Hogs are my greatest enemy, more so than coyotes. We have them bad, and I despise them. Can't kill enough to make much difference either even though we kill 30+ a year. I pen my feeders. Doesn't keep the hogs from coming but it keeps them from hanging around.
We put an apron around all our feeders in mexico and that stopped hogs and javelinas from getting into pen. Just lay bull panel cut to about 3' on ground tied to vertical panels and that stopped everything.
Curious why they say you are wasting your time if you are buying feed in sacks? { I assume protein pellets?} I think I have only bought about 128,546,234,3578,2397,533,789,333 sacks of protein feed over the last 30 years
You've pointed out a few good thoughts and concerns about feeding. The only feeding that we do is in the winter when there's snow on the ground and not much food available for deer. If someone feels like they need to feed in the summer they might have a doe factory or be carrying more deer than their property can handle.
No , not necessarily. I feed from January thru August in La. for a population well below carrying capacity with abundant natural nutrition available as well as a lot of year round food plots. The deer readily include the protein pellets as part of their daily nutrition and there is no question in my mind that it adds value to their overall health. I propose that the habitat and deer herd is very well managed on my property yet a major stress period in the deep south is late winter thru summer. Supplemental feeding helps move the herd to the 100%.The concept of a 'doe factory ' is totally meaningless to me.
Great looking pen. One thing we had to do after a time when critters [ in our case javelinas, coyotes, etc ] starting burrowing under the pens was to put a net wire apron around the outside of the pen. That stopped all problems. May not be a problem in other locales but for us having pens like yours for 15+ years critters did start digging underneath making way for pigs. Interestingly, by cutting down the food supply for pigs the population has become more manageable.
It was tongue in cheek. Their point seemed to be that you’d better be buying in bulk and not in 50-lb increments.
The Comanche ranch is about 2 miles from me owned by Lee Bass. Between it and the Faith ranch which is directly across the Rio Grande from me they have done some of the best whitetail research ever . Good people. My good friend Dr. Harry Jacobson set up the program at Ms. State and the work they continue on there is some of the best in the country.
Coincidentally, an article was just published in the July 2019 issue of Deer and Deer hunting magazine written by Bob Zaiglan on the effects of protein supplementation. I've known Bob for years, am close friends with the landowner where the research was done and know the ranch very well. Bob is a solid researcher and the landowner is the most analytical person I have ever known. Together they spell out with great accuracy what can happen with a well designed supplemental protein feed program. Acre for acre the ranch in question may be one of the best properties anywhere.
I raised it 8" since then, so maybe they can't reach it now. 
