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I can't speak to rats specifically, but in my state feral hogs are a problem. The state wildlife office doesn't let hunters take them on public land, because it
by mod 5y ago
I can't speak to rats specifically, but in my state feral hogs are a problem. The state wildlife office doesn't let hunters take them on public land, because it makes them skittish and they stay spread out (you can take them on private land with a landowner's okay, though).
They set up baited traps where a giant cage is suspended, which then falls onto the whole...team. (I looked up the word for a group of hogs)
Anyway the relevant bit is that supposedly, each year you have to kill/remove 60% of the existing hogs just to maintain the current population
Needless to say, doesn't seem like it's working.
- Wistar 5y ago[adds "team" to vocabulary as the term of venary for hogs] Thanks!
- mod 5y agoYou'll be interested to know there were several related words, I just chose one: Group of pigs: drift or drove Group of hogs: tassel or team Group of "swine" (? I don't know the difference): sounder Piglets: farrow or litter or squeal Illinois says: herd
- throwaway0a5e 5y ago>Group of "swine" Legislature
- mncharity 5y ago> (? I don't know the difference) My superficial googling suggests pig and hog were once, like piglet, developmental subcategories of swine (unweaned and ready-for-market). Like shoat (weaned), and gilt/sow (female that hasn't/has reproduced). But meaning has blurred and diversified since.
- umvi 5y agoI thought it was "sounder"
- ShroudedNight 5y ago> They set up baited traps where a giant cage is suspended, which then falls onto the whole...team. For an example and further explanation: https://youtu.be/rsFXhGoDnW0 https://youtu.be/rsFXhGoDnW0 Notably they speak of needing to trap >70% of the population just to keep it stable
- duxup 5y agoI laughed out loud at the cows in the conventional trap. Grew up in a rural area, feels like a very typical 'silly' cow type thing.
- Gustomaximus 5y ago> They set up baited traps where a giant cage is suspended, which then falls onto the whole...team Have you seen this? Normally the gate drops only. Many ways but what seems normal in my experience, guys set up a trap with multiple entry/exists with food inside. Over time they reduce to one entry with a gate that has a trip wire or more commonly these days a camera with remote control gate release. Sometimes people use wire mesh panels overlapping to create a gate that pigs can push through one way only too. We just had a massive boom where I am. Pigs foraging within 10m of the house (normally they would never be within 100m) and moving further into our valley than we'd ever seen before.
- mod 5y agoA sibling comment to yours included a link to a youtube video demonstrating exactly what I was talking about. They talk pretty extensively about different types of traps and their effectiveness during what seems like fairly extensive research.
- Gustomaximus 5y agoThanks, hadn't see that.