One of our year round farm trapping clients contacted us about a wild hog sounder taking over one of his deer feeders. Josey responded to the property and began scouting. He immediately started putting together the reason for this intrusion, and a plan to stop it.
The story begins with a freshly harvested peanut field adjacent to a densely wooded area. The perfect place for a sounder to make their “bedroom”. The trail leads to a small fed pond along an opening in a fence. Beyond the fence is plenty of cover and the beckoning deer feeder on the farmers deer hunting grounds. The area has all the necessary components for happy feral hogs. Dense cover for bedding down. Water supply. An opening to intentionally appetizing feed from multiple deer feeders.
To distract the feral hogs from the feeders farther afield, we need to entice them to a location of our choosing. Josey found a location that has cover, a water source and an existing choke point in their travel corridor.
He installed the bait site near the water, at the small opening in the fence. The sounder is accustomed to pausing here to cross the opening, so the eventual addition of our trap panels will not cause them distress. In their pause to proceed, their interest should be drawn to our irresistible
Texas Hog Bait and corn mixture. Once they are conditioned to our bait site we will begin adding trap components and eventually trap the entire group.
This time of year can be extremely difficult to trap hogs. However, with attention to details and good scouting it is not impossible.
In the video below, Josey shares a view of the bait site he established. He follows the sounder’s travel corridor and straight to the deer feeder, sharing details along the way.
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