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    Need Help with our hog trap ......

    We built a pen to help reduce the hogs on our lease. We have caught and killed a few. If we're not at the lease, we leave the door open and allow hogs to move in and out freely. However, when we go to the lease and set the trap door and add feed the hogs don't have anything to do with the pen.

    I'm wondering if our scent is scaring them off? Could it be a scent problem?
    Or something else?

    #2
    Are your cameras telling you they are going in/out regularly when you are not there?

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      #3
      If they are going in regularly then try to be as scent free as possible, and don't add any extra corn. "If" they are moving in and out freely like you said.
      they may not be going in it at all if you don't have cameras watching it.

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        #4
        How big is your trap? Also put a feeder on the trap so that they get used to corn there every day. They will go in and scent won't be a problem. Push style gates are the best because they keep deer out.

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          #5
          Here is my most successful trap---note the feeder inside, and it is about 75' from a muddy tank they love to wallow in. Count for this year is 190-ish. I also have a friend who runs an ag supply house and I am "gifted" any bags of feed that get wet and moldy. I use it to lay a trail from 4 directions to the trap doors and I do bait heavily when the cams show lots of activity. Another thing I have done in my other pen is put a riding mower tire inside and put corn it in and set it against the trip rope. When they get after that tire they can't help but tripping the trap. I have found that lots of corn between the door and the trip rope helps to get multiples inside as the first few coming in get hung on the corn inside the door and that gives time for the rest of the sounder to get in. Most I've caught in the trap in the picture at one catch is 18.

          Last edited by dustoffer; 12-27-2019, 03:02 PM.

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            #6
            We have a push gate and leave it open when we aren't there.

            The pen is in a circle and 12' across. We leave a 6' (4") pipe filled with corn in the pen.

            We do have a camera and have plenty of pics of groups of hogs going in and out.

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              #7
              I know you can catch them like you are doing it.
              A timed feeder would dramatically increase your odds.
              It's a financial comittment but a cellphone camera and a remote (cellphone) controlled gate makes it about as foolproof as it can be. You could set it up with your existing pen.
              This sequence was in just over a weeks time. 14 of 14 caught.
              Attached Files

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                #8
                We live 2 hours away from our lease so we don't want pigs trapped if we're not there to take care of them.
                The last hog we caught weighed 250+ and would have tore a feeder inside the pen up!

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                  #9
                  Then get a directional feeder/ Put it outside the pen. And face it so it throws feed in the pen.

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