Sour corn

[Littlejake]

Just caught part of a show on the boob tube this morning on hog hunting.The guy put shelled corn in a bucket added water and yeast.Said it really worked for hogs.Any of you guys ever used it?

[Pat B]

I knew a guy in Savannah that had catch dogs and would catch hogs pen them up for a few weeks and feed them nothing but soured corn. He said it would get rid of intestinal parasites and sweeten the meat.

[cacciatore]

I use to sour the corn with cheap beer and it really works,they make huge holes to catch it.The good think is that hogs only are atracted by this.

[PM_Mining]

mash from making alcohol is the best animal feed going.  It is already broken down in a way that makes it easy to digest and for the animal to get the most from the feed, and they really go for it too.  With all that said, I would certainly give it a shot if you have the grain to use.

[lpcjon2]

I had a bag of corn i left in my truck and it was rained on and began to mold up and sprout.I threw it out for the deer and they scarfed it up before they ate the fresh stuff.

[jwatts]

Not sure about hogs, but it is a great attractant for coons. We used to hang old tires on trees and fill them with corn and water. When it started to sour it would attract coons to it. We would use this to start training young dogs to tree.

[Bruce Martin]

It is used for baiting hogs into traps here. All kinds of interesting recipes: I've heard adding raspberry kool-aid to the sour corn will bring them in. With hogs, I am not surprised by anything.

[acolobowhunter]

I have done this for javelina in Texas.  Take a 5 gallon bucket and fill about 1/2 - 2/3 full of corn.  Pour in a gallon of milk and about 2 cups of cheap whiskey.  One fellow told not use diesel fuel, but I did not want to eat a pig that had been eating diesel fuel, thus the cheap whiskey.  Suppose a few cans of beer would work as well.  
Put the plastic lid on and set in the sun for about a week.  
I had the bucket open at hunting camp one day and some javelina came out of a dry creek bottom 100-200 yards away and followed the smell right to the bucket.

[m'gobo]

A really good attractant is liquid feed at about $1.80 per gallon. Not sure about sour corn getting rid of parasites. It will pack the fat on a hog for sure.

[kung fu kid]

WOW.  It's amazing what a city slicker like me can learn on the sebsite.  I've never heard of "sour corn" or corn and alcohol to attract games.  Very interesting.

[wollelybugger]

I was hunting in WV and asked the farmer how he got his corn crop off the top of the mountain. He said by the  gallon.

[J-dog]

Too funny woolybugger!! i have never been able to bait except for this year - I had private land this year and it was legal - second I never got the chance to actually hunt over the bait!

That said we do sour our corn a little before we put it out. Deer will eat it. Course when I did it I got bears - buddy got the deer! LOL

J

[Bill Skinner]

Kerosene works better than diesel fuel.  Hogs are the only thing that will eat the corn.  The kerosene will kill all the parasites in their system.  Moldy corn can cause spontanous abortion in pregnant does, it doesn't hurt anything else except horses.  Bill

[Don Batten]

My grandaddy use to make whiskey out of Reddog Hog feed and suger and yeast. corn soured with water yeast and suger that has fermented is basically beer. You just boil it and catch the steam and you got some grain alchol. ever clear basically. Great with some hawalian punch and fresh fruit. Just don't drive after drinking it.

sorry, got off topic. yes the hogs will love it and bears do too. merry christmas Don

[Slasher]

WOW!!! I guess i need to start saving the mash grains from making beer to bait hawgs... Man, talk about recycling!!! That would be awesome, brew a good german Alt beer, use the grains to attract hawgs to a hunting area, shoot the hawg, and have a german BBQ!!!

[Fletcher]

Makes perfect sense to me, Slasher.

[George D. Stout]

Baiting hogs?   I think in rural Pa. they mostly use Aqua Velva, and a bottle of Pabst Blue Ribbon.  8^).

[zipper bowss]

Hey George,that reminds me of prom night in high school!    
Bill

[NoCams]

I live bout 50 miles from Jack Daniels, George Dickel distilleries and they sell the corn mash leftovers after the distilling process to all the local hog farmers.

nocams

[Roy Steele]

We use it but not for beer.