Posted: 11/17/2010 6:25:34 PM EDT
| Wanting to put one or two hog traps on my friend's land. We know the pigs come thru here, but we're never there at the right time. Anything I should know? Can I just buy one of those traps that are selling on craigslist in Houston and Austin? It looks like people just make them in their fab/welding shop. Do they pretty much work the same? What about the ones in the stores? I live in Houston and he lives in Austin, and the land is between us off hwy290. |
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Wanting to put one or two hog traps on my friend's land. We know the pigs come thru here, but we're never there at the right time. Anything I should know? Can I just buy one of those traps that are selling on craigslist in Houston and Austin? It looks like people just make them in their fab/welding shop. Do they pretty much work the same? What about the ones in the stores? I live in Houston and he lives in Austin, and the land is between us off hwy290. if you are on a budget... or want to be on a budget... look into how to build a figure 6 trap http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=how+to+build+a+figure+6+hog+trap http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1349818/1 Flintknapper has some megaposts here... http://www.texashuntingchat.com/hog-traps-trapping-hogs/ |
Friend of mind made his with a small welder. They are about 4ft wide by 8ft. long and about 3 ft. high and the main one has a small deer feeder mounted on top. Just angle iron and some hog panel. If you put out traps, just make sure you don't leave it set unless you will be able to check it in the next day or so. We went out one weekend and discovered someone had left the trap set the last time we were out there about 2 weeks prior. 3 dead hogs, one cannibalized, was the nastiest thing I have ever smelled. And it wasn't any fun tying a rope to them to drag them out of the trap. 
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http://feralhogs.tamu.edu/control-and-management/trap-design/
I was in East Texas for an ag conference this summer and Billy Higginbotham put on a presentation about this. His theory was that small traps worked wonders to catch one or two pigs, but it usually educated 4 or 5 other pigs that stood outside the trap and got away. His method is to build a large corral with a trap door, leave the trap door open with bait for 10 days with a camera. When the camera shows that all of the hogs are going into the corral to eat the bait, then set the trap door and catch all the pigs. (put the door trigger on the far end of the pen) He also advocated a round corral, because hogs would climb a cattle panel if they found a corner. I figured for $400 to $500 you could build a rig to hold 20 hogs at once. And there are buying stations out there who will buy everything you don't want. |
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http://feralhogs.tamu.edu/control-and-management/trap-design/ I was in East Texas for an ag conference this summer and Billy Higginbotham put on a presentation about this. His theory was that small traps worked wonders to catch one or two pigs, but it usually educated 4 or 5 other pigs that stood outside the trap and got away. His method is to build a large corral with a trap door, leave the trap door open with bait for 10 days with a camera. When the camera shows that all of the hogs are going into the corral to eat the bait, then set the trap door and catch all the pigs. (put the door trigger on the far end of the pen) He also advocated a round corral, because hogs would climb a cattle panel if they found a corner. I figured for $400 to $500 you could build a rig to hold 20 hogs at once. And there are buying stations out there who will buy everything you don't want. This is correct. If you want to catch 2-5 or so hogs then a small portable trap will work fine. If you want to catch them all then you need a much bigger trap. We commonly catch 5 hogs in a 4x8 trap but that's usually about the max. In the bigger traps we've caught as many as 22 at a time. We got 16 in one night just a few weeks ago. BEFORE AFTER Here is a smaller round trap that we attached a box trap to. The hogs will get trapped in the bigger trap and by the time you show up they will all have worked themselves into the smaller box trap and it makes it much easier to load them up. |
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wow that's just cool. guess i'll try to see if my buddy is up for building one. we could really make this work! anyone wanna help? the land is in Paige and we'll split the pork!
