roperdoc
Senior Member
You know compliance with feeding methods and carcass disposal guidelines will be poor, and nearly impossible to monitor. I would have a real problem if I started finding dead pigs on my property, or losing dogs that ate them.
Very few will put it in a fenced area, except possibly Texas where the pet deer are already in fences also. In Georgia a lot of folks would put it on the property lines to kill the hogs next door. And too many would consider collateral deaths of scavengers and predators a benefit. Why risk Temik in eggs when you can put out a bait that gets pigs, coons, possums, crows, blue jays, foxes, coyotes, rodents, raptors that eat sick rodents, etc., etc. At least Temik was quick.
Bilingual signs. Texas has a sizable "transient" population that can't speak english well. What if they can't read spanish either? Texas forums talk about feeders being a food source for more than wildlife.
I'm just not a fan of putting poisons out, whether for pigs, coyotes or whatever. For that matter, I don't like seeing sick mice or rats dying slowly and miserably from anticoagulants. And I don't like seeing and treating the sick dogs that have been eating them.
I'd be ok with a bounty, or a program to allow sales. Georgia is federally listed as brucellosis free now, and they aren't going to allow sales and testing that would show otherwise.
Many of the present methods that people say don't work are actually pretty effective, just not implemented on a large scale. Trapping like Jagerpro does can be effective, but not if the neighbors aren't trying to eradicate pigs. And it's their right not to. I fence my garden instead of trying to require the neighbors to eradicate deer.
It's a difficult problem to be sure, I just don't think this is the answer.
Very few will put it in a fenced area, except possibly Texas where the pet deer are already in fences also. In Georgia a lot of folks would put it on the property lines to kill the hogs next door. And too many would consider collateral deaths of scavengers and predators a benefit. Why risk Temik in eggs when you can put out a bait that gets pigs, coons, possums, crows, blue jays, foxes, coyotes, rodents, raptors that eat sick rodents, etc., etc. At least Temik was quick.
Bilingual signs. Texas has a sizable "transient" population that can't speak english well. What if they can't read spanish either? Texas forums talk about feeders being a food source for more than wildlife.
I'm just not a fan of putting poisons out, whether for pigs, coyotes or whatever. For that matter, I don't like seeing sick mice or rats dying slowly and miserably from anticoagulants. And I don't like seeing and treating the sick dogs that have been eating them.
I'd be ok with a bounty, or a program to allow sales. Georgia is federally listed as brucellosis free now, and they aren't going to allow sales and testing that would show otherwise.
Many of the present methods that people say don't work are actually pretty effective, just not implemented on a large scale. Trapping like Jagerpro does can be effective, but not if the neighbors aren't trying to eradicate pigs. And it's their right not to. I fence my garden instead of trying to require the neighbors to eradicate deer.
It's a difficult problem to be sure, I just don't think this is the answer.
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