Hog Wars | How to Build a Hog Trap

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Hog traps are an important part of controlling the hog population. In this video, I will show you how to build a hog trap using cattle panels. This type of trap is sometimes referred to as a round hog trap or corral hog trap. Building a hog trap like this is not hard and doesn't take very long once you have the materials. We set out to build our pig trap with costs in mind. Although cattle panels aren't generally recommended for corral hog traps they are very inexpensive (about $23 for 16ftx4ft) and will probably work fine in our situation because of how we plan to dispatch immediately after capture.

Our strategy was to build a round hog trap in an area where we can leave it up to condition the hogs on a year round basis. We also wanted to put the trap in an area where it wouldn't interfere with our food plots and deer hunting. We picked a perfect spot where we already had hog traffic and it was out of the way of our normal land use.

In building a hog trap you want to start with a flat surface in which you can paint a perfect circle using a pivot point and rope (1/2 the distance of your trap). Most people recommend using a 30 foot corral but we chose to do 25 foot as it seemed plenty big. It is also recommend to use a steel T-post every 4 to 5 feet. We made sure to double wrap baler wire and wrap it around tight using strong pliers. It is suggested to make 5 ties down each T-post for extra security.

Our hog trap door will be 4ft wide and will most likely end up being a guillotine style door that will be triggered by a gun hitting an 8" steel target which will release the door. I plan on completing the hog trap door while the hogs spend a month or two getting use to the hog trap. We will be able to monitor the hog trap from home by our Bigfoot cell cam which is how we'll know when to move in to shoot the trap door once we are ready at the farm.

It only took 4 days for our Bigfoot camera to notify us that hogs had entered the trap. We will give them time to get familiar with it before we catch the whole sounder.

We ended up using the following materials. After everything we spent around $250 (not including the door and Bigfoot camera).
5 1/2 Cattle panels (16x4)
#20-6.5ft T-Posts
1-Roll of baler wire
T-post driver
Pipe, rope, and white spray paint for perimeter line

Thanks for watching and wish us luck in trapping some hogs and controlling our hog population.

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