Hogs and feed pens

[Ricky T]

Any of y'all had hogs so bad you couldn't stop 'em with cattle or hog panel pens? Place I'm looking at has a bunch of BIG hogs and the ground is sandy loam. I'm afraid there's so many they'll root up under the panel. I guess I could bury fencing on the outside like you do for a digging dog. Anybody had those kind of problems?

[Phdan]

Shoot more, dig less.

[Mary]

Any of y'all had hogs so bad you couldn't stop 'em with cattle or hog panel pens?

Hummm.... I've posted this before, and I feel your pain!
Stinkin' Hog!

[Graybow]

Some of the big ones will jump over the hog panels!!

[Texastaxi]

Some of the big ones will jump over the hog panels!!

No way!
I'd have to see a video of that to belive it ... oh ... yeah, I remember your video, Mary!

Either start trapping them or hunt em' hard and push them to the nieghbors pasture!

[TimHicks]

Hogs wont dig under the panels...if they are wired and tposted enough ,,They just wont root down..unless they can push up..a good t posted utility panel..will stop most hogs but you need to make it wide so the deer can get in,,a cattle panel will work if its tposted evry 4 feet or so and wired tight..again they will not root under it..sand or no sand

[Clark]

yep.
I put a corn feeder close to one side of a pen to throw a little corn outside.
I wanted to feed fawns that wouldn't/couldn't hop in the pen and to shoot pigs. Hindsight, probably not a good idea.
Hogs constantly run the deer off and eventually dug under the panels and little ones were getting in.
Had to make a concrete footer along that side of the pen.
Doubt you can see it in these pics, but the little black holes along the panels are rat nests under the concrete.
No problems since. Good luck with the pigs and remember.
When it comes to pigs, you got to regulate.

[Chew]

The hogs on our Rocksprings lease two years ago were the most destructive things I've ever seen. Out of 10 hunters, probably 8 of them had their feeders knocked over and pens destroyed. They rooted up small boulders and moved them to get at corn. They tore up a turkey feeder that my uncle had that threw milo. A feeder pen was just a "suggestion" to them. Not a formal barricade.
I was lucky...I was 5 miles from camp (and the river) and they weren't out that far. I had to deal with aoudads.

On another note.....I'll be in your backyard tomorrow. My son is a freshman playing on the JV baseball team for Splendora. They're playing a tournament in Liberty starting tomorrow. Stop by the high school and say high at 2 pm!