Aint they something. As much fun as it is to shoot them, it's really something to watch them in a trap. When ye have a full sounder inside & it's like they are moving as one. Their tough SOB's. The JAGER guy's caught one with it's stomach hanging out. I shot a big sow with one leg seized up. No visible injury other than mine but i did find a rifle round in her shoulder, maybe a .556 but the shoulder had shattered & healed around the bullet maybe a couple or 3 months before i got her. Another one had half his face shot off & the the jaw had also grown back together all sorts of wrong, so this boar was running round Oklahoma for maybe a few months, eating, drinking with this wound. I'd have committed 'suicide by hunter' if i was him, lol
That hog has some intelligence which not only results in analysing the predicament he is in , but his brains do process what is probably the best method to escape. Animals are not as dumb as we make them out to be. That hog deserves an equivalent of a university certificate as on a relative basis, he is more intelligent than some students I met in my teaching career.
He almost got out again while they were preparing his transfer to the trailer. He was very capable to get out again with a little bit of luck. Give him 24 hours in that enclosure and he would have escaped.
My dad had a domesticated pig climb fences like this one. It was always getting out and he finally saw the pig climb fences like this. My dad solved the problem by butchering the pig.
Years and years of evolution got him like this...The ones after him will figure to get a "runining start" and give new meaning to the phrase..."When pigs fly ".....Lol !!!!
Damn nasty too. A wild bore will do a lot of damage and God forbid you ever get caught by one, let alone a group. Consider yourself a dead feller.. This is one of the best traps I've seen yet, most practical too.
Not that smart. He fixated on the door where he entered and that's where the extension was placed. He could have jumped that fence in any other place because the extension was only over the door. He kept trying to jump where the extension was. He only tried elsewhere a few times after he had tired himself out. The smart ones are the ones who refuse to enter the trap under any circumstances. I saw one video where a large hog almost knocked the fence over by charging it. If these hogs were lions instead of hogs they'd line up together on one side of the cage and charge the other side together to flatten the entire trap.
No, he actually is fairly smart, as he first tried at incline. The rest of the trap is angled toward the center. The only part that has a slight incline is the entrance. So he is smarter than you.
Never underestimate a hog. Especially a feral one. Hogs are are intelligent badass critters . It would seem logical and an obvious that the traps have at least 2 feet more in height and a inner facing guard at the top all around it. seems by the time they're able to scale almost to the top of the one we're looking at in the video they begin to run out of momentum so two feet more with a guard at the top should do the trick.
To keep the hog from jumping, apply a .308 round to its ear canal.....then turn his fat frame into pork chops, bar b que ribs or other tasty ham products.....!
Never saw a hog jump before and I've seen thousands of them! We kept them fat and happy so they didn't try to escape. LOL ;-) I wouldn't want to have to tangle with one of these wild ones, they are fast and mean!
Great video! Boy-- I bet you all were proud when you got this monster in your trailer! That was some contest! This thing demonstrated the assertion that pigs are the 4th or 5th smartest animals on the planet...!
Some fella on the Internet mentioned that a 50 lbs. bag of field corn runs about 8-10 f.r.a.u.ds Thanks for the video. I've watched it several time and always am ROTFLOL.
Dang.... I'm. Surprised at how clever this high is. And also the fact that he done what he did I'm surprised that he went back in the feeder.... Jeez!!! Wonder if the other hogs watched and learned what he was doing... This is absolutely shocking to me hahaha
the guy that leases the ag on our home place learned the hard way how athletic hogs can be. I told him he could trap if he wanted, he managed to trap a pretty good size boar and transferred him into a stake.bed pickup for transport. He was eating supper watching the truck/ hog out the kitchen window when the pig scaled the 1x4 bed enclosure, landed on top of the cab and clattered off the hood. Tore up a fence holding a bull calf and away he went. ,
If the boar was a little smarter, he could of escaped by running from one end of the cage to jump on the water tank and then jump again from there right over the gate.
I hope Hogdini is doing OK... Please keep him on 25lbs of corn per day until I can arrange transportation and payment, the bank has OK'd $7500.00 for him, due to his jumping talent. He has a special pen at the Cumberland Zoo waiting for him. And lastly, please put a pillow below where he is jumping, we don't wanna have him sprang a hock. :)
Sold to a buyer, fed at feed lot or farm, sold as wild boar to restaurant or shipped overseas Or just taken to a processor and made into sausage. Many towns have programs set up were a processor will butcher a hog and donate it to a local family, childrens home or kitchen of some sort. Dallas has Hunters for the hungry, a great org
Part of the problem with getting them to jump up into the trailer was shocking them from above. If you shocked them from low on the side jumping upwards wouldn't be so threatening.
