Wild Hogs & Plots

[MarkDarvin]

Question for the guys with pigs...

Do any of you guys low fence your plot as a means to keep them from destroying plots? Or is that not able to keep them out?

 

[Stevieray]

Four foot hog panels with t-post only way to keep hogs out in my opinion. Best to trap and kill them.

 

[Drycreek]

Mark, I only pen my feeders. Inside I have a spin feeder, sometimes a protein feeder, and a mineral block. I've been doing this for several years and I've never had a hog inside. I use hog panels, (32" high I think), a T post at each joint, and one in the middle of each panel. I chop my T posts off until they drive evenly to the top of the panel with the T post plate buried about 2"/3" deep. T posts on the inside of course.

They don't root in my plots, but they do eat a lot in them. My main gripe is that they root where I drive and where I mow. A large boar will make a crater a foot to 18" deep and three to five feet across. It is extremely aggravating to try to mow there. They also move deer around and affect how and when deer move. Deer will not stay on a plot if a hog comes around. They inhibit deer feeding in plots at night. I don't know how many pics I've had of deer feeding in my plots, all of a sudden their ears go up, and a minute or two later the plot full of deer becomes a plot full of hogs.

You can kill the hog if he shows up while you're hunting, but your deer hunt is over for that sit. That's why we kill every hog we see without exception.

 

[Drycreek]

This is an unpenned directional corn feeder in a small opening in the woods. I put it there mainly to bowhunt hogs. I have a bow blind to the left out of frame. They pay no attention to it.

 

[MarkDarvin]

Mark, I only pen my feeders. Inside I have a spin feeder, sometimes a protein feeder, and a mineral block. I've been doing this for several years and I've never had a hog inside. I use hog panels, (32" high I think), a T post at each joint, and one in the middle of each panel. I chop my T posts off until they drive evenly to the top of the panel with the T post plate buried about 2"/3" deep. T posts on the inside of course.

They don't root in my plots, but they do eat a lot in them. My main gripe is that they root where I drive and where I mow. A large boar will make a crater a foot to 18" deep and three to five feet across. It is extremely aggravating to try to mow there. They also move deer around and affect how and when deer move. Deer will not stay on a plot if a hog comes around. They inhibit deer feeding in plots at night. I don't know how many pics I've had of deer feeding in my plots, all of a sudden their ears go up, and a minute or two later the plot full of deer becomes a plot full of hogs.

You can kill the hog if he shows up while you're hunting, but your deer hunt is over for that sit. That's why we kill every hog we see without exception.

I've got a friend that raises some heritage breed hogs on his hunting property as a side hobby. He grazes them about 2 pigs/acre and supplement feeds them. I know domestics aren't wild, but he keeps his in with 3' woven wire and good posts. He can be gone for days at a time without checking them, and they never try to get out. They also have tons to graze (including pig specific food plots) on in there if the feeders go empty.

I just wondered if the same level of fencing couldn't keep pigs out as well as in.

 

[Drycreek]

Mark, under normal circumstances a hog wire fence will keep them out, but feral hogs, as you alluded to, can be abnormal ! I have a hog wire fence around two sides of my place, mostly to keep neighbors on four wheelers honest. I have a couple places that hogs have forced their way under it and one place that they literally blew a hole in it. My theory on that one, since there's an oilfield lease road parallel to my fence, is that someone drove down that road and surprised a big hog and he just ran through it getting away. A 250/300 lb. hog is a strong animal and tougher than hell. My buddy once buried a crossbow bolt in one to the fletching right through his lungs and I shot him with a 6.8 SPC 600 yards away and he still ran 75 more yards before he died. TUFF ENUFF !

 

[TreeDaddy]

Interesting observations, Drycreek

i also notice that they don't root my plots.....they do graze/feed on them

They wreak havoc on tree cages unless secured to ground

Yard looks like a demolition zone

bill

 

[DrDirtNap]

They may not root in food plots all the time but sometimes they do



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[SwampCat]

I dont have hogs root very much in my plots except in fairly soft dirt. I run my feeders up until mid August and then turn them off so the hogs disperse before I start planting end of Sept. i think new, well constructed field fence would pretty well keep them out - as long as you didnt plant corn. Hogs eat my bean seeds right after planting. But they dont do much damage to established plantings other than graze on them like a deer. My hogs dont displace my deer any distance. They tend not to graze in the same food plot or feeder at the same time - but they will both keep using the area - just at different times. My hogs are much more nocturnal than my deer. I do get pictures of both at the same time several times each year.

 

[Drycreek]

They may not root in food plots all the time but sometimes they do
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That would have me camped out with my night vision equipped AR ! I've had a very small amount of rootings in food plots, but nothing like that. That spot looks like other spots on the place I sold though. I had three spots regularly rooted up on that place, and both had behia grass growing there. I'm told they like behia grass roots, but IDK. Sounds plausable though.

And yeah, I planted corn once and they ate the seeds that night. I've had them eat 90% of the beans I've planted, but I've always gotten away with IC peas. Don't ask why but they don't eat them like they do beans.