Feeder Pen Question

[cashcropper]

Rip a panel and it will be 27 or so inches. This will keep out 95% of pigs. Since i started doing this i will have pictures every night standing at the fence but have not had the first one in the pen. Get ling t posts and cut in two for more coverage or get the shortest ones you can find and drive down flush with top strand of panel.Mine use several panels.

[mikemorvan]

In the 16 panel, round, camp. I can't find it now, but i have read research that states round is better. SS zip ties are a game changer for ease. Make 2 gates, (overlap panels and tie loosely w/ wire on one end, and snap latches on the operational end), and you have a drive through pen for easy feeding. The bigger the pen the better for sure. Use 50" panels, and cut down lower sections where you want the deer to jump in and out.

[Texashookset]

In the 16 panel, round, camp. I can't find it now, but i have read research that states round is better. SS zip ties are a game changer for ease. Make 2 gates, (overlap panels and tie loosely w/ wire on one end, and snap latches on the operational end), and you have a drive through pen for easy feeding. The bigger the pen the better for sure. Use 50" panels, and cut down lower sections where you want the deer to jump in and out.

The same set ups we build. 16 panels round 50”. I cut the top three squares vertically down about 3-4’ wide every third panel or so. I bend them outward so that they’re about 32” tall in the gaps so the deer jump in easy but keeps the bigger pigs from being tempted as the bend sticks out at a 45 degree angle down. When they move cows thru the pastures I bend them back up (when given a few days notice, 3.5 hour trip from the house) and wire them back to 50”. Wild *** cows on the place and they will jump/crush the 50” panels if you keep your pellets or CS to close to the perimeter. They seem to not want to get to it as bad if it’s further from them. Bad pic but from cam outside the pen facing a cut down. Not bullet proof of course but have had good luck doing this the past few years til this year. I didn’t get down there in time to lift the cut outs back up after the ranch said the cows were getting moved through that pasture and they crushed two panels where the cut outs were.

Also fyi those stainless zip ties are pretty slick (buddy uses them, I haven’t yet) but they’ll slice the **** out of you without gloves when sucking them down if not careful.

Can’t post pic of it, I don’t know how.

[HOOKNBULLET2]

We build ours with 20 hog panels each. It makes a 100’ diameter pen. We put a Lamco low and throw feeder in the center. That Lamco feeder slings corn 50’ which keeps all the corn just inside the pen.

[marshman]

More great info! Just trying to keep hogs out, there are no cattle or any type livestock on my lease.

[marshman]

This is true. The first ones I ever built were four panels…..16’ to a side. I was keeping cows out so I made them strong with sucker rod and 16” up off the ground, (no hogs). Deer went under them mostly but could easily jump them.

The ones I build now are just 8 panel circles, deer get in them as easily as they would if they were an acre. Eight panels make about a 40’ circle and very little corn lands outside the pen. Hog panel high with a T post at each end and one in the middle.

Is the pic you posted an 8 panel pen?

[stan v]

We hunt East Texas and very narrow lanes with small openings. We just put 2 pens up, based off the Texas A&M video posted above in this thread. We used 6 16' hog panels. One was a circle of about 28' across, the other was a 16' x 32' rectangle, it was all the room we had for this one. We'll see what happens.

[Smart]

Feeder Pen Question

Put me in the 10 panels or more and round club. Bigger is better. My two are 20 panels and goat wire that it 35 yards by 60 yards wide and 40” high. My buddy’s two are similar. My deer pops are high so I like a lot of room for all the deer (and turkey)that want in to move around freely and not feel confined or bullied. I have corn, timed protein, water totes with a trough and alfalfa in them. (Cottonseed when it’s affordable and worth the *** whippin’.) The big goat wire one has my blinds inside it as well.

Panels are the 48-50” cattle panels because they were $3-4 cheaper than hog panels and we’ve had issues with cattle during the droughts (like now) jumping in over hog panels. I cut the cattle panels down one section all the way around with bolt cutters and then cut two small strategic jump overs down another square that when the deer jump in they are broadside and can be shot. I’d say 95% of the deer use those jump overs to get in and out unless startled.

[flywise]

[QUOTE=jt400;16257457]This could not be any more false[/QUOTE

How’s that?
We had feeder pens around wind activated feeders in the 80’s that were probably 10x10 or less. For 30 years there has been a pen being used that is 5 , 12 foot panels. It is always full of deer. Are the deer on the ranch I hunt just dumb?

[RLB]

What's a feeder?

[jt400]

I've found for the way I like to set my spots up that 12 is the magic number. Anything less is just too small if your area has a good amount of deer. Plus a good amound of corn will still go out causing your hog problem to remain. The only reason i don't like to go bigger is I like to set my shots up for right at 20 yards. Much bigger than 12 means that when the deer walk around the pen they become danger close because you are so close to the edge. Much bigger than 14 you have to be in the pen with them to be 20 yards from your feeder. I know that's possible if you build a huge pen but I'd prefer to be out of it. Build it round, overlap a section and build a gate as others have stated. Don't go cheap and try to build it 8 or 10. You'll regret it. Its not worth the few dollars in savings for the effect it will have on your hunting. If I were rifle hunting I'd build them with 30 panels.

[trophy8]

[quote=flywise;16258709]

This could not be any more false[/QUOTE

How’s that?
We had feeder pens around wind activated feeders in the 80’s that were probably 10x10 or less. For 30 years there has been a pen being used that is 5 , 12 foot panels. It is always full of deer. Are the deer on the ranch I hunt just dumb?

You very loudly share you disdain for feeders and feeders as often as you can. And have for a long time. You don’t get input on HOW to feed when you do that lol. Pick a side. Stick to it.

Your “pen full of deer” isn’t what many of us are after. It’s the size of the deer in the pen and how often and how long they stay that counts a bunch. Mature bucks can already be skittish of feeders. Small pens don’t help.

[flywise]

[quote=trophy8;16259544]

You very loudly share you disdain for feeders and feeders as often as you can. And have for a long time. You don’t get input on HOW to feed when you do that lol. Pick a side. Stick to it.

Your “pen full of deer” isn’t what many of us are after. It’s the size of the deer in the pen and how often and how long they stay that counts a bunch. Mature bucks can already be skittish of feeders. Small pens don’t help.

Lol, predictable
I don’t have disdain for feeders I just think they are a waste Of time and money and how is that relevant to personal experience? You don’t have to reply to everything I type, it kind of makes you seem petty and juvenile.

[flywise]

Oh and please learn how to use the quote feature

[Smart]

Feeder Pen Question

Oh and please learn how to use the quote feature

In his defense you jacked up the quote feature first in post 39… he just quoted your jacked up quote[emoji15][emoji1]