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I recently came across an interesting suggestion: Scatter commercial dry dogfood around your deer feeders in the off-season to better attract hogs. I've got to assume that hogs would like "puppy chow" just fine, but do they like it any better than corn? Anyone tried it?
 
Posts: 13274 | Location: Henly, TX, USA | Registered: 04 April 2001Reply With Quote
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I actually tried it here a couple years ago, and it worked quite well. A large bag had taken on a little moisture from the bottom and began to mildew, so I hauled it out to the pasture. The next morning, the area looked like a land mine had exploded, and every nugget of dog food was gone.

I've tried it a few times since then with similar results.


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Posts: 9452 | Location: Shiner TX USA | Registered: 19 March 2002Reply With Quote
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Bobby,

Your spoiled dogfood story reminds me of an experience two years ago: About 10 shooters were dove hunting a grain field on a Saturday afternoon and the doves were really good, so nearly everyone had a limit at the end of the day. As is customary, we all gathered around the pickup tailgates at sundown to field dress the doves, tossing the wings and entrals on the ground in a pile. Returning the next morning, there was nothing left of the pile of wings and entrals other than a few stray feathers and a bunch of hog tracks.
 
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Hogs are definitely opportunists, and in a few short weeks, they'll be making an impact on fawns. In fact, at this time of year, we try and really put the pressure on them to give the fawns a better shot at survival.

But the hogs are like the fire ants; they are definitely here to stay.


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I have field dressed pigs late in the afternoon, left the gut pile out in the open along with bits of hide and hair, and come back the next morning to find the entire gut pile gone. Pigs are very much omnivorous and opportunistic. As much as I love hunting them it is a real shame they are here...
 
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i throw out scraps around the house whenever we run low on pork. believe me, pigs will eat anything. on a dove shoot once next to a large hog pen, you could forget it if the dove you shot fell in the pen. for sure the hogs would beat you to the dove.


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