665 now

679 now. Set up a trap yesterday near T-town and caught 13 in it less than 7 hours later. Happy landowner!!!!

Yessir, plz get those little boogers outta Tuscaloosa, they make a serious deer hunters life terrible.

684 now

The year is running out fast and trapping is heating up like crazy. We have had a great year. With 684 removed ourselves and with some of my clients reporting their catches totaling 1089, that is a lot of pigs gone from Alabama.

I am also very proud of our sex ratio removed this year. We have killed 383 females and 301 males. Being a plus 82 really makes a difference on the population.

Just to give an impact perspective. I use an estimate of 5.764045 piglets per female to estimate the impact number. Some sows have 2 litters a year, some 1, and young ones maybe none. I came up with this number after dressing a lot of female pigs and counting unborn piglets for 2 years. The most I have found in a single sow was 11 and the least was 2 (for those that were pregnant).

This is just an estimate and no we did not eradicate the pigs from any property! LOL But, we dang sure made a difference on a lot of them.

Our 684 equates to 2,509.
Our clients caught 1,089 equating to 3,685.
Assuming our clients catch on an even ratio (they don't give me a sex breakdown).

6,194 ain't bad.

LOL, just had a client report a catch of 27 last night.

That's a lot of bacon

Congratulations. What do you do with all the carcasses? They have to be killed as soon as rendered to your possession now so selling them seems like it would be difficult to say the least.

It is. I give a lot away when I can. The problem is it is hard to find someone at 2 AM when I catch. LOL I caught 4 sows last Saturday night and gave them to guests hunting our club. I hate to waste them but it happens.

Wow! It's hard to imagine this many pigs.

693 now. Caught a sow and a bunch of piglets this morning about 10:00 AM.

Good job.

696 now. Caught 2 sows and a little boar this afternoon at 1:00 PM.

The bad part of this catch was I had a first occur. I had 4 little piglets escape.

The only thing I can figure is the sow lay down against the panel and the little buggers climbed on top of her and that allowed them to reach the larger squares. These little fellows were about the size of a gray squirrel.

I hope they will come back to the feeder real soon so that I can catch them.

Those little ones can jump pretty good. I wouldn't sweat the loss of a few - you're doing great work there.

697 now. Caught a big ole stinking boar last night in a trap.

Caught 3 big ones last night in Macon County. Makes the total for the year 700!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You still got two days and the acorns are gone where there's lots of pigs.

Well, we are down to about 10 hours remaining in the year. Looks like 700 will be the final number. It has been a great year. I did have a couple of clients last night with pigs coming in but I don't have any myself. Would be nice to catch a few more before midnight but that would just be gravy!

Thanks you everyone that supported and helped us this year.

Awesome year I hope to participate in the future but it is hard to with a small child.

No doubt about that. Family first!