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What is the best feeder to keep hogs out of deer? ›

3: Use Gravity-Flow Tube Feeders. Tube feeders keep feed out of reach of hogs but available to deer. Protein feed or corn can be used in this type of feeder, and the design keeps hogs from using it. Brace the legs of the feeder with T-posts to prevent hogs from knocking it down.

Producers can utilize traditional dry feeders, wet-dry feeders, round feeders, or tube feeders in all phases of production.

Buying Feeder Pigs

Eight-week-old pigs should weigh at least 35 pounds. Twelve-week-old pigs should weigh at least 60 pounds. Look for healthy pigs. Alert, active pigs are usually healthy.

Sweet corn is a staple in hog baits, because hogs can easily recognize the smell. Corn will “sour” once soaked for several days, creating a smell that will attract hogs but keep other animals, such as deer, away.

Deer are not fans of sour corn, but hogs are. If you are looking for ways to be more efficient with your feeding strategies, soured corn as your wild hog bait attractant may be the best fit for you.

Ideally, pigs should be kept on a deworming schedule throughout the growing season, where they are given deworming medications once every 30 days, rotating products when possible. This will allow for your animal to remain free of parasites and have an optimal growth rate.

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Pigs gain very efficiently during the nursing period, and the purchase of a top-quality creep feed is a wise investment. The growing-finishing period extends from weaning to marketing at about 220 pounds.

At the end of the nursery phase, the pigs enter a feeder-to-finish, or simply, the finishing stage, where at approximately 6 months they reach a desired slaughter weight of above 280 pounds, which will produce an approximate 210 pound carcass. A desired slaughter weight is the optimum market weight.

How many people will a 70 lb hog feed? ›

What size should the pig be? A simple rule of thumb is to order one pound of carcass weight per person. A 70 pound pig is enough to feed 70 people. After shrinkage during cooking, trimming and removing bone and skin, a 70 pound pig yields approximately 35 pounds of edible meat.

Anywhere between 10 - 18 16' x 34" hog panels arraigned in a circle. Bigger is better. But, hog panels are used to exclude hogs/pigs from eating / taking over the feed area. More pigs coming to the feeder, less deer will show up.

The use of fermented or “soured” corn or grain can help to reduce consumption of bait by non-target species.

When hogs are in an area where deer are being fed, many choose to build a small fence structure around the feeder or feeding site. Constructing a three to four-foot-high wire fence circle will often keep hogs from accessing the feed, yet deer can still jump over and feed.

If they're staying on your property and you're trying to feed deer, 9 1/2 times out of 10 the hogs will get it first and you'll just be feeding hogs.

Invasive wild pigs are generally known to be bad for deer. Most hunters in the Southeast have a story of wild pigs destroying food plots or chasing deer away from food sources like acorns near their tree stand.