Hog Pipe

[Mrlucky353]

I'm sitting on my friend's property waiting to see if this feral hog is going to show up on schedule.
He played with the hog pipe for about an hour last night.

There's a bunch of cows sitting around nearby tonight, so I'm doubtful he'll show.

[singleshotcajun]

CHOOTEM

[Ranch Dog]

Did he show?

[Mrlucky353]

He did not.

Wind should be favorable again tonight.

Here's the trail cam video from Tuesday night showing the hog rolling the pipe like it was a toothpick.

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[Tuco Ramirez]

Slow cook him on a pit feed with mesquite!! Feel free to invite me for dinner.....

[Mrlucky353]

Back at it again tonight.

I've been watching 3 boars and a sow show up intermittently on 2 game cams for about a month now.
Each one shows up alone, on separate days.
Their timing hasn't followed any real pattern.
I can see why people would use traps.
But what fun is that?

Wiley Coyote showed up at the hog pipe at 4 am a couple of nights ago as well.
He had been looking very skinny, then he disappeared from the cams
and a bobcat showed up in his territory.

I thought Wiley might have placed second in the battle for survival of the fittest.
But here he is again, looking like the master of his domain:

[Mrlucky353]

No hog last night, just plenty cows.

I've never seen hogs show up on the trail cam when cows are in the area.

Might be smart to get a pattern on when the cows come into the happy hunting grounds.
And use those nights to reload bullets.

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[mr surveyor]

looks like brisket and hamburger to me

[Moon Tree]

OK, what's a "hog pipe" ?

[Mrlucky353]

A hog pipe is a portable corn dispenser or feeder.

It helps limit the amount of corn eaten by birds, raccoons, deer, and other creatures
since the pipe has to be rolled in order for the corn to fall out of the holes drilled in the side of the PVC.

Our cows, or at least one smart cow, figured out how to roll the pipe and get all the corn.
If you can treat the corn so that pigs will eat it and cows won't, you're golden.
If it weren't for the cows, I'd just use plain corn.

Right now I'm using soured corn that's been fermenting in a 5 gallon bucket.
The online guru's say hogs like it when you add things like beer, Kool-Aid, and Strawberrry Soda.
Some suggest adding a small amount of diesel to keep the cows away.
The current batch stinks to high heaven.

I don't know whether it is the stink or the diesel that is keeping the cows from eating it.
But the hogs still eat it.

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Below is a good description and link from another writer showing how to make one:

"A pig pipe is a very cheap and easy to construct hog feeder that can keep hogs busy for hours at a time trying to get at all of the corn inside.

"The basic premise is that it's a PVC tube capped at both ends with holes drilled in and filled with corn. It's then attached by a chain or rope to a stake or t-post so that the hogs can push it around in a circle and while it rolls small amounts of corn will fall out of the holes for the hogs to eat. Since the large pipe must be rolled this prevents large amounts of corn being eaten by deer, coons or other animals that would normally eat the corn thrown from a feeder." http://www.wildhoghunters.com/content/4 ... -pipe.html

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