We have six blind/feeder combos at our place near Robert Lee Texas. Feeders are HangEm High feeders so the canister is six feet off the ground and are not bothered by anything but birds. We have cattle fencing around the feeder to keep cows and pigs out of the pen. However, as we all know pigs stop at nothing to get in and naturally they have dug under the fence at every feeder. I've tried rocks, cement bags, dirt and nothing holds them back. Any suggestions?

Significant hog panel dug down into the dirt 6"-10".

Snare the holes and let the piggies squeal!!!!

Oh boy. War with hungry and plentiful hogs is really never ending.

Hog panels are a must to keep them out but they're not bulletproof. While I like the post above recommendation about burying panels, that's just not a possibility in places that are rock 2" below the surface (like where I hunt). You often have a game of whack a mole and just need to find weak spots and put in more and more t-posts.

Eventually, you'll slow them down and stop them from entering below the panels but if they're still really hungry and big enough, they'll just climb the panels. If that is the case you need to work on making sure all the panels are tight and also inspect your gate. I finally moved to reinforcing my gate with cedar pickets and put t-posts just outside the width of a truck on the gate.

If that still fails, you have a pig (or possibly more)that is athletic as hell and you just have to shoot him. I have been dealing with all of this for the last 4-5 years at one feeder… lead poisoning is the best solution.



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Jumping *******:

https://i.imgur.com/Q4rSo89.mp4

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Anyone know if solar powered electric wire could work?

I've laid an apron at base of fence with 4' tall roll and leave about 1' up the fence and 3' on the ground. We never had anything dig under that.

Edit to say you can stake it but it doesn't need to be. They tend to try to dig at base of fence on top of apron.

It worked for me on my food plots in Fayette county-but only the Parmak 12 volt charger. That model pumps out 3.2 joules I believe-most other solar chargers are less than 1 joule. I have one wire 6-8" off ground and another at 18-24". Haven't had pig in it in 7 years. No guarantees it will work every where-ad poster above, I did have a 250 lb boar jumping hog panels around one of my feeders. But he never jumped electric fence at food plot.

I've seen some new hog traps designed like this but they lay the apron to the inside of the pen. The hogs easily push through to get in but with 3' of fabric inside they can't push back out.

Makes sense. As smart as they are they don't try to start digging at edge of apron, so can't get through

What about putting t-posts (or 6 t-posts) in the holes? Someone suggested boards with nails.

I never have issues with hog panels. You should try them

Deerdude said:

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I've laid an apron at base of fence with 4' tall roll and leave about 1' up the fence and 3' on the ground. We never had anything dig under that.

Edit to say you can stake it but it doesn't need to be. They tend to try to dig at base of fence on top of apron.

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This is exactly what I do, except I interweave a couple t-posts through both the upright panels and the apron panels on the ground, just in case they somehow get clever and pull the apron panel out… although it may not be necessary. With hogs standing on the panel, they cannot burrow under the fence, as their own weight pressing down on the panels works against them. This method has always worked for me.

bassmaster07 said:

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Anyone know if solar powered electric wire could work?

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It works real well around my feeder and food plots in brazos county. Doesn't bother the seer one bit. One strand around bottom of fence I would think would work. I have also seen some wrap 4 point guacho barbed wire around the bottom of panel where it touches the ground. That is a a real pain to do though.

The Apron seems like a good solution.

I've run 4 point gaucho wire around bottom of hog panels and haven't had issues with rooting under after that.

Leon88 said:

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The Apron seems like a good solution.

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It's easy and it works like a champ.

This sucka weighed 220lbs

I have seen them climb on top of one another to get out of a trap