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 Feeder spin/feed durations
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12/30/24 08:18 PM
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Jeff Wallis
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How many seconds do y’all feed for and how many times per day/night? I’m using a Mighty buck feeder and spinning corn for 3 sec in the morning and 5 at last light. Thinking of increasing the latter.
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Re: Feeder spin/feed durations
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12/30/24 10:23 PM
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When do you want the hogs to show up?
Are they eating all the corn you are throwing now?
I'd have to ask my cousin what the feeders are set for, but I'm pretty sure they are set to throw for a few seconds in the morning during deer season, then he sets them to the evening as well when we come down for hogs.
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Re: Feeder spin/feed durations
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12/31/24 06:02 PM
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Jeff Wallis
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When do you want the hogs to show up?
Are they eating all the corn you are throwing now?
I'd have to ask my cousin what the feeders are set for, but I'm pretty sure they are set to throw for a few seconds in the morning during deer season, then he sets them to the evening as well when we come down for hogs. I’m going to end the morning feeding and do 2 in the evening, which is when I hunt most often. When hogs are around, and deer, the corn gets eaten within 20 min. Less when I get a sounder. Typically I have a loan boar hanging out for a few days, until he’s dispatched. I want to attract more sounders (if that’s even possible) and think there’s not enough feed to keep em interested.
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Re: Feeder spin/feed durations
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01/01/25 04:46 PM
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I want to attract more sounders (if that’s even possible) and think there’s not enough feed to keep em interested. I dunno. I used to throw for about 3-5 seconds and when there was a sounder in the area, particularly if it was a large sounder with several sows and 15-20 piglets, they seemed to need all the food they could find. They would come regularly and, in cool weather, often show up before sundown.
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Re: Feeder spin/feed durations
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01/01/25 07:31 PM
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jetdad
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A lot depends on how big the gap is in the spinner plate. You can change the amount thrown significantly by having a bigger gap. It's hard to tell you depending on how your plate is set. I'd experiment to see how much they do clean up. Increase the throw by 1 second at a time until they don't clean it up. Are you r feeders penned? Do you have cameras up? Are you just after deer or hogs also? You can go broke feeding hogs.
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Re: Feeder spin/feed durations
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01/19/25 07:14 PM
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Jeff Wallis
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A lot depends on how big the gap is in the spinner plate. You can change the amount thrown significantly by having a bigger gap. It's hard to tell you depending on how your plate is set. I'd experiment to see how much they do clean up. Increase the throw by 1 second at a time until they don't clean it up. Are you r feeders penned? Do you have cameras up? Are you just after deer or hogs also? You can go broke feeding hogs. Just hunting hogs and my main feeder has a 3/4 pen around it, with the idea i can shoot multiple hogs while they try to flee. I have cameras set up and they usually clean out all the corn within 20 minutes.
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