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Post by ~ADC~ on Aug 30, 2012 7:30:25 GMT -6
When i was a kid I had an old farmer/trappers tell me that he feeds his coon carcasses to his hogs. It's quite a think to see. Question is, why is this a bad idea?
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Post by bobafett on Aug 30, 2012 8:38:02 GMT -6
I had a litter get out of my pasture a couple years ago during deer season. It was a real eye opener seeing how those little buggers reacted to fresh meat. Definately omnivores!!
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Post by dj on Aug 30, 2012 8:46:22 GMT -6
Ever watch the movie Snatch? Pigs with a taste for meat are no friend of men! Joking aside I would guess that you wouldnt want pigs feeding on brain material/spinal fluids etc (risk of disease transmission?  ) I will agree with you on the quite a thing to see. At the farm we had a barn yard hog call sign "Sly" that somehow developed a taste for cat. We didnt have very many cats at the farm! |
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Post by dj on Aug 30, 2012 10:01:32 GMT -6
I had an idea pop into my head while typing a report on the computer just now. Parasites might be a good reason why a person wouldnt want to toss carcasses into a pig pen.
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Post by Scott W. on Aug 30, 2012 11:03:02 GMT -6
Good point dj.
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Post by ~ADC~ on Aug 30, 2012 11:05:20 GMT -6
I had an idea pop into my head while typing a report on the computer just now. Parasites might be a good reason why a person wouldnt want to toss carcasses into a pig pen.  ~ADC~ |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2012 11:21:20 GMT -6
Someone was telling me they don't mind cats or coons that get stuck in the hog poo at their farm....
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Post by justwannano on Aug 30, 2012 16:15:33 GMT -6
I keep hearing--cough cough- about some farmers who in fertilizing their land feed dead baby pigs to eagles.Well actually its just because the eagles are mostly the ones flying around looking for carrion. And thats probably because they are tired of etin fish.
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Post by bradphillips on Aug 30, 2012 16:36:17 GMT -6
I worked in a big confinement for awhile. Two buildings of 1500 each, crazy animals for sure. They get curious and start to bark at you when you enter the building. If one went down during the night the next day there would be a partial hog skin (called 'em seat covers) and a partial skull. They couldn't get enough of the skull in their mouth to crack it, so they just played hockey with it.
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Post by robertw on Aug 30, 2012 17:50:30 GMT -6
Feeding carcasses to hogs and parasite transmission is not an issue when you treat those hogs reguarly with Ivomec.
Hogs absolutely love beaver carcasses, bobcats and muskrats!! Otter and mink tend to go un-touched if they have better stuff to eat but they will eat them as well, same with coyote and fox carcasses.
Another cheap feed for hogs later in the fall is all of the left over pumpkins from the fall decoration, they LOVE them.
Funny thing though, can not get hogs to eat turnips.
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Post by 4fur on Aug 30, 2012 18:03:32 GMT -6
Used to feed a lot of bounty beaver to sows and it was a gruesome show, but pretty cool. I know the reason I quit was it occurred to me those big blood thirsty hogs that were reducing a 60# beaver to a short piece of backbone and the tail would probably do the same to my Dad or brother if they had an accident in the hog lot.
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Post by big al on Aug 30, 2012 18:43:58 GMT -6
A few years back there was a guy that had a heart attack while he was in with his hogs and he didn't make it out alive or in very good shape.
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Post by justwannano on Aug 30, 2012 18:49:54 GMT -6
Gee Al. When I saw you contributed to this thread I thought maybe you were gonna tell everyone where the guy feeds baby pigs to eagles. lol
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Post by robertw on Aug 30, 2012 20:11:57 GMT -6
BTW,
The hog lots end up with a lot of beaver skulls laying around.
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Post by dj on Aug 31, 2012 7:05:53 GMT -6
Good information! I havent been a member of this site for very long but I like everyones style! Adios
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Post by rjvr on Sept 1, 2012 8:37:49 GMT -6
Chickens will make quick work of a muskrat carcass. Within an hour, it's just a skeleton and tail. Good source of protein and tends to increase egg production.
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Post by robertw on Sept 1, 2012 11:19:49 GMT -6
What realy kind of surprised me was the hogs love whole coon carcasses but when saving coon meat and just dumping tubs of coon guts in the hog lot they didn't much go for them. They like meat and eat the guts then but not just the guts by themselves.
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Post by Austin K on Sept 1, 2012 19:01:37 GMT -6
iv been a local helper for ALLOT of hog farmers in Bremer County and darn near grew up on a hog farm with my dad, and i have seen some pretty crazy stuff and had a few close calls and i would NEVER give a pig a chance to taste blood because when they get used to it and start to like it, who knows what them hogs will do......
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Post by robertw on Sept 1, 2012 20:45:15 GMT -6
Even BAD domestic hogs are tame compared to how predatory feral hogs are. I've lost 6-7 coons, couple of opposum and even a bobcat in traps to feral hogs in the south.
Kind of off subject but feral hogs are a real game changer in wildlife management.
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Post by Austin K on Sept 2, 2012 9:26:20 GMT -6
Even BAD domestic hogs are tame compared to how predatory feral hogs are. I've lost 6-7 coons, couple of opposum and even a bobcat in traps to feral hogs in the south. Kind of off subject but feral hogs are a real game changer in wildlife management. thats why we need to kill them all!!!  |
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Post by tjk on Sept 2, 2012 10:44:25 GMT -6
Hogs must be nasty. I didn't think anything would eat a possum.
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) I will agree with you on the quite a thing to see. At the farm we had a barn yard hog call sign "Sly" that somehow developed a taste for cat. We didnt have very many cats at the farm! 
