Zep I was going to reply to the poison thing, but I got distracted last night by my dvr.
I agree with esshup about poisoning. IMO, there's just to big a chance of poisoning other animals, as corn is an attractive bait for other animals and birds.
Personally, I'm afraid the only way to control them is through financial incentives. If the state offered bounties, or there was some way to amend the laws for selling wild game, then maybe more would be removed. My butcher in Emory said he deals with a dealer that can sell all the packaged hog meat that he can provide. But, the butcher has to have it alive, and that creates the problem. They really have no value to warrant the expense of penning and trailering them to a professional butcher.
In fact, I bought a live feral hog last year for $10. The butcher makes his money on the processing, I had a nice 150 pound sow packaged in the freezer, but the guy that brought the 10 hogs in got $100. That's not a lot of money for the trouble involved.
My butcher told me last year that if he could keep a flow of live feral hogs coming in, there is definitely a market for the meat.
There are TX feral hog buying stations around the state, and I believe it's still 28 cents a pound plus a 4$ bonus for the 100 pound + hogs.
