EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

we r getting together a bay pen that w e hope to have up and running before next year.  We have ac facilities childrens play areas etc....
we r looking for some feed back about what you guys like and dont like, want dont want, anybody that is knowledable and would like to lend some advice would be great anybody that would like to help out on the labor end would be great too.  We went to hamilton texas today and bought all of our panels and wire to get the pen and working pens set up.  we were hoping dec 8 for the first bay but i broke my leg playing wild boar poker got hit on the side and shattered my knee and tibia had to put some screws plates and someone elses bone in me.  This is a sport that i love its in my blood and in my heart.  we are a family operated organization as a family first agenda.  so any info at all that anyone has or if you wanna come take a look at what were doing let me know i hope to get a lot of feed back on this, once again this bay pen will be opening were not thinking about it or looking at doing it its coming  very soon HOPe to hear from everyone

Cody Fritz
Boars nest hog hunting
boarsnest@centurylink.net
903 805 0935

Hey Cody! How's the leg?

its alright just healing up i had to have about 6 inches of bone replaced that was shattered some screws and plates and they put me back together though. thank you for checking. 8 bALL is doing great still working with him on the difference between catching and nipping to stop but hes very smart and learning fast great dog.  any suggestions for us i would appreciate you to email them to me

thank you
mr. moffitt
god bless

Glad you are on the mend and that 8ball is doing good for you.

Glad to hear about another pen opening up in Texas. I use to love the competitions. Maybe I'll get back into them next year. They are a great way to learn about hogs and dogs and a chance to meet some wonderful people.
For a good turn out I would suggest trying to set it on a weekend that will not conflict with other Texas pens or at least not with the pens that are nearest to you. Try and get/keep large hogs in your pen. I know it's tough but if you can keep them around the 200-250lb mark your going to get your best results (with your runs and in turn out). As far as judging goes, I think a two man system is a minnimum but three is better (drop high and low or just take aggregate). Make sure judges are knowledgable and consistant. The worse thing that can happen is to have your judges labeled (home pen judges, play favorites, etc.). Give a fair cut on the prize money. Offer a 100% payback on Calcutta. Provide concessions. Do all that and you should be in great shape. I'll check it out in December!

Cody, You from Brownsboro?

no sir im from emory, i met my wife lacey in tyler and this is where me and all our family live. 

I'm excited to have a pen close by.  Will give me something to do
(dogwise) during deer season!

It would help you to not have it on 2nd weekend. cause village mills is that weekend and yall will be splitting alot of your competitors. Not telling you how or what to do. just somthing to think about just kinda common courtisy to not schedule on an exsisting pens weekend. But all the same hope yall do well looks like a good spot.

thank you for the advice we r planning to schedule r bays around other pens close tlo our area including village mills callaways and tripn r wich r all great pens that i hope we have as good a reputation as theyhave developed.  im not positive on nothing but that the pen is coming up and were shooting for our first bay in december

I would like to say again that the bigger your hogs are (up to about 250lbs) the better off you will be. You'll have less catch outs and that is a GOOD thing. Maybe you can get some donations from hunters or possibly even another pen. I know when I ran in the competitions the owners of pens would travel to other pens to compete. I'm sure they would like your pen to be nice as well.

All our hogs at our bay will be over 250 or there at.  We have arranged our hogs that was our first priority before we started construction to make sure we had good sorted and seperated hogs that would run just about equal so everythings fare.  Our hogs will be coming from phillip swallows with hogs gone wild winona texas.  autry boyd and his wife i hope i spelled that right i believe r going to be helping use choose and sort hogs, and his wife i believer is going to help with our judging

Glad its goin to be close enought to go to. Havent been to any bay outs yet but we are excited to go to some. Got one that is goin to need a big tough pig. So sounds like this will be a place to bring my best. I will be talking to some of my puppy clients and see if they can bring some dogs. What days are yall looking at to work on the pens. We are open to Sundays or Mondays. Hope to meet you there mr.moffitt. By the way i still havent gotten to deal with Langford. 
Are y'all going to have ladys only??

