Feral hog solution in feed

[Poke78]

https://hiprofeeds.com/blog/introducing-hogstop-now-manufactured-by-hi-pro-feeds/
"Recently, a new tool to fight invasive feral hogs has been introduced to the market by Corona Feed Additives, LLC. HOGSTOP® is a contraceptive bait used to control feral hogs (Sus scrofa) on pastures, rangeland, forests, and non-crop areas."

"An all-natural contraceptive bait, HogStop targets the male hog’s prodigious ability to reproduce. Feral hogs have the highest reproduction rate of any similar species and can produce a new litter every three months or so and each litter can be as large as 20 piglets.'
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For those of you dealing with feral hogs in your area, does this seem like a workable solution to you? I have some doubts but I'm not dealing with it personally.

 

[Oklahomabassin]

Gestation is 3 months, 3 weeks and 3 days. 114 days. 20 piglet litters are pretty rare, even more so in feral pigs. I guess the article gets more hype if they exaggerate.

A sterile pig will still root up a crop for as long as it is alive.

 

[adamsredlines]

I think for most its a mixed bag...the hogs can be destructive but I also think many enjoy the hunt...so in reality they wouldnt want to totally eradicate them.

 

[MacFromOK]

Unless you own half the county, hogs aren't going feed on your place alone, so your bait may not be a sufficient part of their diet to achieve the desired results. And hogs will eat a LOT of feed when it's free choice.

I'm guessin' Corona Feed will be the primary beneficiary of this idea.

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[Poke78]

Unless you own half the county, hogs aren't going feed on your place alone, so your bait may not be a sufficient part of their diet to achieve the desired results. And hogs will eat a LOT of feed when it's free choice.

I'm guessin' Corona Feed will be the primary beneficiary of this idea.

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If all the boars in the area are shooting blanks, they'll be pretty happy that those sows keep cycling and receptive instead of gestating. Of course, other boars will smell those sows, too, and they might not be on that feed, as you note.

 

[GlockPride]

Better would be to make the contraceptive effective on both males and females.

 

[mr ed]

What keeps bulls, deer, your million dollar stud horse from getting into it?

 

[L.C.]

I use one ounce slugs on them.

 

[rickm]

The only way it will be effective is if everyone in your area feed it and then if everyone on the outside of the area started using it to make it wide spread but just for a few people to use it wont make much of a difference and then the pricing of it would have to be cost low enough to get everyone to use it which wont happen. And as far as other animals getting into it a person would have to build some sort of fence around the feed area to keep other thing out of it.

 

[AKguy1985]

What keeps bulls, deer, your million dollar stud horse from getting into it?

great question! Or does it only work on hogs?