"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[kuntrygirl]

Hi. You may have seen this already, but I am looking for 8 chickens in the New Orleans area that can be used by an animal talent agency for a movie.  She only needs them for a couple of days. thnx.

I received an email about this about a week ago from my website. I thought that it was a scam, so I didn't reply. Ooops.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Julie, glad all your animals made it through the weather safely. We had tons & tons of rain!!

Thank you.

 

[kuntrygirl]

I had another baby turkey that hatched late last night or early this morning. When I went in to pick eggs and close up the chicken house, I heard the pipping and I knew that it would be soon. This morning when I opened up shop, the little bugger had arrived. I took it from mama and have it in the house now. Mama turkey chose to set up camp in the chicken house on the floor, so I couldn't leave the little one there without being in a protected area. It would have been dead by the time I would have arrived at home. I have some very cruel chickens that will kill anything that moves. It's impossible to move a broody turkey AND duck, so I just let nature take it's course and wish for the best.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

Okay....I have a question for the rest of you Louisiana peeps. We have suddenly had two feral hogs begin appearing on our property over the past couple weeks. One is an absolutely huge monster who we've seen twice (dusk and dawn only) and the other is much smaller, but still a pretty decent sized pig that appeared for the first time an hour ago. We plan on trapping them: Going to get the live trap tomorrow. However, I have a question in the meantime.....

I understand that hogs will kill and eat poultry and small livestock. Have any of you ever had a hog attack your fowl?

I ask this in particular because the hog that showed up today did so in broad daylight just a few yards from my ranging poultry and duck pond. It seemed disinterested and the guineas and geese spent 30 solid minutes yelling at it. Instead, it went in and visited our horse via a board that is broken on the bottom row of her paddock.

Here is today's smaller hog visitor. As you can see the guineas stayed close to keep an eye on it and it didn't bother with them.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Okay....I have a question for the rest of you Louisiana peeps. We have suddenly had two feral hogs begin appearing on our property over the past couple weeks. One is an absolutely huge monster who we've seen twice (dusk and dawn only) and the other is much smaller, but still a pretty decent sized pig that appeared for the first time an hour ago. We plan on trapping them: Going to get the live trap tomorrow. However, I have a question in the meantime.....

I understand that hogs will kill and eat poultry and small livestock. Have any of you ever had a hog attack your fowl?

I ask this in particular because the hog that showed up today did so in broad daylight just a few yards from my ranging poultry and duck pond. It seemed disinterested and the guineas and geese spent 30 solid minutes yelling at it. Instead, it went in and visited our horse via a board that is broken on the bottom row of her paddock.

Here is today's smaller hog visitor. As you can see the guineas stayed close to keep an eye on it and it didn't bother with them.

Thanks for the replies.

WOW !!! I don't know the answer to your question and I hope the replies to come will say that they won't kill and eat your poultry and livestock. I would hate for that to happen. How lucky is that to have your dinner walk onto your property.

 

[La Mike]

Yes they will but usually only in dire circumstances. If theres other feed around they will go for it long before going after live prey. Trapping them shouldnt be too hard as long as your trap is big enough. I have actually only heard of 1 or 2 instances where feral hogs actually killed something for food. Meat is in their diet but they are too lazy in general too try and take live prey. If you have an injured or sick bird thats another story.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

Thanks: I appreciate that. With the amount of acorns and mushrooms on the property guess he shouldn't be too hungry. Guess this also answers the question of what ate my melons last year. I saw the tracks but thought they were deer. After seeing his prints today...I think I found my culprit.

I put out a pile of oats for him and he took a few bites. I stayed far enough away from it that if it decided to run after me...I'd be able to get away (even as slow as I am).

This one is easily only half the size of the other one that comes around: That one knocked a big hole in the fencing on our neighbors pasture last month. After the other one started coming around ordered a live trap...supposed to get it tomorrow. Guess I'll have to bait it and put it out in the woods.

Kind of a shame, this one seemed friendly enough. Although, I wouldn't want to test that theory to much....lol.

 

[kuntrygirl]

Thanks: I appreciate that. With the amount of acorns and mushrooms on the property guess he shouldn't be too hungry. Guess this also answers the question of what ate my melons last year. I saw the tracks but thought they were deer. After seeing his prints today...I think I found my culprit.

I put out a pile of oats for him and he took a few bites. I stayed far enough away from it that if it decided to run after me...I'd be able to get away (even as slow as I am).

This one is easily only half the size of the other one that comes around: That one knocked a big hole in the fencing on our neighbors pasture last month. After the other one started coming around ordered a live trap...supposed to get it tomorrow. Guess I'll have to bait it and put it out in the woods.

Kind of a shame, this one seemed friendly enough. Although, I wouldn't want to test that theory to much....lol.

Yes, please be careful. Please keep us posted!

 

[La Mike]

No that wouldnt be good. They can get very aggressive when cornered or startled. Are you planning on feeding it out to process. If thats the case I would personally just shoot it. Feeding them out requires a very strong containment pen and may not be worth the trouble versus the easier route. Also if and when you do trap it you can be assured its not going to be a happy camper and will bite anything that gets close enough to it. Please use extreme caution when trying to remove it from a trap.

 

[1MrsMagoo]

No we don't want to try and keep it: We are buying some heritage breed piglets later this spring to raise for meat. We want to trap it because the only firearm we right now have is a pellet gun, which wouldn't do us any good (if I'd had a good rifle today I could have dropped it easy). However, the guy my husband works with is one of those western quick draw competitive shooters and has a nice gun collection and is a really good shot. If we trap it, he is going to come shoot it and then the men can haul it off to the processor. We are going to split the meat with him for his help.

Don't worry....I'd never get in between one of these things and its way out (worked around cows for years). My camera has like 16x zoom, so the closest I got was like 20 feet away: If it had been the BIG one I probably wouldn't have even gotten that close. I watched that thing ram its way through the no climb horse fencing in our neighbor's pasture a few weeks back. That is some tough wire, but the pig was tougher.

I put out the oats and backed away about 75 feet before it came to check them out. I really just wanted to see if it liked them: It wasn't all that crazy about them but did eat a few mouthfuls (the ducks and chickens finished them off after it left). I have a page bookmarked with recipes for hog bait. We are going to try a dog food/corn/leftover winter squash mix first. If that doesn't work I'll use one of the stinky ones.

If we are lucky, we will catch this little guy because I suspect he will be much better eating that the other larger one.