Hi Bassman
Sounds promising having both male and female around. Don’t forget the hog may only be using your neighbours garden as a route to get to yours – it may actually be ‘living’ even further afield.
Hogs don’t have territories, as such, they have ranges which overlap. Males ranges are larger than females, which may be why males are more likely to miss visiting one particular place some nights. So the limpy male may be concentrating on another part of his range where the competition may not be so fierce. He may also be laying low until whatever caused his limp heals. The males lower down the pecking order here, in the past, would usually not be put off by being rolled up (some of them quite often) but still visit for food. They usually got a chance to eat, for instance, when the ‘boss hog’ was concentrating on females!
Sometimes you can almost see the females thinking ‘leave me alone, I’m trying to eat’! so not surprising if they get a bit annoyed with the males sometimes. I used to find, when there were a lot of hogs around, that the females always used to turn up earlier to eat, so they had a chance to get a fair amount of food before the males turned up!
