They ain’t ever gonna pass nothing like that. Hogs make the state too much money to be eradicating them. Not just our state, all the states that has hogs. Them universities have worked on that kind is stuff for years, but that’s far as it ever goes. Won’t ever make me believe the government is looking after the hunter’s interests.

...This, plus hogs aren't the demons of the woods they are made out to be. They can be controlled with hunting and trapping. Personally, I'd like to have hogs numbers back up in Bankhead and get back to hunting them. Was a lot of fun at one point.

Plain and simple, Hogs are nothing more than an invasive species that needs to be eradicated. The only people that seem to want them are those that hunt public land because they have no skin in the game and it gives them something else they can shoot at. They dont have to deal with them on a daily, weekly, monthly and annual basis and incur and pay for the monetary damage that they cause. Dealing with hog problems takes a lot of time, money and physical labor/work. Oh and by the way, the sodium nitrate poison pill developed by LSU and mentioned above will never be approved for use in AL and probably not anywhere else either.

This, plus hogs aren't the demons of the woods they are made out to be. They can be controlled with hunting and trapping.

^^^^^Exactly. Thanks for posting that pic Harold, so that the ones that just think they have hogs, will know what it looks like when they really do have hogs.

What's crazy is that the ground looked that way across that whole bottom......The guy said they had counted as many as 200 one night in one of their bigger ag fields....

Honest question. Do you all think having a corn pile now around every bend will make the hog problem worse or make no difference? I hunt a place as a guest in Barbour county that’s loaded with hogs and they have never used corn until this year. The 2 times I hunted it this year I saw less hog sign than previous years. But wounded warriors has hunted them hard last few years during the summer and have killed about 600 i think the last 3-4 years. This is about a 1,000 acre tract

Sounds like to me the pressure pushed them out.

I don't see how you put out enough poison to materially impact the hog population without devastating native populations as well.

I don't see how you put out enough poison to materially impact the hog population without devastating native populations as well.

The bait offers a more effective control method with the bonus of being humane, Gentry said. Within three hours of consuming the bait, hogs become sleepy and die.

Sodium nitrite is an ideal toxicant, he said, because it is deadly to swine and eventually breaks down into compounds that do not harm other species or pose environmental concerns.

Sodium Nitrite is fatal to hogs in small doses but it does not impact the native species.

From the article:

key words ,,,, after it breaks down .

LSU also did extensive research on delivery method to lessen the impact on the native species.

Here's a good article on how SN effects native species. It's even more lethal to raccoons that feral hogs.

https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wil...tions/Foster_2011_SodiumNitrateSwine.pdf

Sodium Nitrite is fatal to hogs in small doses but it does not impact the native species.

Damn I didn't realize it was using sodium nitrite.... that is so deadly people use it to commit suicide. Humans are highly sensitive to it. 2.6 grams can be a lethal dose.

I can't possibly imagine we start broadcasting that into the woods. Anything that is going to attract hogs will attract other animals.

It's a broad spectrum vertebrate poison... not selective at all. Just looked at the study. Killed birds, coons, and basically anything else that decides to try it.

If hogs are such an issue, why does every farmer/landowner want top $ to hunt them these days?

Great question. The answer, of course, is greed. That's the same reason the "professionals" don't really want them hunted, cuts into their need for more grant funding.

So from what I understand, the way they are thinking the poison will have to be used is this:

Put out a corn pile/feeder and put a cell cam on it. Also have a special feeder with the poison in it there with the corn feeder. Once enough hogs show up on camera, use a cell phone to trigger the poison feeder to drop a certain number of poison bait balls. Then only the hogs eat them, and only the hogs die. This is the method to prevent the death of other mammals in the area. The sodium nitrate isn’t transferred to the meat so as long as a hunter didn’t eat the hogs chitlins they would be fine.

I don’t think this method will be popular long term, unless it is made very affordable. Just my opinion. I guess if you don’t have cell service then you just gonna have hogs 😂

Or put a pig brig there and catch them all the same way.

What could possibly go wrong ?

You do realize it’s used as a food preservative right? You probably consume it every single day.

So from what I understand, the way they are thinking the poison will have to be used is this:

Put out a corn pile/feeder and put a cell cam on it. Also have a special feeder with the poison in it there with the corn feeder. Once enough hogs show up on camera, use a cell phone to trigger the poison feeder to drop a certain number of poison bait balls. Then only the hogs eat them, and only the hogs die. This is the method to prevent the death of other mammals in the area. The sodium nitrate isn’t transferred to the meat so as long as a hunter didn’t eat the hogs chitlins they would be fine.

I don’t think this method will be popular long term, unless it is made very affordable. Just my opinion. I guess if you don’t have cell service then you just gonna have hogs 😂