i have 5500 acres of prime river bottom swamp land in richland county, south carolina. the problem is, everytime i try something to help the deer and bring more deer in, the hogs we have eat everything up and tear the place up, we are way over populated with hogs and only have a few deer but its very far inbetween when you do see a deer, so what can i do and put out that will help the deer out and the hogs wont messed with? since march i have taken over 40+ hogs and a ton more i could have taken but i am sick and tired of shooting pigs, cause the more i shoot em, the more i see. i have tried food plots, salt licks and among a number of other things. a 50lb salt block may last 2 to 3days till the hogs eat the whole thing up..
Have you tried trapping them or getting someone else to? If you have that many someone who traps and sells hogs might be willing to come and “clean it up” for you. Build a few of those huge traps for 30-40 hogs, get rid of them, then let the deer move back into the area.
the land owners wont allow us to use any types of traps, dogs or etc to get rid of the hogs, but they want us to be a trophy club. but how can you trophy hunt when you never see any deer cause of the hogs.
have you tried building large pens around your feed stations out of hog pannels and T post every 5-6 feet and one strand of barbwire on top of that. Even try puting one strand of barb wire around the bottom to keep them from trying to root under the pannels. the trick is to make it big enough where they can not get any corn or mineral blocks that are put out. If the can not get close enough to what you have in the pen then they will eventualy stop comeing to that area.
A common problem, especially in the southeast where I work with allot of hunting properties. All of the suggestions I’ve read thus far are right on. Wild Hogs are highly prolific making population control very difficult. A sow can have 24 offspring in one year (not likely but possible - two litters of 12), conceive only 3 days after giving birth, and breed year-round. I don’t have to comment on the mess they can make of a management program using food plots and feeders. We use cotton seed as a supplemental feed on our TX ranches and on other properties. We find that hogs tend to lay off of that feed as opposed to pellets, corn, soybeans, etc. I do know of one AL land manager who is capturing small females, putting a dog tracking collar on them, releasing them, then tracking them down 24 hours later when they are back with a large pack of hogs...you know what happens then just try not to shoot your informant and make sure this is legal in your area.
Not according to any of our findings. Cotton seed has been used as feed for cattle for decades and that’s where we stumbled upon it for whitetails. I have read and heard of some slight reproductive side effects in cattle when fed high quantities of cotton seed but not for whitetails. We feed cotton seed year-round with a mineral supplement added. With a population density on these ranches of 1 deer/ 3 acres obviously there are no reproductive problems. Of course we only use supplemental feed to support a year round HIGH quality food plot program and as a fail safe against major drought and crop loss. The food plots drive our herds to incredible levels of density, health, and quality.
Corn of course works but for wild hogs the nastier the bait the better. I like to sour corn in a plastic container by filling it 2/3 with corn, filling that with water, then setting it in the sun for a few days. I’ve used rotting onions also with success when a farmer friend of mine came up with some.
In the texas hillcountry we have always use strawberry jello. just pour the powder over the corn. in south texas I have a friend that uses diesel fuel. just pour it over the corn. He says that it keeps the deer out out of the traps and the hogs think it is a dewormer??? I did not belive it till I saw it. It worked great.
On our property and other properties that I have access to here in Texas, I have tried many methods to get rid of them. (i.e. killing, trapping, fencing around feeders). Such methods seem to only help momentarily since I only kill to eat, trap to sell or send off to who’s wanting them, and fencing around feeders only seem to help temporarily only because they will mow it down. I have reinforced my feeder pens so many times (t-post and hog panel method) that it almost becomes pointless because if they’re hungry, they are getting in no matter what. Has anyone tried electrical wire around the base of their feeder pens, and if so, have you seen progress?
i live in southern ms and when any of the local hunting clubs have a hog problem they do alot of the same ideas posted before but the one time i helped out we had a father son hog hunt in the off season. i do know that mississippi has a nunscences law with on certian animals which allows you to hunt with few restriction but if it is the same in your area maybe you might want to think of something like that. ill even come stack a truck load of hogs just for the shear fun of moving targets with my bow.
