This whole hog trapping isn't working out

[RaginCagin]

They wont go in the typical rectangle traps at our lease with the drop gates. We tried everything in the last 2 years. Corn, sour corn, jello, dog food, rice bran it didnt matter they were not going in them and we had never trapped before to make them educated. Our neighbors finally went to a round shape made from cattle panels where the last 2 panels kind of over lap with a small opening they squeeze into. Works like a hoop net or fish trap. No clue why this works better but they have caught a ton of them this way in the last year. We will be making some this year.

[doug]

I would take the trap and stick it back in the brush. Be nice to have a feeder throwing next to it but not always necessay. If it has a floor try and cover some of that with loose dirt. Finally when it gets tough and they appear "educated" or trap wise be EXTREMELY scent conscious! Wear rubber boots and gloves and dont touch anything!

I'm no expert but have trapped more than my share and this works for me. Good luck!

[Bazo]

Your trap might be too small. Or your pigs are not hungry enough to go in. Several different factors could be involved.

I've been thinking of making a pen trap with a drop door. That will need to wait until next year.

This trap is a 8'x4'x4'

[Sideler]

Push that trap into those trees in the background and zip tie some brush to the front of it.

[Bazo]

Another thing you might try if you can find it is rice bran I have a pic somewhere of a big hog laying down eating it.

Look at the head on that sucker.

[Abilenehogman1]

add 1/4 cup of diesel to 5 gal. bucket of corn and pour in trap.

Eat pigs.

[Kurdawg]

I would take the trap and stick it back in the brush. Be nice to have a feeder throwing next to it but not always necessay. If it has a floor try and cover some of that with loose dirt. Finally when it gets tough and they appear "educated" or trap wise be EXTREMELY scent conscious! Wear rubber boots and gloves and dont touch anything!

I'm no expert but have trapped more than my share and this works for me. Good luck!

This!!!

[Devin]

I had some cage smart one's last year that I tried all the above on diesel, strawberry, vanilla, syrup, peanut butter, soured, etc.

I finally caught them on a flower bouquet I'd bought my wife that was getting old..... go figure. Sometimes, completely out of the box things will work.

[Bazo]

I had some cage smart one's last year that I tried all the above on diesel, strawberry, vanilla, syrup, peanut butter, soured, etc.

I finally caught them on a flower bouquet I'd bought my wife that was getting old..... go figure. Sometimes, completely out of the box things will work.

I had told my wife to stop throwing the kids leftovers off their plates away and keep them in a bucket to try that out. But I haven't gotten to that point yet.

[unclefish]

Those hogs have likely seen a trap like that before. Sometimes educated hogs are simply un-catchable.

Try a different style trap.

[Wits_End]

If you have a wire floor, that will sometimes get them.
Put it closer in some brush.
Dig up some dirt and toss it inside the trap to cover wire floor
Throw some grass and leaves on top of the dirt.
I scatter corn lightly all over the area and then put a light trail into the trap with the mother load almost at the very back.

I have caught many in these style traps, but they are not as good as the round pen traps. Seems like once I caught a small group, they wouldn't touch it for a few weeks. I mainly just played around with it when I was at the lease. I prefer shooting them in the middle of the night.

[Pushbutton2]

What about Vanilla?

[smokeless]

The acorn crop this hear isn't helping. I was on the east side of 79 in Gause at thanksgiving and acorns were everywhere .

[Bazo]

The acorn crop this hear isn't helping. I was on the east side of 79 in Gause at thanksgiving and acorns were everywhere .

That's true. Under all the big oaks it looks like a bomb went off.

[RoosterCogburn]

Throw some brush on and around it, sometimes pigs won't walk in just a cage sitting out in the open