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We are starting to see more and more hogs on our land. We have traps baited with corn and the hogs aren't eating the corn. I have a camera set up that shows the hogs completely ignoring the corn. I have never seen anything like it.
The deer sure like the corn though and we have caught a couple deer in the trap.
It appears to me the hogs are grubbing brush piles for snakes, lizards, etc.
Any advice for bait other than corn? Maybe old fish oil?
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Mix some diesel with the corn.
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I have heard some guys say that they quit putting diesel on their corn when they saw deer on game cameras eating the tainted corn. They were not sure about the health of their deer if they were going to eat a lot of petroleum.
I have never heard of a pig that would not eat corn. Perhaps they are trap shy? Will they eat corn at other locations without traps?
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I have heard some guys say that they quit putting diesel on their corn when they saw deer on game cameras eating the tainted corn. They were not sure about the health of their deer if they were going to eat a lot of petroleum.
I have never heard of a pig that would not eat corn. Perhaps they are trap shy? Will they eat corn at other locations without traps? We have been putting diesel in and around the trap in an effort to keep the deer out of it. May add more. I have heard of people pouring motor oil too. Seems hogs like the petroleum. We have also placed corn with a camera near fresh and active hog sign (away from any traps) and the hogs just pass right by it. Craziest thing I have ever seen. It is like they are only eating snakes and such. I thought about putting some buffalo or carp in a trap...
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I know nothing about trapping hogs but maybe adding hog s hit to inside your traps as a confidence attraction along with bait. If the hogs are corn shy try staking down some roadkill inside the trap too.
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Try something sweet and smelly, like grape koolaid powder or molasses.
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Try something sweet and smelly, like grape koolaid powder or molasses. That works too ^^^^.
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Ask Hanco, he is the subject matter expert of trapping hogs.
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You might try a different bait. I have used sweet potatoes, deer guts, and a bunch of other stuff. Hogs will eat just about anything including each other.
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what hogs eat is some thing in their place of the country . what they eat in FL GA TX TEN might not work were you live . peoples sent at the trap is the biggest prob. I have found in 50 years on trapping hogs . don't take a bunch of people to the trap or were non rubber boots or drive up to the trap when checking it.
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I rub corn oil all over my shoes and hands, park a hunerd yards away, caught 15 this weekend. I use plain corn, traps have a feeder that goes off once a day, so they are used to coming in there.
Good luck!
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I would suspect human scent is why OP’s hogs won’t eat his corn. They have great noses. Agree, them passing on corn just doesn’t sound like them. They eat about anything, including dead hog carcasses. Nasty critters.
Trappers locally draw blood on dead ones. Good bud reports that over half were positive for Brucellosis. You don’t wanna get that. Bad stuff. Wear gloves.
I shoot’em, generally don’t eat’em. Well maybe young ones cooked well.
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I will give you guys the benefit of doubt on the scent. Issue. You are probably right. Although, I am not doing anything differently than we used to and never had a problem catching them before. Albeit on a different property.
I might hang a feeder above the trap and lock the door open for a couple weeks. Get them used to it all before setting the trap door.
I don't like these traps because they are enclosed at the top. Keeping the deer out of them has proven damn near impossible. One buck already tire himself up pretty good.
I would have never thought a hog would care more about scent than a deer. The farm is a heavy agriculture area so it isn't a lack of food issue.
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Pigs and Aoudads have better noses than deer from what I’ve seen. I’ve had deer walk over where I’ve walked, pigs do a double back flip when they crossed it an hour later. I had a guy that traps pigs for people tell me he mixes old motor oil and diesel with corn, pigs eat it, roll in the oily residue, deer won’t go in. I cut this trap down recently, cause I caught a couple of deer, was 5’, now 4’ tall.
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Hanco, shoot me a picture of your trap door and trigger mechanism when you can, if you remember next time you are there.
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