Guides

Precise, dated, sourced answers on feral hogs, trail cameras and what your photos are telling you. One topic per page.

• How to identify a feral hog sounder

  Solo boar or sows with juveniles? How group structure shows up on your trail-camera photos, and why it changes your play.

• Why trail camera AI struggles with hogs

  Night shots, mud-caked coats, overlapping bodies: the reasons hog photos defeat generic AI tagging, explained.

• Feral hog rooting and wallow damage: reading the signs

  How to tell rooting from wallowing, date the damage, and estimate how many hogs are working your land.

• Is feral hog hunting legal year-round in Texas?

  What Texas Parks & Wildlife actually allows on private and public land, sourced from TPWD directly.

• What feral hog damage costs Texas landowners

  USDA and Texas figures on crop, pasture and property damage — and what drives the bill up.

• Can I use HogSight with my Spypoint, Tactacam or Moultrie cameras?

  Yes — HogSight reads photos, not camera brands. How SD-card import works with the cameras you already own.

• Feral hog fencing cost: what landowners report

  What exclusion fencing runs per foot, where it fails, and the alternatives ranchers actually discuss.

• Farm Bill feral swine funding: where reauthorization stands

  The status of federal feral-swine program funding — what has passed, what is still pending, dated.

• The FY2026 USDA feral swine window is closed: what happens now for a landowner

  The pilot window closed September 25, 2026. Landowners never applied directly: help comes through partner organizations in pilot project areas. What to do next.

• How to count hogs in a sounder from trail camera photos

  Single photos undercount. The method that gets a real number: max count across nights, unique adults, one site at a time.

• How many hogs are actually in a sounder?

  Websites quote 6-12 or 20-40 — both are guesses. The sourced range is 2 to 50, and the variance is the real answer.

These guides come with HogSight, which reads your trail-camera photos and maps the whole sounder before you ever sit the feeder.