After a very long dry spell, hogs are being caught again. My hog trappers have several "small" traps that are about 4'x4'x8', a "medium" size trap, and a "large" trap. The large is built with four drop down doors, one on each size. The larger hogs have been shy of the smaller traps so they built the big one so that the hogs can see their way out as they enter any of the four doors. This last catch, two 200+ pounds, was the first catch in the big trap. A 3rd hog escaped capture by virtue of being not completely through a door when it dropped. A few days ago, they caught 7 ~50 pound pigs in a single catch in the medium size trap.
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The brown is a pregnant sow and the black is a boar. In transfer from the trap to the pictured transport trailer, the sow refused to cooperate and had to be winched into the trailer. After, the boar followed her in.
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