Feral Hogs Traps

January 16th, 2019

January 25th, 2019

Well got to see a private landowners doing his own research, building his own trap. Everything I have read in my interviews, text, email, pm, videos and phone conversations he is doing everything recommended to build the best quality trap. Along with shooting hogs with guns and bows across his property. His biggest was over 300 lbs.

PRIVATE LANDOWNER WILD HOG TRAPS

Scouting, Pre-Baiting, Baiting, and Game Cameras just some of the things to consider, then you must decide on. 

Type of Panel & Overlapping
Length of T-Post, Spacing and Location
Type of Door
Attaching Panels to Each Other
Attaching T- Post to Panels
Attaching door to T-Post & Panels
Bottom of Gate Considerations
Top of Trap Considerations
​Type of Trigger

Resources:

Texas A&M University System
 
http://feralhogs.tamu.edu/files/2010/05/CorralTraps.pdf

Mississippi State University Extension Service
 
​http://wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/types-traps-feral-pigs.html
 
Videos - Selecting Panels for Wild Pig Traps

University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture Cooperative Extension Service Arkansas Forest Resources Center

https://www.uaex.edu/publications/pdf/MP537.pdf

JAGER PRO™ Hog Trapping (6)- Panel Selection - YouTube
 
https://youtu.be/Tvyq4RM3IpQ

Alabama Cooperative Extension System

https://youtu.be/_t103K7lVU8

TAMU Wildlife and Fisheries Extension

https://youtu.be/xu3Irm_1ivc
 
Selecting Doors

ACES - Fresh from the Field

https://youtu.be/g6gYl5pnU3w

Hog Trapping | (2) Hog Trap & Door Selection | JAGER PRO™

https://youtu.be/Wfdii32THeE
 
Top of Traps
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Goin Fencing

https://youtu.be/haFsKVuqn9w
 

​Or you can go with different companies traps if you have the money to do so.
Hog Cutters Trapping Company, Pig Brig, Jager Pro, Bull Creek, Boar Buster and I am sure more exist.

The Tsunami of Wild Hogs is coming to Missouri and the state agency will not be able to handle the numbers of Wild Hogs on the landscape. It’s no longer if you get Wild Hogs but when. You’re going to have to decide on what to do!

THE MISSOURI DROP GATE

​December 12, 2019

Missourian please share this with your landowners they are going to need it.

We believe every method to control hog population. I hope and the landowner hopes it helps just one person and WE have made a difference.

These plans where developed in 2014 by the USDA and MDC.

But you won't find them on MDC website for landowners to use.

Anything dealing with Wild Hog in Missouri is like a national secret from who, when, where, and how.

P.S. - It is a interesting note this is same design or very close as a Jager Pro Gate. I should know I have one.

Also the biggest note: Remember NO GUARANTEE of whole sounder being caught when Animal Activated Triggers are used. Could be 1,2,3,4, 10 or 20 or a deer. while the rest of the sounder watches on the outside and become trap shy hog. That is why trap, shoot, dog, thermals, arrow, knife whatever it takes is required

THE MISSOURI DROP TRAP

January 23, 2020

THE MISSOURI DROP TRAP - 2015 and then in 2016 the Feral Hog Missouri Drop Trap – A complete set of CAD engineered drawings is available for distribution to other agencies and partners.

I put in a Freedom of Information Act Request – January 6, 2020 - Would like PDF file of those CAD engineered drawings that have been distributed.

Never published Online or a Magazine, by the Missouri Department of Conservation, Lobbyist, and not one member of the Missouri Feral Hog Task Force for Missouri Landowners to use.

Never published by the USDA Aphis for the Public or Missouri landowners to use.

Paid for by Missouri Taxpayers

If this Missouri Drop Trap is so effective, and landowners are so important to work with – WHY HAS THE PLANS BEEN KEPT FROM MISSOURI PUBLIC AND MISSOURI LANDOWNERS FOR 4 OR 5 YEARS?

​PEOPLE OF MISSOURI – HOPE IT HELPS ONE LANDOWNER – Trapping is a tool, not a solution – We Believe in all methods to control the population of Missouri Wild Hogs – Eradication is a lie! But Control can be accomplished.

The World is Upside down when, Europe understands THE NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE CONSERVATION MODEL, better than our own Conservation Department!!!!!!

Wildlife is managed under the principles of the The North American Wildlife Conservation Model. The Model should not be exclusive to wildlife or game species but invasive also.
 
Regulated hunting is the foundation of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. It was led by prominent HUNTERS, to stop over-exploitation of wildlife by market hunters and the desire to have wildlife accessible to all people.
 
Simple way to look at it - That is why we have the Department of Conservation to set limits on the amount to wildlife that can be taken, so wildlife will be here in the future.
 
The early days of North American wildlife management were spent stopping declines of those species the human population found useful in some way and encouraging population growth with limited seasons, male-only hunting, daily bag limits and other RESTRICTIONS.
 
As successful law enforcement, habitat preservation and wildlife management programs grew, so did most wildlife populations.
 
Early biologists saw this effect of harvest as evidence that game populations could be managed as a renewable natural resource where the population replaces the portion REMOVED by HUNTERS.
 
In cases where population REDUCTION is the management goal, managers must implement FEMALE harvest beyond the level at which the population can replace itself in the short-term.
 
POPULATION REDUCTIONS or maintenance at appropriate levels are a clear case of HUNTERS acting as partners in wildlife management. Conflicts with man in the form of vehicle collisions, nuisance wildlife, livestock depredation, predation on crops and risks to human safety may result in a goal to manage at a ‘Social Carrying Capacity’ lower than the biological limit of the habitat
 
For example, the number of deer-vehicle collisions is estimated to exceed 1.5 million every year on U.S. roadways. This tremendous loss of life and property, illustrates the importance of effectively managing wildlife abundance to appropriate levels by the HELP from HUNTERS.
 
Recent international symposia have reaffirmed that regulated HUNTING is the MOST EFFECTIVE TOOL to assure species exist in balance with their habitat.
 
The role of hunting - Over-abundant big game populations can alter the habitat to the detriment of many other species. The same can be said for Wild Hogs
 
This shows the IMPORTANCE OF HUNTING IN CONTROLLING WILDLIFE POPULATIONS. – The same can be said for Wild Hogs.
 
In some areas, deer overpopulation increases because LANDOWNER RESTRICT HUNTING.
 
The same can be said for Wild Hogs in Missouri – Over-abundance of Wild Hog Population can alter the habitat to the detriment of many other native species. On Missouri Department of Conservation Land the Wild Hog overpopulation increase because the AGENCY RESTRICT HUNTING.

Europe understands role of Hunters in Wild Hog Control.


HUNTING SERVES THE ENVIRONMENT BY CONTROLLING OVERPOPULATION, STUDY SHOWS

http://wildpiginfo.msstate.edu/booklet.pdf

Great Resource
Frequently Asked Questions-Wild Pigs
https://feralhogs.tamu.edu/frequently-asked-questions/frequently-asked-questions-wild-pigs/​
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​Thirteen states have established and increasing populations: AZ, KY, MI, MS, Missouri, NM, NY, NC, OH, OR, PA, VA and WI. 

Be sure you watch the video at the top of the same page by
Billy Higginbotham
Professor and Extension Wildlife and Fisheries Specialist
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service

One of the many tools is hunting, that can kill 24% of the population.

That's why Trap only or Hunting only will NOT control the hog population much less eliminate in Missouri.