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Hogs and food plots
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09/20/10 03:54 PM
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hunter3
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Have a quick question. will hogs tear up a food plot. I have heard yes and I have heard no. I planted a week ago and if they will I need to get some sort of fence up around it. any help by this weekend would be great.
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Re: Hogs and food plots
[Re: hunter3]
#1683979
09/20/10 06:39 PM
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hunter3
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any help here or do I need to move this post to the deer hunting section
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Re: Hogs and food plots
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09/20/10 07:43 PM
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Hookem'UTbass
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Hogs are rooters, they tear up most food plots if they like it.
Best research what hogs don't like to see what you can get away with, which maybe hard thing to do.
Supposedly they don't like cotton seed, so feeding deer cotton seed is alternative in feeders over corn.
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Re: Hogs and food plots
[Re: Hookem'UTbass]
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09/21/10 12:54 AM
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duke08
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Honestly a low hot wire. The farmers the complain about the pigs rootin up crops are the lazy ones who dont want to put one up. If the pigs are not pravoked around it they wont bother it. Otherwise the will run straight through it. If u set one make it about 6 to 10 inches off the ground.
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Re: Hogs and food plots
[Re: duke08]
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09/21/10 01:20 PM
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Wanadeer
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Hogs love fresh turned up dirt, especially if it's fertilized. They can smell it from a mile away. Unless you seeded it really heavy with large seed(pea, soy bean, etc) the hogs will mill around it some and move on. Smaller seed like oats, wheat, etc will be too small for the hogs to pick. Small pigs will graze it some but they can't get much. It will still grow fine. Birds will get more seed then the hogs.
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Re: Hogs and food plots
[Re: Wanadeer]
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09/22/10 01:07 AM
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n-all
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place some traps near the plot..pigs get trap savvy..and they will avoid the area
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Re: Hogs and food plots
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09/22/10 01:33 AM
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hunter3
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