Wm.Traynor wrote:Now that we know that it was a wombat, could there be a coprophagic swine hanging round for a taste?
RoginaJack wrote:Well, bugger me, Fatso de Wombat but that doesn't explain the footprint. Could be more than one night time visitor.
sungazer wrote:Gwion you left out the most important attribute of wombat poo. If it is disturbed as in you step in it or worse sit in it. (It hides in grass ) It is the most fowl smelling crap on the planet. It also sticks like s**t to a blanket. I am sure that's were they got that term.
Gaznazdiak wrote:Do we have any turd detectives out there?
I have found what I think might be signs of Porky paying a visit to the house paddock.
I don't know how brazen they can get, but these signs are less than 100m from the house. About 2km down the back there is obvious signs of activity with several areas completely ripped up but this is the first time I've seen anything up here.
The reason It's confusing me is there is only a tiny bit of ground disturbance next to the turds, but it is definitely not rabbit diggings.
Also the footprint is new since yesterday and the paddock has been empty for over a week.
grandadbushy wrote:Quiet a few years ago I worked on a station about 150klm away from where I live now and the station owners wife had a nice big flower
garden around the homestead
and being fully fenced she thought the critters couldn't get them
All of a sudden her garden was being demolished night after night so the boss got me to weld 600mm extensions on top of the posts and
we put 3 barbed wire runs on top
But this didn't stop the destruction over the months , they couldn't figure out how the pigs were getting and I was told it was fully fenced and
couldn't see a lot of the fence because of the shrubs but decided to look further and low and behold they had, had a dog flap put into the old
gate they now didn't use as their old dog had past on and shrubs had grown over it
And these pigs had found it and learned how to use it, so the boss said set up a pig trap, over the next two nights we caught twenty-six pigs
and how far was the trap from the house? well I could throw a cup of water into the trap
Pigs have been known to move in and camp under homesteads that haven't been lived in for a few weeks so its possible to find them right at your house
even if you haven't seen them for years because all of a sudden they'll be there
RoginaJack wrote:Hey Magnum65, small world - My oldest brother, his mate and me used to chase pigs out there at the watercourse in Moree back then with a couple of dogs and a 22 Winchester semi-auto that never extracted the fired shells, had to use a screwdriver.
Very Interesting days, loved it and a hot and cold bath at the old bore baths every night, we just walked across the railway lines with towels and a dressing gown..
Great town, was sorry to more on.
Cavey wrote:Hey guys new to the page
Definitely pig tracks mate been huntin them since i was kid what area arw you on
Also has anyone ever seen pigs in wombat state forest in vic been told there out there yet to come across a mob yet alone one
marksman wrote:hey Gaz
this is what I call pig sign
taken yesterday
on a property off the wombat