Baymule's 500 Pound Boar!

goatgurl said:

good bye Wilber, you were fun while you lasted. I sure hope he doesn't revolt with no food and tear the place apart.

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It's not 100 degrees anymore, it rained and cooled off...….I can sure see why they were afraid of him. He tore up his water tub, I tossed another one in there. He tore that up too, so now I just fill a puddle for him. Am I going in there to retrieve the tubs for repair? Oh hell no!!!!

We bought a trio of silkies from the lady we dealt with, buying Wilbur. She admitted that when her friend (Wilbur's owner) was out of town, she took one of her kids with her to go feed. She also took a pistol and stationed one of her kids outside the pen while she went in to feed and water him. It sure makes me glad that we can feed and water from the OUTSIDE of the pen.

hey, there's no way in you know where that i'd go in the pen with him. I think sending him to freezer camp is a wise move. that boy could tear up a volkswagen if he set his mind to it. is he sold or are you keeping some of him?

Our neighbor came over to help load Wilbur. I was coaxing Wilbur in the trailer with boiled eggs. He didn't even have his back feet in the trailer and neighbor slammed the end gate on Wilbur's butt. Insert profanity here. LOTS of profanity. I bit my tongue nearly off holding back a load of pissed off. Neighbor thought he’d slap Wilbur with the end gate and make Wilbur jump in the trailer. Uhhhh..... What Effin part of 500 pounds of "do what the hell I darn well please" do you not understand? Wilbur squealed and jumped back. After that, no amount of coaxing or treats would make him put more than his front feet in the trailer.

We quit for awhile and tried again. Wilbur just didn’t want any part of it. We’ll try again in the morning.

@goatgurl I don't have any pre-sold. But he is the star of the show of a neighborhood party in mid October. I sure hope we can get him to load. I really don't want to have to shoot him and process him myself, but I'll durn sure do it if he doesn't get his big fat A$$ in the *%$#@! TRAILER!

There is always one that makes it rough. We have loaded/unloaded probably 75 or more head in the last year or so with no problem until we tried to load the ram that @Latestarter got. That was the first time Teresa got in the chute with an animal and she definitely picked the wrong one. He head butted the gate (coming down) at the 5' level and she was just next to where it rammed the gate.

Loading any kind of stock is an art!

Hope you can get him loaded tomorrow Bay!

Maybe throw some treats up in the trailer overnight. Give him a chance to get his hackles back down and find out that it was a "one off" on the first atttempt and that it's safe to go in. That might help tomorrow. Just a thought.

I think @Latestarter might have a really good idea. Put the treats in the trailer and then back away - he might hop right in if there's nobody around to make him wary.

Never a dull moment. Hopefully you can load him up tomorrow.

Baymule said:

Our neighbor came over to help load Wilbur. I was coaxing Wilbur in the trailer with boiled eggs. He didn't even have his back feet in the trailer and neighbor slammed the end gate on Wilbur's butt. Insert profanity here. LOTS of profanity. I bit my tongue nearly off holding back a load of pissed off. Neighbor thought he’d slap Wilbur with the end gate and make Wilbur jump in the trailer. Uhhhh..... What Effin part of 500 pounds of "do what the hell I darn well please" do you not understand? Wilbur squealed and jumped back. After that, no amount of coaxing or treats would make him put more than his front feet in the trailer.

We quit for awhile and tried again. Wilbur just didn’t want any part of it. We’ll try again in the morning.

@goatgurl I don't have any pre-sold. But he is the star of the show of a neighborhood party in mid October. I sure hope we can get him to load. I really don't want to have to shoot him and process him myself, but I'll durn sure do it if he doesn't get his big fat A$$ in the *%$#@! TRAILER!

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Rope him, and drag his big butt in the trailer.
Does no one know how to use a lariat rope any more?


I thought you said he was big?
https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/teresa-mike-chs-our-journal.31513/page-411#post-569186

It won't help you now, but don't feed him anything and then try a little feed in a flat pan and maybe some milk, in the morning. Walk away and see if he will just go on by himself. I am not sure why you all of a sudden were so afraid of him since he seemed so gentle when you got him...did he do something to make you think he would bother you? Doesn't matter.

In the future, try feeding any animal you are planning to ship/trailer, in the trailer for a week or so beforehand. I used to teach my pigs to go up the ramp and on the 2 ton old truck and eat and then when it came time to load them, they were there before I got there! Have always started a week or so before to get anything to load if it was not used to going on the trailer. This way, they did not panic if I walked near them because they saw the open door. Then they realized that food was in the trailer....

We don't do that with our cattle at the barn, because we have a loading alley and such with a couple of gates to crowd them if we have to. Most of our animals have been loaded several times being moved from pasture to pasture so it's not a big deal. The little calves are a bit skittish but if mom goes, they usually go with her. The heifers get several rides over their lifetime, and it helps.

Another thing, you should have politely told the neighbor to just stay back. The hog knew something was different... and even when we go to catch up cattle at pasture, the person they are most used to is the one who gets them in the catch pen, and the other person stays in the truck out of eyesight so they don't think that you are going to "DO SOMETHING TERRIBLE". Any change of routine is subject for an animal to react with the "fight or flight" response. You also haven't had this hog as long as your others, so he is not as used to your way of doing stuff.