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So I went out and set up a trap a couple weeks ago. I camouflaged it in the cedar so the bigger smarter hogs wouldn't know it's a trap. There were two buckets sitting in the back of the trap just behind the trip wire full of soured corn, one much older than the other. (I didn't want to leave the trip wire and buckets how they were bc a hog could stick his head down in the bucket, eat a bunch of corn and leave without ever kicking the trip line... But my dad is stubborn and didn't wanna change it-- for now)
So, 3 nights ago something got in there, knocked over one of the buckets and ate probably over a gallon of the corn from the fresher bucket that he knocked over, but it didn't trip the wire so there was nothing in it and the door was still open.
The next day my dad checked it again, and the other bucket that was almost full was down to about 25% left in it and it wasn't knocked over, BUT.... The door was tripped shut and the cage was empty.
So something got in there two nights in a row, ate a lot of corn each night and tripped the door one of the nights, but still managed to get out.
What do y'all think? I can't think of any other animal that would eat that much corn like that and be able to walk in and out of the cage. Do u think he coulda rooted the door up and back open? Maybe there was another pig coming into the trap at the same time as the other one hit the trip wire and the other pigs body held the door open long enough for them to both escape??
My dad added some fresh soured corn that he put in the ground in the back of the feeder behind the trip wire. His game camera had broken and he just got a new one yesterday so it's watching the trap now rather being on a feeder or roll barrel...
So, 3 nights ago something got in there, knocked over one of the buckets and ate probably over a gallon of the corn from the fresher bucket that he knocked over, but it didn't trip the wire so there was nothing in it and the door was still open.
The next day my dad checked it again, and the other bucket that was almost full was down to about 25% left in it and it wasn't knocked over, BUT.... The door was tripped shut and the cage was empty.
So something got in there two nights in a row, ate a lot of corn each night and tripped the door one of the nights, but still managed to get out.
What do y'all think? I can't think of any other animal that would eat that much corn like that and be able to walk in and out of the cage. Do u think he coulda rooted the door up and back open? Maybe there was another pig coming into the trap at the same time as the other one hit the trip wire and the other pigs body held the door open long enough for them to both escape??
My dad added some fresh soured corn that he put in the ground in the back of the feeder behind the trip wire. His game camera had broken and he just got a new one yesterday so it's watching the trap now rather being on a feeder or roll barrel...