also, with regards to trapping pigs, this is one of those times where i will fight my longhorn instincts and trust the aggie 
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Friend of mind made his with a small welder. They are about 4ft wide by 8ft. long and about 3 ft. high and the main one has a small deer feeder mounted on top. Just angle iron and some hog panel. If you put out traps, just make sure you don't leave it set unless you will be able to check it in the next day or so. We went out one weekend and discovered someone had left the trap set the last time we were out there about 2 weeks prior. 3 dead hogs, one cannibalized, was the nastiest thing I have ever smelled. And it wasn't any fun tying a rope to them to drag them out of the trap. Thats bad. Nothing deserves to go out like that. |
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Friend of mind made his with a small welder. They are about 4ft wide by 8ft. long and about 3 ft. high and the main one has a small deer feeder mounted on top. Just angle iron and some hog panel. If you put out traps, just make sure you don't leave it set unless you will be able to check it in the next day or so. We went out one weekend and discovered someone had left the trap set the last time we were out there about 2 weeks prior. 3 dead hogs, one cannibalized, was the nastiest thing I have ever smelled. And it wasn't any fun tying a rope to them to drag them out of the trap. Thats bad. Nothing deserves to go out like that. Trust me, even though they are nasty destructive creatures, we aren't into making any animal suffer like that. We hardly ever set the trap unless we want to catch one and BBQ it the next day. We actually have a safety chain wrapped around the door holding it open to prevent it accidentally closing on any animals (deer will kneel down to eat the corn inside) when the trap isn't set. We think the boys were messing around with it that weekend and they got an earfull after we found the dead pigs. |
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Friend of mind made his with a small welder. They are about 4ft wide by 8ft. long and about 3 ft. high and the main one has a small deer feeder mounted on top. Just angle iron and some hog panel. If you put out traps, just make sure you don't leave it set unless you will be able to check it in the next day or so. We went out one weekend and discovered someone had left the trap set the last time we were out there about 2 weeks prior. 3 dead hogs, one cannibalized, was the nastiest thing I have ever smelled. And it wasn't any fun tying a rope to them to drag them out of the trap. Thats bad. Nothing deserves to go out like that. We latch ours open when we're not going to be checking them since they're continuous catch traps and they can still trap even after they've been tripped. Anyway, the guy that owned the land called me and told me that he had tied them open so I didn't need to go out and do it. I thought, "Great! One less thing I have to go do today!". Unfortunately, instead of using the chain link to latch it open he tied the door open with a piece of weed eater string. Five hogs from 100 to 150lbs each or so made their way in and of course the weed eater string came untied and they were in there for 5 days before we found them. It was terrible. The smell, the maggots, the black beetles....their hooves were falling off, the meat would just pull off the bone if you tried to drag them out by a leg. It was the grossest thing I've ever had to mess with. Now only I or my hunting partner are allowed to mess with the traps. |
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Here is a smaller round trap that we attached a box trap to. The hogs will get trapped in the bigger trap and by the time you show up they will all have worked themselves into the smaller box trap and it makes it much easier to load them up. http://www.wildhoghunters.com/content/attachments/115d1284566629-6trap-jpg.html Brilliant! |
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Unfortunately, instead of using the chain link to latch it open he tied the door open with a piece of weed eater string. Five hogs from 100 to 150lbs each or so made their way in and of course the weed eater string came untied and they were in there for 5 days before we found them. It was terrible. The smell, the maggots, the black beetles....their hooves were falling off, the meat would just pull off the bone if you tried to drag them out by a leg. It was the grossest thing I've ever had to mess with. Now only I or my hunting partner are allowed to mess with the traps. Theoretical Question - if hogs are attracted to dead, rotting meat... would dead hogs in a trap attract more hogs to trap? Hogs will eat other dead hogs so... on the surface this is a good question. |
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Unfortunately, instead of using the chain link to latch it open he tied the door open with a piece of weed eater string. Five hogs from 100 to 150lbs each or so made their way in and of course the weed eater string came untied and they were in there for 5 days before we found them. It was terrible. The smell, the maggots, the black beetles....their hooves were falling off, the meat would just pull off the bone if you tried to drag them out by a leg. It was the grossest thing I've ever had to mess with. Now only I or my hunting partner are allowed to mess with the traps. Theoretical Question - if hogs are attracted to dead, rotting meat... would dead hogs in a trap attract more hogs to trap? Hogs will eat other dead hogs so... on the surface this is a good question. I guess a dead hog is one of the stinkingest carrion I've ever smelled. I once found a human body, a suicide victim, in the woods in the hot summer and that may have been the only thing as bad. Live humans can stink worse than any live, feral hog. I had to meet a sub contractor from California on a job a couple days ago and I could smell his BO when I first got within thirty feet of him. I had to change clothes and throw them on the back deck when I got home and hit the shower to get the stink out of my nose, it was like being sprayed by a skunk. I've never smelled a hog that far away. He ain't getting the job. |
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Unfortunately, instead of using the chain link to latch it open he tied the door open with a piece of weed eater string. Five hogs from 100 to 150lbs each or so made their way in and of course the weed eater string came untied and they were in there for 5 days before we found them. It was terrible. The smell, the maggots, the black beetles....their hooves were falling off, the meat would just pull off the bone if you tried to drag them out by a leg. It was the grossest thing I've ever had to mess with. Now only I or my hunting partner are allowed to mess with the traps. Theoretical Question - if hogs are attracted to dead, rotting meat... would dead hogs in a trap attract more hogs to trap? Hogs will eat other dead hogs so... on the surface this is a good question. I'm not sure but I can tell you this, it didn't run them away. We pulled the dead hogs out and left the trap in the exact same spot and three or four days later when the smell had dissipated enough that we could stand it, we baited it back up and the hogs were right back in it again. It had zero affect from what we could tell and the "trap of death" was the most successful trap we had in that field. |