Thanks cows...

As of 7:00 pm last night this was up throwing corn. Not only did they bend the T-post, bust the top off, and knock over the feeder I filled last weekend, but they also punched a hole in it and one of them felt the need to drag a game camera into the woods, at least they didn't completely destroy the motor......thanks cows.

Yes sir that stinks, but cows come first.

Hate to say it, but is not going to get any better. Now it will take a feed pen to stop them or a hanging feeder. They will camp under it though.

No doubt, just sucks. They didn't even eat all the corn lol.

There are pens around every feeder but this one, really rocky on top of the hill according to my fellow lease member, that is why it doesn't have a pen.

Same scene at my place except that it's the neighbors cows. Completely emptied two feeders. Says they don't think they can get them out anytime soon.

Gonna be a fun season.

I know your pain.
after this happened to me in south Texas,
I always put a barbed wire fence around my feeders.
saves many headaches.

I'm with Stx, if you want to feed and you have cows on your place, build a pen.

...and if you can't build a pen where the feeder is....move the feeder to someplace you can pen it....otherwise you might as well just take it down and safe yourself the damage.....

How can you be sure that it was the cows?

This is a secondary feeder for that blind. The other feeder has a hog panels around it. I don't think it will be replaced after this. However, this isn't my call as I don't own the feeder, I was checking on it and the camera for a fellow lease member.

A hog isn't tall enough to bend that T-post, the way it was, but other than that the camera before it was knocked down told the story.

The evidence was all over the ground. I had them bastages eat 2000lbs of protein in 2 days once after they broke through my barbed wire fence. I only use electric fences now, they don't like those too much.

J

Luckily our hog arent that aggressive yet.

Could be worse, could of happened during the season. The goats did that to me last year. Not only that but they drove off all the deer. Ruined the whole season. Hope you get it straighten out.

Get them out yourself. You don't have to let neighbors cattle have free run of your property.

As bad as the range conditions look there it is going to be tough keeping them away even with a pen.

Umm all the cow crap in the pic my be a clue

Old timer- Texas wildlife supply

Yeah, I think it went over his head. Guess I should have thrown out a sarcasm disclaimer.

Fence is bad and I don't have time to fix it. Neighbor is in bad health and can't care for the cows.

May take a couple days off work to handle before gun season starts but not really how I want to burn vacation days I planned to use to hunt.

Cattle panel fence will do the trick w/2" metal conduit legs anchored with rebar. And, don't put salt block in pen for deer. The cows went thru panel & bobwire to get at salt block at one of my feeders.

Its the lack of rain for the time of year

Been there, done that!! It sucks!!

If you want a quick fix put a hay ring around it and it will solve the cattle problem at least

That is a pretty good idea, won't stop them from eating it but at least they won't knock it back over.

Build a pen, dang cows.

Yepper...Simple Solution

Talked to my fellow lease member, plan is to try and build a pen if possible the weekend before opening day. Thanks for the advice guys.

Cows did the same thing to me
I won't be setting a feeder back up on that spot until I can build a pen

They'll be back - they love a good pinata party!

dang squirrels....

Cows,ha ha. I recall a time many many years ago I was hunting off the Paluxy river in Glen Rose TX I laid out the most beautiful and longest trail of apples you ever seen thinking eh what the heck it works for Yankee deer. My Stand overlooked the bottom and ones side of the river,it was about 12 foot up and over afield of tall river grass and weeds...I could hear munching and shuffling getting closer and closer...I just new it had worked and any minute now the Biggest apple eating buck of all time was going to appear...only it wasn't a buck it was some cows that had followed behind on the trail and ate every single apple and stood there looking at me all but pointing their hooves and asking for more! Meh....

I have a pack of coons that I bet could have done that.

Build a fence

you dont have to build a pen.
I had this problem and fixed it by putting a cage up that didnt allow them to head butt the motor and get corn to fall. Then I took the t posts for the legs and drove them in about 6 inches high on the legs and angled them outward. This makes them wide enough to be their own fence posts. then use barbed wire around the t posts. it creates a place directly under the feeder where deer have to put there heads through the barbed wire, but they will if the corn broadcasted outside the triangle is gone. it makes a triangular fence the width of your feeder legs. 3 strands like a normal barb wire fence

I had a huge boar do that to a feeder. The rewarding part is that I shot that sucker and it didn't tick off the neighbors.

Hah! Me too!

You had me at Paluxy...