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  • Double Naught Spy

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    I have a property where the landowner said the hogs were rooting up his winter wheat. I checked the field and found a few small spots of rooting, but then found that some of his randomly scattered oak trees were rooted in a ring around the circumference of the tree, pretty much matching the overall shape of the tree's canopy. So if a tree has a big, circular canopy, there was a big, wide circle of rooting on the ground. If the canopy was offset to one side, the ring rooting was offset of one side. What I want to know, is why is the hog rooting in this pattern? What is it after? These are oaks and there are acorns under them, but not just as nice canopy matching circles under the trees, but all over under the trees, as you would expect. I found 4 trees with these rings. I found a couple of other trees with the random patchy rooting that I would normally expect. Several had not been hit.

    This appears to have been done by a single hog as there was a single set of tracks leading from tree to tree.

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    Hoji

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    Well, that would be really odd because he did it 4 times. Even odder as there are tons of acorns on top of the ground.
    Possibly dead caterpillars?( sudden cold snap? I have been in Massachusetts for months and have not been keeping up with Texas weather unless it is one of my weekends home) Have y’all had rain? Might be digging up worms/grubs.

    Or aliens.
     

    Hoji

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    Seriously though, I would think the concentration of acorns would be heaviest about where the circles are and he is just taking the path of least resistance to stuff himself.
     

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    Double Naught Spy,

    My GUESS is that there is some sort of underground fungus or mushroom that the hog has discovered growing around those trees & that the hog LIKES to eat.

    Could there be TRUFFELS on your property???

    yours, satx
     

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    I have similar patterns around my trees and ground. Not looking for acorns or berries as they are still there. I assume it is whatever it is they are looking for when rooting.
     

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    Double Naught Spy,

    My GUESS is that there is some sort of underground fungus or mushroom that the hog has discovered growing around those trees & that the hog LIKES to eat.

    Could there be TRUFFELS on your property???

    yours, satx

    I have no idea if truffels would be there. I have never looked for truffels to know where they are most apt to be found.
     

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    I have no idea if truffels would be there. I have never looked for truffels to know where they are most apt to be found.

    Double Naught Spy,

    I don't KNOW either. - As I said, I was just GUESSING.
    (It says on "the Worldwideweird" that truffles grow under OAK & HAZELNUT trees only, near the "feeder roots" AND that hogs are trained in Europe to FIND truffles.)

    yours, satx
     
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    Rain water sheds most on the perimeter. Easier digging.
    This may or may not be relevant, but IIRC, the tenderest, newest feeder roots are at that canopy diameter (drip line).
    I'd look for the answer here.

    What's different about the dripline of a tree? Why is that area interesting to a feral hog?
     

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    Out of idle curiosity, I asked a FRENCHWOMAN from "truffles-land" on another forum that I belong to & "Elise" said that the hogs may well HAVE found truffles. = She said that you should DEFINITELY do some digging, as truffles are $$$$$$$ per KG.

    yours, satx
     

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    Double Naught Spy,

    Out of idle curiosity, I asked a FRENCHWOMAN from "truffles-land" on another forum that I belong to & "Elise" said that the hogs may well HAVE found truffles. = She said that you should DEFINITELY do some digging, as truffles are $$$$$$$ per KG.

    yours, satx

    LOL, the problem there is that the landowner does not want his winter wheat dug up.
     
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