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Our small club in Butler Co., Al experienced a hog incursion up a small creek flowing thru our lease. One day no hogs ever, next day hogs hitting all the greenfield/food plots! One member, a welder, made 4 hog traps and baited them with corn. We shot off plots or trapped 17 hogs in a couple weeks! Got a call one day from the trap man-had 4 baby pigs in a trap! I met him at the site, 2 black and 2 brown(looked like chipmonks) little pigs were caught. He took the blacks(male/female) and I took the browns(male/female). Our experiences were similar from then on. Got my 2 home and put them in a dog kennel. Not 30 minutes after locking them up, I brought food and water to them and sat in the pen on a bucket watching them. They checked me out, after a very short settling down time, and with less than 15 minutes with them in the pen the little boogers were standing up on my leg and eating grapes and apple slices from my hand! Chris's pair did the same. Long story short we raised them in a large enclosed area (2 acres) which they plowed better than a tractor, first born was a single piglet runt. Sow had no problem with me handling her or the piglet. Sadly it died. 2nd litter was 4 piglets. They did well and were like puppies. By now boar was pushing 200#, sow 125#, both still docile. During this time my wife added "cute" goats to the same enclosure. One day she discovered the hogs, young now half grown, liked goat kid newborns like candy and that was the end of the pigs. We gave the young to friends/club members and had the 2 adults butchered. Lots of great pork, it was free range, corn assisted goodness.The strange thing about this incident is- after the trapping of the babies and killing 2 more adult hogs in a trap none have been seen on that lease or surrounding leases since 2000!
