Gents I'm going on a hunt next week and the property has an old pig trap on it. The property owner wants to fix it up and see if we can trap a few. Besides meat, what do you guys use for bait?

Soured grain works well, as does plain old sweet feed used for livestock.

Raspberry & strawberry jello mixed with corn works well

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Bakes,
In Oz, animal carcass worked the best for me when whacking your porkers. We used brumbies, and donks.

Vegetarian bait only works in the U.S. where veganism is popular. I tried the jello and corn without results on Niihau island. Sheep and other pig carcasses are the best for the predominantly carnivorous porkers there.

Geoff

If the pigs in your area are not used to grain, then go with what they are used to.

If you want to experiment, use dry corn and pour diesel on it. Lots of folks use that combination quite successfully, but pigs here in Texas are used to grain since so many folks run deer feeders.

It is funny, but in all my years hunting and various amounts of research I have done, I have never heard any mention of completely carnivorous pigs. Everything I have read indicates they are omnivores.

Thanks for the replies gents

Now I've heard of the diesel thing. Why is that attractive to pigs?

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Thanks for the replies gents

Now I've heard of the diesel thing. Why is that attractive to pigs?

It is a lower octane rating than petrol.

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It is a lower octane rating than petrol.

Good answer, but I don't think that is why.

From what I have heard from trappers in this area, it has more to do with the smell of the stuff. For some reason it attracts them better than the jello.

Another thing that will work, is to sour corn/wheat or maize-milo in a closed 5 gallon bucket of water. Let it set in a sunny place a few days then hold your breath as you pour it in the trap.

another thing about dieseled corn is that you dont have to worry about other critters being attracted to it. at least this is what i've been told. i've never used it myself

i have tried a number of different things, including corn soured with cheap beer. i have found that the cheapest, smelliest dry dog food you can buy works best.

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another thing about dieseled corn is that you dont have to worry about other critters being attracted to it.

I have also heard that from the more active trappers in this area. After having had to fish a real unhappy spike white tail out of a hog trap, I can see why figuring out something to keep deer from going into a trap is important.

Feed corn on the ground works great. Just ask all the pigs that come to our deer feeders!

Last winter I tried baiting with a corn feeder and sour corn from a bucket, but didn't get any hogs coming in, although at the time there was fresh rooting nearby. Don't know why. Only deer and coons showed up, proven by the game camera.

The surrounding area is covered with peanut, soybean and corn fields, already harvested by October, but the visitation by critters, including hogs, starts in summer while the crops are green. In places there was a distinct trail enter and exit from those fields, near the woods.

Also, last year Jager Pro was doing a grant funded trapping program around here, and from a reliable land owner source I heard that they caught enough pigs and hogs to thin the population significantly. I haven't seen any hog sign in months.

KB

KB, here in Texas at least, trapping is the most effective method of reducing pig numbers in any given area, but it works two ways from what I have seen.

The pigs that are caught are taken out and the ones not caught get trap shy and move to new areas where trapping is not taking place.

I have seen the same thing happen around here, if the groups are shot into very much or sometimes only a time or two, they will simply move out of the area, sometimes or months.

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Originally posted by Bakes:
Gents I'm going on a hunt next week and the property has an old pig trap on it. The property owner wants to fix it up and see if we can trap a few. Besides meat, what do you guys use for bait?

Hogs like to join with others of their species.
I would suggest baiting the hog trap with Women's Libers. The Libers look like and sound like hogs. I would guess they would smell the same after on hot Texas summer day.

Jim

that's the nice thing about cheap, smelly dry dog food. deer don't eat it.

From my experience, the only reason Texans say to use sour corn or wheat is because that way they can wink and tell everyone it is for the pigs and not their stills.

Hush!!! Don't tell everyone everything you know!!!

My pigs here in S. Central Tx don't like soured corn. I poured out about 100-150 lbs of wet, sour corn out of one of my trap feeders that is less than 50 yds from the primary feeder. The primary feeder is downwind of the corn pile, and after 2 nights it is all still in a pile undisturbed, although pigs have been at the feeder both nights--

Try raw molasses if you can get it. Hogs here flock to it.

dustoffer:

Shut the feeder off man!!

George

Regarding the diesel fuel attractant...When I hog hunted along Lake Texoma the guide "planted" several creosote-soaked telephone pole sections ( about 4feet high) and those hogs rubbed them into an hourglass shape, go figure!

They do like rubbing on power poles, my guess is the creosote helps get rid of some of the skin parasites.

Here in Arkansas,we had some in a pen a few years ago when it was legal to transport feral hogs, and we trapped them with both soured corn and dry corn and couldn't tell the difference, but I was trapping beavers at the time and they loved the carcases. I also fed them road killed deer and they loved that with a side of corn.

You can also take a burlap bag and wire it to a small tree, then soak it with used motor oil. The hogs will smell it and use the motor oil to get rid of the fleas and ticks.

The only issue with this is that there is no way to predict when a hog is going to show up, which is not the case with a feeder throwing bait at a pre-determined time.

Ol Roy dog food from Walmart. It stinks something awful and pigs love it. Once they get wind of it, they'll come running. And it's pretty cheap.

LWD

The dead pig carcasses work real well here in FL. Kill them and leave them laying there. In a couple days they'll be smelling pretty rank and drawing pigs like flys on crap.

We'd shoot some big pigs in the Northern Territory but the other pigs wouldn't come near the carcass. They would consume a donkey carcass quick as a flash however.

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Ol Roy dog food from Walmart. It stinks something awful and pigs love it. Once they get wind of it, they'll come running. And it's pretty cheap.

LWD

that's the stuff i was talking about in an earlier post. cheap and effective