Feral Pig Control
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- Feral pigs (Sus Scrofa) are costing the North Queensland agriculture sector in excess of $80 million annually. Whether you're a landowner, hunter, local government or NRM officer faced with the management of the class 2 pest, an integrated and collaborative approach is needed for long-term results.
This video draws on the extensive experience of Senior Zoologist and feral pig expert Dr Jim Mitchell and showcases real landholders who are having success.
NQ Dry Tropics has a series of complimentary handbooks available at wiki.bdtnrm.org... or by calling the NQ Dry Tropics Regional Pest Management Officer on (07) 4724 3544.
NQ Dry Tropics manages the Burdekin Dry Tropics region.
You guys are great!!! I think the Federal and State governments should come together to make a plan for 100% annilation,farmers are very busy people and need a lot more assistance so they can do their work without these problems.
As a hog trapper, I recommend all traps be built with a 4 inch x 4 inch X 5 foot tall x 20 foot long material; adding a 16 inch high 4 inch x 4 inch to the bottom of the panel, except offset the 16 inch to make the 4 inch squares into 2 inch wide by 4 inch openings. This will keep the piglets in the trap; otherwise in 2 months those piglets will weigh 50 lbs and will breed at 7-8 months of age. Make the traps circle type traps( use at least 5 panels with tee post reinforcing every 4 feet) to catch most of the sounder. The trap door can be made using a V design of the panel, or a guillotine design with a trip at the farthest point from the entrance. Bait the trap with corn through out the trap. Do not set the trigger to the door until the pigs have cleaned the trap of corn for at least 5 occasions. This will probably catch more trap wary hogs. Hogs are smart and communicate with other hogs warning them of traps. Also if a pigs escapes a trap the chances of catching it again is slim!
Jager Pro needed!!!
A regulated hunting program like vic and nsw is needed for public land. Boost the economy in rural towns and take the pressure off the native species and no cost to the tax payer.
Advertising internationally for feral hunting trips could bring in a lot of money.
Delusional recreational and game animal management orientated hunters are incapable of effective pest control except possibly in the most accessible places (they seem good for accessible farmland where they don't have consent). As soon as numbers get down a bit they want to protect pests and also actively liberate/disperse them.
Open free permitted hunting on public land except where control operations are active is fine. Not to be confused with shooting/scaring a few pests (not control), its training them to be wary & spreading the problem.
The hog hopper looks a great idea; animal specific.
a key point he made, any farming land fringed by bush is hit hard, why recreational hunting on public land is not allowed in QLD baffles me, it wont irradicate the pigs but it will sure lower the numbers making it less expensive for the farmers
Thanks for the comment!
@@NQDryTropicsNRM Worked for years trying to get rec hunters to contribute usefully to pest control (different species). A few were good, some others also helpful (not all positive contribution is killing pests), and many were deluded obstinate ineffective nuisances. They did contribute significantly when wild pig carcasses were routinely sold & processed as game meat export in accessible places. Pigs needed difficult cover or access to thrive during That period (it wasn't profitable for most, but like with deer, the keen killed everything they could & enough were effective commercially to significantly control populations in many places.
Those professionals employed for control needed thinning out too to get good results. Most (bigger organisations to the fore) were mediocre. Putting pest control payments onto a payment system for outcomes (post control population assessments paying on lack of residual pests) instead of results (numbers killed) sorted some of that out. Unfortunately many managers at many levels had their own tangents. politicians intervene and effective coordination of interests seemed like mustering cats.
It seems if access logistics could be overcome ($$$) pigs could probably be locally eradicated. Right technique sequence. operators and clinical managers. The systems & tools are out there, but risk being being butchered. That last 5% is going to cost as much as the first 95% probably, much of it on the last few females.
North Queensland is from St Lawerence - Bowen. Far North Queensland is from Bowen up.
Great information, thanks for posting.
Surely the use of semi-auto center fires to be used from heli's instead of shotguns is justified by this video, very safe as all shots have the ground as an immediate backstop. I'd also argue that the increased fire power is more humane as well as far more economical.
Definitely Jonathan - an AR15 is an ideal pig knocking over tool. Like you say terra firma is a great backdrop.
Yep. We use mostly AR-15s (5.56 and 6.8spc are very popular) and AR-10s in the US. Thermal and night vision. Dogs and helis.
Defender shotgun rounds work the best, still great for 100 metres, and cheaper to buy in
@@carlh7795 .308 semis that will eat ammo consistently provide that extra horsepower. Marginal shots happen, even by the really good clinical accurate aerial shooters (rare beasts themselves). An immediate follow up shot without taking eyes off target is a huge advantage, correcting misses or target to next target. A .308 cycles well, ammos common, and often makes 2 good sized holes, even through a bush etc usually. The down side is volume shooting heavier recoil calibres is less comfortable for the shooter, hence sometimes less popular.
On a different species (a bit harder to hit) some preferred the shotguns and .223's & were adamant about their virtues (just head shoot them). Those following after commonly got survivors with embedded souvenirs, probably counted as kills.
Yes they do use semi autos but most shooters in Australia are reluctant to display them
Great vlog
Glad you enjoyed
Need some of the new trapping methods from USA. The cell phone observation system.
For sure. Can monitor the trap remotely with a cell phone when using a digital game camera to watch the trap. Then when all the pigs are inside the perimeter of the trap, it is remotely triggered to drop. Any which happen to escape should be immediately hunted with dogs.
