|
Title: old hogs Post by: jwdeltx on January 30, 2015, 10:06:12 pm I was reading a article from TPWL about hogs , they stated hogs only lived six to eight years. I have trapped and caught hogs that I think had to be well over ten years old. How old of a hog do you think you have caught or seen ?
Title: Re: old hogs Post by: hillbilly on January 31, 2015, 10:51:08 am 10 to 15
Title: Re: old hogs Post by: charles on January 31, 2015, 11:43:31 am iv been wondering the same as to how long feral hogs would live.
hillbilly, you say 10-15yrs. is that domestic or feral and where did you come to get those figures, personal experience through family/friends raising hogs for slaughter or hog caught and aged using teeth as they do with deer and other wildlife? Title: Re: old hogs Post by: hillbilly on January 31, 2015, 11:42:10 pm Just from what I have heard. Also me and friend caught to Barr's one night in 2012 that was marked back in 2000 or earlier.
Title: Re: old hogs Post by: hoghunter71409 on February 01, 2015, 07:43:03 am I think feral hogs can live 10 or longer, but I would agree that most live 6-8. I guess it depends a lot on the environment that they are living in. To include food sources, number of other hogs and predators, hunting pressure ect.
Title: Re: old hogs Post by: GOODEN on February 01, 2015, 07:59:49 pm I know the barr I just caught has been on camera for the past 6 or 7 years an he's been ever bit of 300# since we've had him on camera. I think he was at least 10.
Title: Re: old hogs Post by: Goose87 on February 02, 2015, 05:29:06 am We caught a boar on the pearl river wma and had an old man with us and caught a real good boar uand after tying him noticed his ear was notched and upon further inspection it was his dad's old mark, he said wait a minute and stood back and said I bet that hog only has one testicle and a scar, sure enough it did, he said that boar got loose from him and his dad as a little shoat when they were cutting some little boars they had caught in a trap about 10 yrs before, pretty interesting to me.....
Title: Re: old hogs Post by: dan on February 02, 2015, 11:19:37 am My good friend kept one around his house that was 13 years old the last time I saw him. His son caught the hog in a 5 gal bucket, and kept him in a large wooded pen for that long. No meds, just a little corn and occasional table scraps.
Title: Re: old hogs Post by: Not color blind on February 05, 2015, 07:45:34 pm I cut and markd a spotted shoat in April of '97 he weighed round 25 pads caught him in February of '08 bout 5 miles away he weighed 365 and had 3 inch cutters my buddy that helped me catch him has him mounted on his wall
|