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I built a hog trap this weekend where i made a cirlce out of t-post that's about 20ft. in diameter. Then i put cattle panels on the outside and added the trap door. The entire cage is very strong and secure but you think this is enough to keep them in if i check it the next day? I think the only way theycould get out would be to dig under it.

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I would have put the panels on the inside of the t-posts, but sounds like it should work....does for us.

best of luck

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I use a similiar set-up, I have an old hay ring for cattle, I tied hog wire around it and used a one way trap door. I use t-posts to hold it down and they haven't dug out yet. It only works for a short time though, they seem to figure out it is a trap after a while. If you take the door off and continue to bait it for a few weeks they will start to come back in.


Chris "The lil piggy buster"
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"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks

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I have heard that if theres no floor they will dig out. In mississippi,I had a hell of a time with them wading in and eating my beavers last year.I plan to go back in feb and set up a bunch of snares.

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We have ours built from stock panels also. We've built a couple different types and finally, after trial & error, we kept the same design but made the traps stronger. One design is strong enough to take a hard lick and knock the hog nearly unconious. They other, similar to what you have built, is strong enough to hold them, but it flexes. I don't have any pics of the really sturdy trap, but here's a couple of the one similar to yours.(I think)

A view from above. Also we lined the inside with a smaller mesh wire and cyclone fencing to keep those little (crockpot size) piggies inside. Yes, they can fit thru the holes in the panels. We also , used the surrounding trees for support.


Here's a pic of the same trap with 5 60-75 pounders in it. 3 sows & 2 boars.



What you think is strong enough,...isn't! We watched a sow about 150lbs walk right through our other stock panel trap like it wasn't there. She broke several welds on it. Now we have it triple-layered and haven't had a problem since...............YET!

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OK.... this maybe a stupid question.... but i'm not a hog hunter so its new to me.
What do you do with them after you have them trapped? shoot them in the cage?

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We do sometimes if we need the meat. We trap an obscene amount of hogs here, especially in the winter. We load them into a homemade trailer andtake them to a small holding pen.Made of heavy pipe and panels, no t-posts.

When we have enough in there (a few hundred) we sell em to a meat buyer.

best of luck

Holding pen.....

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Be warned that large hogs can jump a cattle panel. They can also jump out of a trailerif itdoesn't have some sort of top.

They can also break things you'd never imagine breaking.

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this all sounds like alot of fun:D

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Well ive never done this before either but we have a problem with a hog on our deer hunting and i was wondering after making this trap how do they get in but not out