Some Oklahoma Hogs

[skeeter@ccia.com]

Hogs..that is what my friend and I would like to hunt one day. I guess here in W.Pa we can be lucky they aren't here ..yet.. I guess in the south part of pa they had problems with them and stopped the hunting of them so they can trap and remove. I know they dig up ground and maybe destroy food crops but what do they do the deer population? Do they kill fawns? We have a big problem here with the coyotes..I hear them every morning down by the turkey roost trees...other day I counted 39 turkey with 5 long beards..they pass each morning past my window and every evening back to the roost..now they can dig up a yard scratchin for the corn and feed..but ..so far ..no pigs...well with hooves anyhow..as I had to pick up some trash left behind this past week by one...oink oink

[Okie Hog]

I know they dig up ground and maybe destroy food crops but what do they do the deer population?

In parts of SW Oklahoma the deer herd has been hurt by the presence of all these hogs. i've seen hogs run deer out of the wheat fields and off game plots. In a year when mast is scarce it is the hogs that are least impacted. Hogs root up prime deer grazing land and cause a lot of soil erosion.

Do they kill fawns?

i suspect that they do. The coyote population here has been steady for many years. In those areas that are infested with hogs the number of fawns raised to maturity has gone down. One of our places had no hogs until 2006. Now there are hogs all over the place. Dozens of hogs now roam through that 80 acres and a lot of them call that place home.

The PA game commission made a very big mistake when they stopped hunters from killing hogs. Trapping hogs does not work when it is used as the only hog management tool.