Hogs!

There are no pretty pictures today.  This is what we woke up to yesterday morning on one side of our driveway up by the road.

The culprits?  Feral hogs!  I'm sure you've all heard about the feral hogs in the Southern United States.  In Texas alone, the state legislature estimates that feral hogs do up to $400 million (that's $400,000,000!) in direct damages annually to our state. These porcine princes and princesses can churn up a pasture in a Texas minute!  If the scene above weren't enough, dawn broke this morning to to find ...

... this mess on the other side of the driveway!  Although not as large an area as the night before, desperate times call for desperate measures!

The hog trap!  Our pasturage lessor normally keeps a trap in our bottomland, so he went and hauled it up the hill and placed it in the area of damage.  After all, his cows eat our grass and with the drought we've had (he cut hay last week and got 17 bales off a plot of land that normally yields 100!) he's protecting his investment by attempting to keep it hog-free.

Sprinkle a little corn around the outside of the door to entice them in!

 

Add a hefty serving of the stuff toward the back of the trap and in the inner chamber.  Make them think they're in hog heaven (which is hopefully where they will be soon!) so they become oblivious to the fact that the door will soon shut and trap them in this inescapeable box.

Tune in tomorrow.  We hope to be having sausage for breakfast!