Hey guys, How many feeding times and how much corns should I set it up for feeding hogs in a small area?
Maybe once in a morning and once in a night? And how much corns for each feeding time?
The area where Im putting a feeder is not even an acre size and I get about 3 to maybe 10 hogs every morning and night.
And my feeder can hold 225lb of corns. Should I use cracked or whole corns?
it's the noise of the spinner throwing corn that they get used to and come running when they hear it, so you kinda want to have it run for a while, but not waste/use up too much corn too fast. gonna have to experiment and see how much it throws per second. if you can adjust how close the opening from the barrel is to the spinner, or make the opening smaller so it throws less corn longer (but uses more battery life) that might help. one idea I haven't tried yet is to attatch one of those fishing bells to the spinner so it makes more/louder noise, a dinner bell if you will. as for day or eve feeds or both, I'd set it to go off when you plan on being there. mine is a photo cell so I can't control when it goes off it's sunrise and sunset, now 7:50 am and app 4:30 pm. but I only hunt am's as I'm needed at home for pm's
Just use regular feeder corn or the apple flavored feeder corn if you think that will help. It ain't gonna matter with hogs though, so get the cheaper stuff and you'll be fine. If I've got hogs on a feeder I either feed for 8 seconds twice a day (an hour after daylight and an hour before dark) or I'll go with 1 12-second feeding an hour after daylight. I like feeding once a day in the morning as that seems to get the hogs and deer under your feeder while it's daylight instead of after dark. Depending on the amount of pressure and how educated the hogs are, they may learn to be nocturnal but if you've got them coming in during the day now, sounds like it should work out fine for you.
Nacho is right in some situations as they will come running when they hear the feeder. The hogs are bedding 800+ yards from my feeders so I know they're not hearing it and they're just used to coming looking for food at this point. I did have one feeder set right next to the bedding area over the summer. You could trip the feeder in 100+ degree weather at 1pm and they'd come running right in. Pretty cool.
Thank you guys. I set up the timer and I only made it to feed twice in a day for 6 seconds each which will spread a 1 lb of corns for each feeding time. First feeding time is 7:00am and 2nd time is 5:30pm.
And I had a quite hard time putting a feeder up by myself haha. Next time im gonna bring either someone to help me or a ladder so I dont have to climb a tree with a 50lb corn on my shoudler lol
