HIVE TIPPING MYSTERY DEEPENS

The holidays are over.  
The move is over.  

Time to get back to farm stuff.

I think we might have a new clue in the mystery of the beehive that was tipped over recently (CLICK HERE).  These were discovered last week when we took a load of stuff from the house out to the farm prior moving.  I was heading to the barn and saw these tracks going from the driveway toward the barn and shed and then disappearing into dry ground in the back of the property.

 The ground in this spot was wet and muddy and the tracks were deep.  Like a few inches deep.  Whatever it was it had to be VERY large.  I thought it might be deer tracks but whatever made these had to be very, very heavy to sink that far down in the ground.

The only thing we could come up with was a hog.  A wild hog certainly, as no neighbors around us have hogs/pigs (at least that we know of at this point).  No grass was rooted up so it wasn't a large group...this just seems to be one large animal wandering across the bee yard, up the driveway and across the yard to behind the barns.  The bigger mystery perhaps is WHERE DID IT GO?  There is no fencing down that we can find.  Of course, with 11 acres, there is a chance that it's living somewhere on the property that we don't know about, as much of it is still covered in brush/trees.

But are they hog tracks?  Could it be something else?  Maybe a large cow or bull that escaped but found its way back home?

The mystery continues!