Hunting & Fishing Need some feeder protection help.....

[WtxShooter]

So out at my hunting lease, I made a visit today and found that the cattle that are there have managed to knock over my feeder and waste all my corn. So my 2 hour drive to get there was wasted on fixing all of that instead of trying to do any varmint hunting. So here is my issue. The feeder is for the hogs, as well as the deer during season. Do any of you guys have any ideas on how to protect it from cattle, but without restricting the hogs from having access to it? The easy part is putting up panels around the near perimeter, but the hogs are not gonna be able to jump the panels like the deer, obviously. Was curious if any of you had experience with this. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[4cDragon]

T Post every 10’ and run 2-3 runs of barbed wire. Keep bottom wire 18”-2’ off the ground and tie it tight to T Post. You can also run a cheap solar electric fence also. If you go solar electric use two wires and that keeps the calves and cattle out, but lets pigs and deer in. The pigs run under and the deer jump over.

 

[Chernobyl]

I put t-posts in the ground every 8-10ft apart depending on what size 4’ tall cattle panel I am using (either 16’ or 20’). The deer can jump over this very easily to include bigger fawns. As far as the hogs, when I wanted them to be able to get inside, I would splice a swinging door style gate on one side of the pen. Do it on the side closest to you that away you can shoot as they enter and exit. The hogs could push the gate with their noses lifting it up and then walk in. They would exit in the same fashion. This works great if you are hunting from an elevated position. If sitting in a ground blind you may shoot the fence when shooting hogs inside the pen. 4cdragons idea I used for quite sometime. However I would constantly return to the lease to find the cows pushed through it or knocked it down while fighting one another near the pen. See Pinterest for more ideas.

 

[Nitrosteel]

I wrap the legs of my tripods with barb wire and that has kept them from getting knocked over by the cows that used to rub on them all the time. Just don’t forget about the barb wire when you get close. It will reach out and bite you...