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As others have said, a hog will eat anything, and if you keep it out all the time they'll actually learn your vehicle/atv and meet you driving to your feeder location.

Some of the things I've seen used, watermelons/cantaloupes, onions, corn, candy syrup from candy factory, even dead chickens from chicken houses, old cooking oil from restaurants, you name it, they'll eat it. A hog will even eat their young. A word to the wise though, they will multiply pretty rapidly and you could end up with a big hog problem.

When I retired in l987 and moved back home, my brother had a homemade gravity feeder fixed up that would hold 3 or 400 pounds of corn, he kept it full. One day I was riding around our club and actually counted 300 hogs (this included the pigs with sows) in one field. It was so bad you couldn't deer hunt for the hogs, as a matter of fact, they'll wipe out your acorn crop before the deer have a chance.
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thanks for all the replies looks like a lot of stuff works you just gotta get out and keep it baited

I can't figure them out. they come by my location so irregular. I have put 25# lard on the ground for em. I have my corn feeder going off 2 x a day, put numerous bottles of syrup and sugar, salt, et on the ground and I still can't get them to come buy on a regular basis. what I mean is there wallow is only 40 yards in a ditch from my new bait station. the pigs have yet to hit my bait. they come from the west every time entering the ditch. my bait station is 40 yards to the east of the ditch. don't figure. saw about 15 of them today about 200 yards eating off another guys feeder that just filled it up for the first time this weekend. mine has been out feeding in the area for about 2 1/2 weeks now. any other suggestions. I keep pouring stuff on the ground but heck, they ain't eating any of it. some of my problem has been the coons and squirrels eating the corn up. I have numerous picts of them under the feeder. thats why I started putting the lard, cooking oil, sugar, and syrup on under the barrel as I figured they wouldn't want to get there paws oily like a hog would.

I have the same problem in the summer. I have a feeder about the same distance from a wallow and nothing. When you're dealing with the 4 th smartest animal on the planet, you're destined to be fooled. I think in the summer especially, scent plays a major role. I try to eliminate any odor from what I touch, but when you're sweaty and working with a feeder and your touching stuff, it's almost impossible. A pig really needs to come across food to come to it consistently. I have heard before that they won't just smell out food and come to it unless it has been imprinted in their brain that that's where it was last time. It sounds like they came across your friends feeder. I usually run a line of corn out of a hole in the bag, across a bunch of well used runs over to my setup. It's helps a little, but they have a masters degree in outsmarting us. That's why we love it! I do use my Tuff Tusk attractant to spray a line over to the feeder as well. I sometimes hang tampons on well used runs with the TUFF TUSK on it as well to get them in. They're playin tricks on you, so play tricks on them. A sour mash attractant can work as a curiosity scent as well as a cover scent. Thats why I spray it on palmettos. It dries and blows in the wind as the bruch moves.But food is the number one motivator for pigs. They're just real wary sometimes.

a nice gravity feed feeder with a large resivour and a "plate" on the bottom works pretty well for us most of the time. we mix poweder strawberry koolaid with it. The pipe feeders work well also but you have to put the hole low to the ground for them to eat. I am wanting to get the TuffTusk in and see how she smells and give it a trial run. - Peace

Best way i have found is to dig a hole as deep as you can with a post hole digger. Fill it half with corn and then pour a pack of dried strawberry jello in it. Then top off the hole with corn. They will root at the holes for a few weeks. Put you out a couple of holes and I promise you it will work. OR you can make a hog feeder out of PVC pipe or a bucket. I use 4 inch PVC pipe at about 3 to 4 pluse feet long. Glue a perminant cap on one end and drill a hole through it. Thread a cable/chainthrough the end so you can anchor it. Drill a number of holes in the pipe that will allow corn to fall through. Put a screw on cap on the other end. Fill the pipe with corn, screw on the cap, and anchor the chain to a tree or something that will not allow the hogs to run off with it. The hogs will push the pipe around releasing the corn for a considerable time..

I have poured all kinds of jello mix on and in the corn feeder (strawberry, grape, etc).

I will try the sour mash.

do you just mix corn and milk together for it and let it sour for a few days?

We do this too, it WORKS. But my feed don't last two weeks. We dig the hole about 24 inches in the sandy soil and fill it with corn and koolaid mix. I guess we pour a whole bag into the whole and it will be gone the next weekend.

have any of you guys used "hog in heat lure" by the texasboars.com for baiting the pigs into your feeders? just curious if this would help establish new feeders or just a waste of money?