source: Maidenwell Hotel - Debra
Here’s the weekend wrap up in long form. I’ll post an abbreviated version... moresource: Maidenwell Hotel - Debra
Here’s the weekend wrap up in long form. I’ll post an abbreviated version as well.
Distance and weather had a huge impact on our hunters, but wow did they produce some mighty results.
Saturday saw just one TEAM, Steady’s Mob, present a One Hunt Load, at 230kg, but Dion Boothby, lead the SOLO One Hunt Load charge with a 326.1kg haul.
9 Hunters presented on the day with a total of 21 hogs.
Heaviest boar at the end of day 1 was David Foley’s 82.6kg whopper. Close behind was Dion Boothby’s 72kg offering.
Saturday’s heaviest Sow was Neil Baines big girl @ 77kgs. Again Dion followed with a good size 58kg Sow.
Dion might have thought he was in the money in a big way at this stage, but Sunday was a whole new ballgame.
Sunday gave us what both the crowd and the boar hunters wanted.
HUNTERS TEAM dropped 5 hogs @ 301kg, STOOGES loaded up four for 199.55kg, and SLIP SLAYERS also had 4 for 221.45kg.
But the load that won the day dropped 23 hogs for a massive 1035.45kg.
TEAM DUGARDE was on fire and the assembled crowd loved the spectacle of hogs loaded like sardines on a rack.
37 hogs were presented for Sunday, but the daddy of them all was a massive boar from Adrian De Pauw . His 93kg Comp winning monster is destined for the taxidermist but Tevin Waerea’s 87kg Boar was a worthy challenger for Runner Up on the weekend.
Top Sow was huge 81.5kg winner from Tim Cherry with Neil Baines’ Saturday Sow Runner Up at 77kg.
THE STOOGES got top hooks @ 170mm, with Tim Cherry Runner up on 147mm. Great sportsmanship shown here.
Anthony Dugarde got lucky with one of his hogs hitting nearest the pin for the 46kg MYSTERY WEIGHT, and the kids loved the novelty events of an out and back obstacle course and a Gobble Guts eating comp.
Top effort from all competitors, spectators and sponsors. Special mention must go to Jesse Farr of Bristle Up Magazine, who assisted with weighing and dumping nearly every hog in the comp. greatly appreciated.
In all 58 pigs were presented over the weekend, for a massive 3999.95kg on the hook.
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FERAL pigs could have met their match with a new “sleeping pill” heading their way.
The toxin, Hog-Gone, is... moreFERAL pigs could have met their match with a new “sleeping pill” heading their way.
The toxin, Hog-Gone, is being hailed as a breakthrough in defeating the pest in a humane way, essentially putting the wild animal “to sleep”.
“There is no evidence of struggling or pain at all,” Animal Control Technologies’ Linton Staples said.
“There’s no collateral damage to other species, and no impacts to the environment ... we’re quite excited about this being a major breakthrough.”
The toxin has been seven years in the making, with Prof Staples now finalising an application to the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority for the toxin’s use in Australia.
Currently there are few methods for controlling feral pigs — whose numbers in Australia can reach 25 million, depending on the season — beyond trapping and shooting, or using 1080 poison.
But Prof Staples said that given the pigs’ size, 1080 was not ideal because large amounts were needed for it to work.
Hog-Gone, in contrast, uses sodium nitrite, a food preservative that wild pigs can’t tolerate, and generally avoid.
Researchers have found a way to hide the sodium nitrite in a palatable bait which, once eaten, stops oxygen circulating in the bloodstream, similar to carbon monoxide poisoning. “The pigs don’t know anything about it,” Prof Staples said.
“It’s painless — they’re dead within an hour and there is no residue in the carcass,” he said.
In-pen trials show a success rate greater than 90 per cent, while in-field it’s about 80 per cent.
Feral pigs are a growing problem across Australia, their damage costing agriculture at least $100 million a year.
With no natural predators, the pigs can rampage unchecked, predating on young livestock, damaging fencing and destroying hectares of land in a night.
But the biggest threat is their potential to carry and spread a swath of diseases to livestock, particularly should their ever be an outbreak of foot-and-mouth.
Prof Staples said the toxin’s development was a “good example of teamwork”, with up to 40 people from different agencies and different countries working on the research. less
A late-night hunt for wild swine has had serious consequences for one man after he recently cut down and... moreA late-night hunt for wild swine has had serious consequences for one man after he recently cut down and killed pigs in a Rankins Springs farmer’s herd.
Kane Sedola was sentenced in Griffith Local Court on Wednesday, February 22 over a late-night June hunting spree costing the farmer three pigs.
Sedola was charged with two counts of killing cattle with intent to steal and one count of committing an act of aggravated cruelty.
On the night in question Sedola was searching for wild pigs to hunt with two others.
The trio pulled their vehicle over on the side of the road, conveniently coming to a stop alongside their victim’s property – a free range pig farm.
The group pulled up next to a paddock the boundaries of which were outlined by a wire stock-proof fence.
Inside were a number of pigs.
Sedola entered the paddock, climbing over the fence along with two hunting dogs, knives and a spear.
With the help of the dogs a female white sow was captured and killed after being stabbed with the knives and spear.
Then a small black boar was hunted down meeting the same grisly fate as the sow before it.
But the worst was saved for a large black barrow which, after being caught was stabbed a number of times in the mid-section, and was then decapitated.
Police believed the head was taken as a trophy due to the animal’s size, according to police facts.
The pig’s owner made the disturbing discovery of the animals’ bodies on the morning of Monday, June 27 during an inspection of their property.
The farmer called police who attended the scene, finding a six-foot spear made from a pine sapling left beside the body of the boar, as well as tyre tracks leading back to Rankins Springs.
By Friday, July 1 police had received information of Sedola’s involvement in the crime and obtained a warrant to search his home.
Inside his home they found clothes they believed had been worn on the night of the killings, as well as a mobile phone with photos of Sedola posing with the head of the pig he had been involved in cutting off.
Similar photos were also found on his Facebook page.
The total value of the pigs killed was estimated at $785.
Fully grown their worth would have reached $1500 collectively.
Sedola was fined $1500 for each of the killings and was made to pay $785 in reparation to the farmer whose pigs he killed.
Sedola was also sentenced to three months imprisonment for his actions.
However, this sentence was suspended by the Magistrate. less
PETA'S NEW ATTACK - A Post from Ned Makim - Australia Pig Doggers Association
PETA has just launched a new attack on... morePETA'S NEW ATTACK - A Post from Ned Makim - Australia Pig Doggers Association
PETA has just launched a new attack on legal ethical hunters. They hate all hunters of course but unethical hunters using too many dogs to hold a pig, filming themselves releasing piglets and leaving dogs attached to pigs for an unreasonable amount of time may as well be on the PETA payroll... have a look at this and if you choose to comment direct to PETA keep it clean, rational and non abusive. Don't give them more ammo than some of the clowns on their video already have.
Ned.
PETA'S NEW ATTACK HERE: http://www.peta.org.au/issues/entertainment/pig-dogging/ less
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