food plots for hogs

[dougepooo]

if your planting specificly for hogs what do you plant?

[bryon]

weat, barley,corn tomatoe;s Bromley. there is one hunting place in fla. they plant a garden of veg;s just for the hogs and deer to eat. like water melones pea;s it is all good...chum and they will come.

[NelsonV]

I plant Chufa and Johnson grass in my bottom land. They root both up to get the roots and the nuts from the Chufa. It may take a little time for them to find it but when they do the pay off is worth it. Plus try to keep it close to a water source.

[Keechi]

In east Texas we plant purple top turnips good for deer and hogs and are pretty cheap to plant.I have seen hogs root then up and eat them all day long.

[milton]

We plan oats turnips that have really paid off. They love them

[BustedAssRanch]

Turnips....

[CustomCrest]

Dang, I thought you could plant a landmine and they'd eat it. I didn't realize I was so nieve. :)

[BustedAssRanch]

LMAO...They would root it up for sure.....

[BustedAssRanch]

Here are a few pictures of the ones in Lulling. They have corn, beans, turnips, watermelon & cantolope.


http://texashoghunter.com/oldatt/plot good.jpg

[dougepooo]

Will they go for wheat or oats before they make grain?

[USHogOutfitters]

I know whith corn and milo they normally stay out until the heads form

[hawaiihoghunter]

I cant say it would be easy for any of you to do this, but my grandpa when he was in his early 20's he had planted about 100 fruit trees on the farm. Since then many of the trees where sold and dug up we have about 40 trees left. We have mangos, papayas, Hawaiian mountain apples, 3 types of guava. along with that we have a bunch of lilikoi(pasion fruit) vine patches and nut trees kukui and macadamia. The mix of fruit trees that drops fruit at different times of the year and nut trees that dorp year-round it keeps the hogs around and happy.

Of course you cant grow all the trees that I have but I bet you could get fruit & nut trees that grow in your area. I wouldn't recommend growing them from a seed. You can probly get grown trees that you can transplant.

If you do this you wont have to grow a food plot year after year. all you have to do is do it once and keep up with it.

[ggonzales]

I have done some research and using fruit and nut trees is a growing trend with not only hog hunting but also deer hunting, the most important thing is to care for the young tree and protect it with a barrier of some sort to keep the wildlife from damaging it. But, once they get old enough to produce fruit and nuts, watch out because the wildlife just love them and they can be just effective in attracting wildlife as food plots and dont require as much work, some types of fruit trees require less rainfall also. We are in the process of planing some apple, pear, persimion trees at our ranch for the deer and hogs to supplement the existing food plots we already have.