if they could knock off a few.