New Hog bait

[mcbammer]

     https://www.agdaily.com/news/louisiana-state-university-patents-milestone-feral-hog-bait/

     

[Ranger99]

That'd be good if it worked
For whatever reason, out of the
dozens of people I know that try
to take feral hogs, there's maybe
3 that are actually serious enough
about it, and try hard to eliminate
the ones that they're able to.
The rest just look at it like a game
of sorts, and use swine as an excuse
to buy all kinds of firearms and toys.
Same thing with the coons and possums
and foxes,  etc. that damage gardens
and livestock and structures

[mcbammer]

That'd be good if it worked
For whatever reason, out of the
dozens of people I know that try
to take feral hogs, there's maybe
3 that are actually serious enough
about it, and try hard to eliminate
the ones that they're able to.
The rest just look at it like a game
of sorts, and use swine as an excuse
to buy all kinds of firearms and toys.
Same thing with the coons and possums
and foxes,  etc. that damage gardens
and livestock and structures

I  never been a fan of poison because it usually kills some non target species with it .  There is always unintended consequences.  And there are those like you say that dont wont to eliminate  hogs  .

[ironglow]

  Will this leave plenty of  arcases around to fund and bury..or what else can they do with them?

[Dee]

Coyotes and buzzards will clean'em up.

[moamonkey]

Hmm…can’t see anything going wrong there. Don’t like using poison, hard to control. So what happens to the predators that eat the poisoned hogs? I’m sure some you might hope would meet the same end. Best to monitor that method carefully.

[Ranger99]

Can't be any worse than some
A neighbor and his son would take chunks of
meat and put trotline hooks and/or plastic
toothpicks in the middle
Got to where they couldn't find the capsules
for their M44's

[Lloyd Smale]

i agree. birds bear or any meat eater will eat them and die.. what will happen the first time some young kids stumble across one and eats it. i doubt they will ever be eradicated but for now shooting the or trapping them and then killing them is still the best option to keep the population down. what gets me is famers and ranchers that bitch about them but wont let people go on their land and shoot them. its no different then up here where farmers have to get people to come on their land and do crop damage deer killing. i myself have probably shot 200 of them. mostly does and for every female you kill you kill generations of off spring. they dont have to open their fields to anyone. they choose who they allow to do it. we missed the last two seasons because both of us had surgerys. talked to the fam the other day and they told us the population has already doubled since we havent been there and pigs breed and produce little ones much faster then deer

[DDZ]

More on Sodium Nitrate.  Looks like Sodium Nitrate breaks down quickly, and won't harm anything else that eats a dead hog.  Sodium Nitrate is a common product in curing meats. 

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/feral-swine-bait.pdf

https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/researchers-develop-poison-bait-feral-pigs/

[Dee]

More on Sodium Nitrate.  Looks like Sodium Nitrate breaks down quickly, and won't harm anything else that eats a dead hog.  Sodium Nitrate is a common product in curing meats. 

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/wildlife_damage/feral-swine-bait.pdf

https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/researchers-develop-poison-bait-feral-pigs/

Sounds like a good idea then.

[Land_Owner]

...there is NOTHING wrong with the "old ways" of luring them in with sour corn, or sugar, molasses, and Kool Aid, and keeping them around while fattening them just a little from a suspended barrel slinging whole kernel corn.  Pigs shot DRT, never knowing what hit them, have none of that "primordial adrenaline soup" in their muscle tissue that makes meat taste gamey.  DRT hogs, with just a little corn fat in them, are the best tasting pork with so little invested.  There is a lot of trigger time in hogs...