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Pigs and Roosters - 1voyager1 - 02-22-2021
M' Lady rides her bike around LE almost daily.
She comes back with accounts and war stories of encounters with pigs during her rides.
We had rooting signs along our road right after the county pulled it's nose out of local business and allowed us to return to our homes after forcing us out.
Shortly after the people returned to their homes, all signs of pigs disappeared from our local area.
I'm convinced that was due to dogs being returned to their homes when their owners brought them back with them.
Pigs have not decreased in other areas, but seem to have increased in numbers.
I suspect that the lack of dogs in those areas is the reason.
I have made plans to become proactive in the discouragement and removal of pigs if they do invade our property.
I have given serious consideration to getting some hens.
They'll keep the bugs cleaned up and give us a supply of eggs.
Plus, they're relatively quiet.
Not so sure of that anymore.
Yesterday morning we had a lone rooster in our yard.
I'm not a fan of cockcrows.
So, I chased him off.
One of the cats was intrigued, but hesitant to go after it.
Personally, I think the chicken would have kicked his butt.
I think it was feral, ... good sized, skinny; looked almost like a fighting cock, and flew into trees for refuge.
And, I've never heard a cockcrow in our area even though a few neighbors do keep some hens.
Being feral, I think it was looking for food and hens.
Methods for killing pigs seems a bit too much for roosters.
So, Best ways to get rid of roosters, preferably by killing them?
RE: Pigs and Roosters - My 2 cents - 02-22-2021
For roosters, trap, kill, clean and put in freezer.
For pigs, trap, kill, clean and put in freezer.
In my experience, if you have hens the roosters will find you. Unless you keep them caged, but then you lose the debugging aspect.
Cats generally will not tangle with chickens. Chicks yes, but not if there is a mother hen.
Dogs on the other hand will naturally kill chickens but can be trained not to. However, I have never seen a dog that could differentiate between hens and roosters, and kill one but not the other.
RE: Pigs and Roosters - Durian Fiend - 02-22-2021
You can shoot roosters with pellet gun too. I don't want pigs or dogs around. The C trap is reputed to be the most effective for catching swine.
RE: Pigs and Roosters - terracore - 02-22-2021
In my experience the pellet gun is hit or miss in effectiveness. Their organs are tiny and hard to visualize their placement, and even a decent pellet gun lacks enough stopping power without a good kill shot. I don't like the thought of just injuring the creature leaving it to run away and suffer. We usually trap them. We can usually save the breast meat and make stock with the rest of it, feeding the bits and pieces to the dogs.
RE: Pigs and Roosters - My 2 cents - 02-23-2021
Trapping also makes it more convenient to process them. You can cage them as you trap them and and then process them all at once at your convenience and more efficiently. When you shoot one you will have to process it right away, and the others will have run into the bushes and you will be faced with the same scenario tomorrow.
RE: Pigs and Roosters - 1voyager1 - 02-24-2021
Back during the eruption, many people ran off leaving many abandoned animals behind.
We were inundated by abandoned cats.
Our two cats were young and the invaders were beating them up, often and regularly, had a few vet bills because of them.
I bought a trap and began trapping the invaders, delivering them to the SPCA to protect our cats.
I caught each of our cats one time before they learned.
Still have it, but I had assumed it was too small to use for a rooster.
It has an opening 9" X 12" and is about 2-1/2' long.
It is big enough to hold one.
Have my doubt that one would go into it because the 9" X 12" opening is probably too small.
I will not buy and keep a second larger trap too.
But, I see a few workable trap ideas on the I-net.
It's been a few days with no sign of him back yet.
The problem might be over for now.
If not, he'll make good soup.
Although, I hate plucking and cleaning chickens.
I do not trust the trapping of pigs to be effective.
They, like cats, learn very easily to avoid traps making them ineffective.
We don't keep dogs, several neighbors do.
Only see them when they walk them, never hear them.
I like the dogs in our area.
The owners are responsible.
RE: Pigs and Roosters - terracore - 02-24-2021
We trap roosters in a big wire dog crate. We put it out with our domestic hens and feed them in there. Eventually the ferals go in to steal food. Both feral hens and roosters. Then just close the door. Getting them out without escaping is a bit of a trick, but it usually works.
For trapping pigs we learned the best way is to leave the trap out when we're not trapping. When we get room in the freezer we set the trap and the pigs just go in because they are habituated to seeing the trap every day. After trying all the different types of bait (including a professional pig bait we got on Amazon) we found the best bait so far is chicken layer feed pellets. The last time we used it we caught 12.5 pigs in a trap designed for a SINGLE pig. It was crazy and I have no idea how they tetrised themselves to even fit inside of it.
RE: Pigs and Roosters - My 2 cents - 02-24-2021
12.5? That deserves some 'splanation.
RE: Pigs and Roosters - eightfingers2.0 - 02-24-2021
.5 is a hamlet
RE: Pigs and Roosters - 1voyager1 - 02-24-2021
(02-22-2021, 08:57 AM)My 2 cents Wrote: ... Cats generally will not tangle with chickens. Chicks yes, but not if there is a mother hen. ...When I was a teenager I looked out the window and saw our little female Siamese coming across our yard dragging a chicken she had killed by its neck.
It was so big she was tripping and stumbling over it.
It probably weighed more than she did.
It was not the only one she had killed.
We had let her have a batch of kittens.
I think she was bringing a snack home for the kids.
It was a hen not a rooster which may have made a difference.
As cute as she was, she was not a favorite of the neighbors.