Does anyone have experince with a Hog pen around a deer feeder? To keep the hogs out.

Research billy higginbothum at trxas a&m. He’s done a ton of research available online.

It was nice to see the first response included a man who has a wealth of knowledge about feral hogs. He doesn't do guess work and has probably collected more data on those filthy animals than just about anyone else.
Here is a pre-recorded webinar, Wildlife for Lunch, hosted by Professor Higginbotham. The whole presentation is over an hour long, but if I recall correctly, he discusses designs for excluding hogs from deer feeders somewhere towards the end of the webinar.

Good luck, and let us know how it works out for you!

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7-8 panels with t-posts all 3ft high with an entry gate/panel to fill feeder.

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We have a similar setup and it works great. Also, shape doesn't matter either. Round, square, or just making it fit in a location works. Main thing is having enough room for a comfortable landing zone for the deer to get in.

We build our own with T-posts and barbed wire and a small gate for us to tend the feeders. They keep out the cows as well.

Yes, we bought the hog panels from I think Tractor Supply (brother got them, so I'm not sure). They are about 3' or 3 1/2' tall and I think 16' long each. If I remember, we used 4 or 5 on each gravity feeder. Probably have about 15' landing zone all the way around the feeder on all sides (set up in a circle). So, I'd say about 30' wide diameter total, with the feeder in the middle. T-posts every so often to support the panels.

Works awesome / hog activity on our property has dramatically decreased since doing so. I've got plenty of does and nice bucks inside the fence feeding on camera over the last few years.

1. Is it worth the money? Yes the hogs were wiping out 300pounds of whatever we put in it in a week.
2. How many panels to post? We used six panels from tractor supply and put a hot wire rebar on each seam and one in the middle of the panel
3. The height of the panels? Hog panels I think they are 33in high
Please share your experinces. We had pics of deer next to the panel the first night and inside on the second night. We placed rice bran on the outside and on the inside along with the feed in the feeder. We have not had any breaches yet.
We built two but will prolly build another one ore two.

Here's how I did it and so far it's working:

Instead of the hog panels I bought 3 50" panels at a feed store for about half the price. I cut them in half with bolt cutters and wound up with 96 running feet. I built a circular pen that I can easily step over and anchored it every 4-6' with 1/2" (#4 rebar). I did this after talking with several people that had done the same and was told hogs couldn't jump a 2' tall pen. Some probably can but I had a helluva herd coming and not one got in last year.

Hogs rooted all around it but none (so far) can jump over or push it down. First time I went back after a week, I spooked a couple of yearlings out of it. Several does and yearlings got used to it really quick and are not hesitant to jump in.

Down side to my experience is that buck sightings around my stand went south this year. I did build the pen early last fall, so that may have something to do with it. The previous year I let walk 5 racked bucks at my stand, and this past year I saw none of them.

Never put a camera out so I don't know if they were even around, but up until this past year I saw more bucks each year. Hopefully next year they will be more familiar with the pen and show themselves.

I put them around all of my deer feeders. I put 3-4 depending on the size of the feeder. I have an old pole barn that I turned into a large feeding station and fenced off I store all of my corn in a gravity flow wagon. It’s not going to stop hogs from coming on your place but they won’t be eating any of my corn


ETA you’re going to find that raccoons eat a frick ton of corn.

Built it to Dr. Higginbotham’s specs with t posts and panel from tractor supply. 10 panels total, had deer jumping inside almost immediately, kept the hogs out all year. Paid for itself in one season.

Sorry to be so late responding but I put the cut side down to dig in the ground and add a little more stability.