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Feral hog tails will soon be valued at $5 a pop in Guadalupe County.

The county commissioners court voted Tuesday morning to put a bounty on feral hogs in an effort to eliminate 2,000 hogs in the county.

"I know at the extension office, we get a lot of calls on feral hog control and the problems and the damages and things that they do cause," County Extension Agent Travis Franke said at a March commissioners meeting.

The county applied for and received a $15,000 grant from the Texas A&M Agrilife Service for feral hog control. The grant will fund a number of feral hog management activities, including $5,000 toward the bounty expenses. The county will fund the other $5,000.

For hunters, the $5 fee is essentially expected to reimburse expenses for bounty hunters, not to foster a competition.

Hunters cannot intentionally breed feral hogs just for the program. They cannot bring in hogs from outside county borders. They have to dispose of the animal carcasses. They can only harvest during the eligible period. They must provide the hog's tail to the county as evidence.

"Just because we give a bounty doesn't mean people can come from out of town and go hunting wherever they want. It doesn't mean that they can dump hogs on the side of the road. That's illegal whether we have a bounty or not," County Judge Kyle Kutscher said in the meeting Tuesday.

A start date has not yet been established, but Franke said he anticipates the paperwork will be in place by the middle of July.

It's not an ideal time of year for hog hunting, so any leftover funds can be put toward trapping or other containment efforts.

If the program is successful, county commissioners expressed interest in growing the program in the future.

Anyone from that county a member, you can have mine. I can mail them. Might be a little stinky.

Be nice to know someone that had a slaughterhouse.

it needs to be a program across the south, and run & administered by the usda.

they do food stamps.

why not pig tails?

I suspect that is what's going to happen.

Don't know what kind of public access there is, or if landowner's allow free hunting, but $5 a pop isn't much incentive if overhead to hunt/trap is high. Sounds good in theory but ...

agreed. but it's a start. it's a public recognition of the scope of the problem.

we gotta start somewheres?

It does. Any bounty on animals is easily corruptible.

Always gotta be a crook in there somewhere aye. It's no wonder I can't stand most people anymore.

Me too!

I've seen people really crook on county paid coyote bounties.

I suspect Guadalupe County will get an education shortly.

Hunting is not going to solve the problem.

Not even close to solving it.

Same type program went on here in Bastrop county.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.st...p-county/jqHCA3ttURxDAuDPLZTl8H/amp.html

As far as I know it ended May 31st last year.

Took big damn bite outta the population here.

Lots of people will do it for free If they had access.

I doubt many landowners care about $5.

I think a better solution might be large driven hunts. One where landowners would make a cooperative effort with TPWD or organize them themselves. It would need to be organized with safety emphasized and address concerns of landowners. No landowner wants to allow slob hunters who don't respect rules, safety or pose a risk to their property to trespass. Public recognition has been around a long time. There was large controversy over approving the use of poison not too long ago. The effectiveness of the program would be limited by those private landowners refusing to participate since hogs on their property will migrate.

Well one thing that did happen here is it pushed the hogs into several fancy subdivisions ( aka former habitat)

It's pretty easy to manage access.

That'll happen to Segiun too.

I don’t see near the hogs around here I used to! Last ones I was able to trap here on the place was in 2014. SIL saw about 5 shoats down by the creek crossing in the CR barditch about 3 weeks ago. They just been sparse. I also think the local indigènes have been pretty thorough in their culinary quests for local pork.

Another thunk would be to use portable modular fencing for large corrals to drive the hogs towards.