Have been looking at the Jager Pro videos. Really interesting stuff. Pigs are intelligent and will learn. Have just bought 100 acres in the South East of QLD. It's cattle country so I'm keen to see what the feral activity is!
Massive problem, I've seen 500 knocked over in a weekend (Etheridge shire ), the morning ground to move en masse in blackness, and the end result , barely a dint to a large cattle station property. Rate of breeding requires a concerted effort of sustained hunting over many years throughout our whole top end. And yummy sweet sugar cane is a pigs desert. I dont see this problem ever being resolved under our current Govt's land care programs where the Greens dictate measures
woven fences used as a kill box for shooting
Wow, feral hogs seem to be a growing menace worldwide! Great video, thanks for posting.
I see a great potential supply for bacon and ham.
Dazu muß man die toten Tiere aber einsammeln. Wenn die liegenbleiben sind die ein gutes Futter für die anderen Wildschweine und Wildhunde und Wildkatzen. Je besser das Futter ist, desto mehr Ferkel überleben. Und dadurch wird das Problem nicht geringer, sondern nur größer.
how about some remote control claymore blastings
Thus far you continue to tighten the ropes on harvestsers who are the main avenue for control, why not relaese the pressure on wild game havestors who are your avenune to control ?
Fair comment. Thank you. It's a good question to put to relevant government agenices. We'll follow up.
Why don't these animals end up in the processing facilities run by Wild Game resources? They run the chiller boxes around QLD. Apparently the wild pork is exported to Europe for human consumption?
Fair comment! A good question to put to the relevant government agencies. We'll follow up.
Gyrocopters do the same thing, and are half the cost to buy and maintain. A coop could buy a few....fun to fly, too.
Great Video,,, Very Informative,,, Good Luck... Do You or Can The Very Pigs That Are Ground Shot Pigs,,, Eatable ?
You have to get rid of the whole sounder or they just just breed right back up again ... So along with shooting you need to trap .
Trapping here in United States works. We use the circle traps. Check them out on RUclips. Here in United States they trap 20 to 30 pigs at one time
Locally at best, reports consistently inform the problem is getting worse. = failure.
Certainly can be effective on local scale temporarily. And would be part of effective control if not for the politics and problem human factor. May don't want effective pig control, or eradication.
very interesting video...well done...
Questions: Are these pigs wormy? Can they be processed well enough to be consumed by humans?
Hello! Our advice is don't eat these pigs, not just because of worms but also they can carry diseases such as tuberculosis.
If you eat them make sure the internal temperature of the pork is no less than 160°F
@@NQDryTropicsNRM Well someone must be consuming them, as the pig boxes( cold room chillers) throughout QLD owned buy Wild Game Resources process and export to Europe I've been told.
U go get em Daniel. To bad no bacon. U an uzi Good luck.
The Pig Brig Trap
Very huge animal s mate
I have watched 'this whole series and no- one has asked about the dogs ,or told the breed or how many they use at a time, I am sure many people around the world would like to know ! I think Ridgeback would be good , how about you?
Maybe. People use anything from foxie to great danes but normally xbreed dogs. It’s your choice. How many is determined by how good the hounds are. Ridgeback x maybe. Pure would most likely overheat and die in our climate
The door can also be your weakest point that they can escape from
I wonder if there are no lakes deep enough to make the pigs swim and use the chopper to herd them into the lake where they would be easy to shoot
Then who's going into the water to fish out the rotting corpses. Not many "lakes" up here, better you do a Google Map search
What do you do with the hogs once trapped? Are they given to food banks or something like that? Make cat food out of them?
rewatch and listen to what is said about the diseases Pigs can carry and pass on.. Our climate does not afford for meat to be left out for hours, most pigging country has a high temp and humidity range. To get a few carcasses back to a cold storage location can take 100 + klms driving, and then the facilities need generators to power them and must be picked up a frequent times before the meat spoils, to do all this over an area of thousands of Klms / miles isn't fesibile. Maybe skinning them may be worth a few dollars.. only, and who wants to get paid $ 10 -20 to do that shitty job.
Damage by feral animals is very demoralising as you know it could have been prevented by people taking care in the first place with never allowing pigs to go wild I mean rabbits and foxes were both deliberate introduction
Funny when you see people you know lol
A couple of careless doggers can cause more problems if they don’t always retrieve their dogs this has been a problem in the Victorian high country where deer hunters have left their dogs behind when lost on a hunt these dogs just ad to the wild dog problems for farmers in those districts
All the dogs have a GPS tracker on their collar, this serves several purposes. No professional hunter would risk losing a valuable dog
Fishpest exactly, I live in the central highlands inland from the Whitsundays (NQ Region) and don’t know of any pig chaser who doesn’t use gps on their dogs. Definitely a different breed of people down Mexico
And your limited too onea hunt, sure
They eat Bananas? Can they climb?
Behindtheblackstump they will chew through soft banana tree trunks until the tree falls over
Good answer to dumb question
And whats going yo happen not until shit hits the fan opps then its yhe rats or rabbits .wake up youvfucks
Dam hogs.
Junky traps
why we not eating this!
rewatch and listen to what is said about the diseases Pigs can carry and pass on.. Our climate does not afford for meat to be left out for hours
Well if they relaxed the gun laws .more people would take up pig eradication
And student eradication
And be a greater risk to the landholders stock, and disrupt a planned program by not following a proven eradication plan. Once the occasional hunter starts to impact a professional hunters income he would then need to move on leaving the landholder to fend for themselves. Competition comes at a cost
About the only good they do is eat the occasional cane toad and they feed some croccadiles
What wild cats