i would like to schedule a short meeting on sunday afternoon well coffee and cold drinks to show everybody in the area and just anyone that could make it what we r doing and get some feedbak if u plan on coming to the meeting please rsvpwith me if you can you can call or email or just reply on here 903 805 0935 boarsnest@centurylink.net we look forward to seeing everyone that can make it if you plan on volunteering or just giving some helpful input please try to make it or give a shout

thanks everybody
cody
and lacey

for anyone who was going to attend the meeting tomorrow for the new baypen to open in tyler we r rescheduling the meeting for next weekend my wife , lacey, her mother passed last night so we wil be concerned with that all weekend any prayers that could come her way i know she would appreciate once again sorry such short notice. we look forward to seeing everyone next weekend

we r going to try to have our meeting tomorrow afternoon if u need directions please call or email me at boarsnest@centurylink.net or call me at 903 805 0935

the meeting will be at three

I am sorry for the confusion everybody i didnt have my head on straight this morning, the meeting will be at two o clock tomorrow on hwy 271 next to coker tractor there is a digital sign streaming about the meeting shouldnt be too hard to find but if you have any trouble please give us a call 903 805 0935

i just wanted to tell everybody thank you for coming out yesterday we got alot figured out that we were on the fence about.  I look forward to working with everyone thats going to be helping out and we greatly appreciate it, seeing people come together is what i think this all about so once again thanks everybody.

cody fritz

Hey when do y'all think you will have the first bay?

we r shooting for december the 8th

Saw your sign today on Hwy 271.  Where will the bay pen be? 

behind the buildings up front there is 9 acres we r working parking and pen down there and up top will be remodeled for an inside area with live feed from the bay, conessions, playground, relaxing area with a band stand for bands from time to time, we still have  a long way to go and a short time to get there anyone that would be interested in helping we r going to be working out there this saturday at noon till whenever, weve got alot of brush and the pen area cleared this week some more of our panels welded and step by step were gonna get there

we have gotten almost all the brush cleared turned and flatened the spot for the actual bay pen, we put the last panel on about an hour ago, and have a 2500sq ft. bay pen, the pen is made of corrall panel with hog wire welded to it and then 3/4" plywood bolted to that its finally looking like were getting somewhere, monday were gonna start getting the shoots and holding pens built, and hopefully be done with that in a week, anyone that wants to come out and take a look or help out wed be glad to have you.

Glad to hear it's coming along! Keep us posted

everyone will be just as glad as i am to know that the buildings in the front were shut down as of this morning signs being removed and boars nest bay pen signs being put up were getting really close were working out there everyday from sun up to sundown were putting literally everything we got into this for a top of the line bay and practice facility thank you guys once again for all your guys support we couldnt do it without everybody, and we r still open to having anybody that wants to come get some dirt under your nails come on we got something for you to do.

If I could pawn my rugrats off on someone I'd sure come and help!  I'd much rather perform physical labor than change diapers haha

I can not wait! It will be nice to have a bay pen close to home!

im glad everyone is just as excited as we r we started getting hogs yesterday nothing at this bay under 250lbs if you wanna come out bring the kids theres an ac building for em

Are these competitions or just training? Sorry, I'm out of the loop.

If its a comp, when is the next date?

our first comp bay will be dec 8th i will be offering pen time and training by appt if you just give me a call whenever you wanna work a dog well schedule a time for anyone to do it not sure what the rates will be yet on the training and just generally running dogs out there outside the comps but i will offer it after out first bay,

Was planning on coming out but the Texas State Championship is  Dec. 8th. Still plan on having the first one on the 8th?

well we just saw that the texas state bay was the 8th same as our opening day i really hate that this happened but i have already done the advetising if i could get the word out i would push it forward one more week, i know that there r only so many saturdays in each month and i figured this would happen eventually i was just hoping not our first bay i apologize in advance for everyone who cant make it to our first one and hope to see you guys at the second one, and a little more carful planning on my part so everyone can come that wants to enjoy the great sport kevinN i hope to see you at our second one, i for one would love to be at the texas state bay bayn my dogs but i will be working the pen in tyler good luck to everyone there and for everyone coming to tyler get ready for some fun

