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Quarterwheel
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There's nothing that a hog likes much better than sour corn. For every fifty pounds of corn, stir in a packet of yeast, a couple of pounds of sugar and two or three packs of raspberry Jello. Cover with water in a barrel with a lid and stick it out in the sun. Stir it every day or two and keep it covered with water. This time of year, it won't take long for it to be ready.
If deer are a big problem, take the sour corn out the day before you're going to bait it and soak it in diesel. Bury it in the ground under your trap - they'll root around for it. That's why I don't like traps with floors in them. Once a hog roots into a floor, he's gone.
Be sure to use sheep panels instead of cattle panels so the little ones can't get their heads through it - if a hog can get his head through something, he's gone.
Obviously, whatever you do - NEVER LET A HOG GET AWAY. If a hog - or even a pig - ever gets out of a trap, nobody will ever catch him again.
This time of year, it's important to remember to set your traps in the shade. If you can't do that, only set your triggers at night and check them early in the morning. In full sun this time of year, a trapped hog can be dead by dinner.
I firmly believe that the only good hog is dead hog, but that's a rough way to go. Be responsible and don't set your triggers unless you've got shade or can get there early.
Welcome to Ranchers and good luck. And don't forget - the only good hog is a dead hog.
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Quarterwheel
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Texan
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Just got back from the ranch and we used the 4"x4" 4' high 20'long panels and set up 6 of em. Put a steel post every 4-5' and mixed up a batch of corn, water, sugar, jello, and yeast. It is cooking in the sun as we speak. Have a saloon type door on the trap that only opens one way. Can't wait to try it out b/c there is a hog up there that we are guessing weighs around 400#, and he is not very nice to the fences. Thanks for the advice  |
Be sure you put a top on it, because a big hog will go over a four foot panel. And if it's squared, with corners in it instead of round, smaller ones will pile up in the corners and even a 100 pounder can go over them and out the top.
I think you probably also need more posts if you want to keep that 400 pounder. Even with a top on it, he'll try to climb the panels and will probably find a weak spot if you've got four or five feet between posts.
You MIGHT get by with it if you plan on sneaking up on it just close enough to shoot him. But if you drive up to the trap, there's a good chance you'll pressure him into finding a way out. And you normally only get one chance with the big ones.
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Quarterwheel
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| I will try to beef it up some. The area I put this thing is pretty darn rocky though, so getting the steel posts in is sort of a challenge, but I will try my best. I also figure with such hard ground and rock that the hog will have a more difficult time of digging at the base of the paneling. You are probably right about a big one being able to find a weak point. I do have the paneling in an oval shape, so no corners, but might have to make it higher somehow. Do you think putting a strand of barb wire on the 6' posts would help??
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kolanuraven
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Texan
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Do you think putting a strand of barb wire on the 6' posts would help?? |
Only if you use it as a trip wire for some type of large explosive device.
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leanin' H
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backhoeboogie
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A six foot tall pen will not hold a hog.
Did your father ever give you a ride on his back known as a "piggy back" ride. I have seen where that term comes from.
If that 400 pounder doesn't just jump right over that 4 foot fence, shoats will jump onto his back and leap over from there. 150 pound shoats will jump onto the back of another 150 shoat and jump right over a 6 foot pen. I have even seen them three deep once and it was only for a short time. One shoat on the back of a sow. A pig actually bounded up onto of the shoat.
Hogs are smart critters. Please don't just make them trap smart. Put tops on your traps and hold the ones you catch.
Hogs have cost me a lot of nickels in pasture damage and fence wrecking. I am all for anyone trapping them out. Just please hold them once you catch them.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't sell to "game preserves". That is what got us into this mess to begin with. You may as well pull a gun on farmers and rob them if you are selling to game preserves.
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codymccue
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| sounds to me like ya otta be adding somethin special in with the jello powder...get rid of them buggers for good.
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You must feel exactly like Jigs does about deer. See his post on sports and hunting. Good luck catchin' pigs!