Vilage Mills has had a Texas State Championship the second weekend in December as long as there has been a Village Mills Bay Pen.  I won the Texas State Championship Dec. 2008 with my dog Ike before I owned Village Mills.  We've always bayed the second Saturday.  Also, expected to see you at our last baying Oct. 13.  Would love to compete at your bayings but if you are on the second weekend, I cannot be there.

we are going to get it worked out were this doesnt happen again richard i didnt make the last baying because of work on the pen here and dealing with my leg still im moving pretty good now though, im sorry this happened once again we will make sure it doesnt happen again, im still looking into trying to move it and if its possible on such short notice give me a few more days to get it worked out,

Me and 3 others will be there. But we won't be IN the competition.

im glad to hear that why wont you be in any events r u guys souly woods hunters

Curious if Dec. 8 is still on the table? In Dallas and excited about having something close!

yes we r still dec 8th for our first bay but after that we r rescheduling to better suit everything once again sorry for the scheduling of the first bay

Yeah and dogs are to gritty. I my try my Mt. Cur though. We'll see.

Had heard on Facebook you were moving the bay back a week?

So when is the dates for the bay in December? 8th or the 15th?

I've heard Dec 8th and Dec 15th. Can you confirm the date?  Looking forward to the bay whick ever date it is.

I think I'm gonna bring a couple pups as well. Let us know when you can.

Bringing 2 to 4 puppies for the bay. Depending on how many I actually bring, I may have a single. If anyone else has a single that their running and would like to run them together just give me a call. Pups will run together but be scored separately. At least that's how it usually works.

Kevin
817-300-3241

kevin holla at me if ya going for sure and i'll meet ya there . might bring a dog or two if you'll promise to help me peal them off a hog   lol . hows ya bluetick doing , tried to call you that day and a few others . you pull my thang and loose your phone  .? huh just re-read my post pull my thang , sounds kinda brokeback mnt.  lol

Haha that's what I was thinking when i read that Mr. Whitten! lol I'm only kiddin

Talked with Paul yesterday and he confirmed Dec 15th. for the bay.  Sounds like they are putting together a real nice baypen.  Can't wait to see all of ya'll there.

Ill be there for sure. You know me brother, I'd be glad to be your second. Maybe we can do an old and young run as well. "Preacher" is about 10 weeks or so now I guess. DAMN good lookin pup (thank you Lance). He's got a bawl on him already, lol. If my old lady wouldn't kill me I'd probably pawn him off on you and let you turn him into a coon/squirrel dog. Don't know if I can handle that bawl all the time, lol. She's got it in her mind to turn him into a house dog now, lol. I guess that's fine by me, I'll just let him cover a gyp or two later on.

 i'll holla at ya before the bay , hell when he gets old enough we'll breed him to my blue tick gyp . i'll loan ya one of my traps you can catch you a coon and at least mess with the dog in the yard  lol . way the world is going every dog gonna have to learn to earn it's keep lol .

our first baying will be December 15th books open at 9 and bayn starts at 10 sharp were looking forward to puttin some faces with some names, should be a good turn out we will be giving away door prizes and a two hole diamond plate dog box, appreciate everybodys support thanks to all hog doggers

God willin and the creek don't rise will be there for sure!!  Is there a schedule of events and entry fees?

Good Question!

How much are the classes gonna run? You got a flyer that we can get circulated around?

Glad ya rescheduled this will be literally the first bay since earls that has fell on my days off. Yal planning on goin spence

i have flyers that have been going around a couple months now ill get one posted on here tomorrow im glad all you guys r interested in this we appreciate all the support were getting from everybody

Yea hippie! We plan on trying to go, but not 100% sure yet. We stopped by the pen this morning after we got done shopping. It's gonna be reallly nice, and can't wait for the bay comp.

Send me one to my email, and i will make copies and pass it around for ya.
simsspenc@hotmail.com

Never been to one of these before, I don't have drill this weekend and my try to make it down and might bring my current pups and maybe a new one I am picking up this weekend.

Could someone send me the flyer to ciaratx@yahoo.com
I have two pups that I would like to see how they do and my buddy has a handful of pups as well as 3 finished dogs.

How bout posting it here. That would be nice. Directions too maybe.  Looking forward to it.

yes im about to post it all again sorry about not getting it up here asap but here it is under boars nest bay pen flyer new topic