Late last year I bought a Pig Brig trap and used it at several locations around the ranch to catch/kill about 25 hogs. Its main drawback it that it took several days in a row of conditioning the pigs to going under the edge of the net before you could actually “set” the trap and catch them. The larger sounders on my ranch rarely come back to the same feeder two nights in a row, making it difficult to condition them to the trap. So I decided to build a corral trap with a remote control gate. I welded up a guillotine trap door, set up a circle of 20 tposts and attached five foot by 20 foot cattle panels arranged in a 30 foot diameter circle.
Got it all finished the day before yesterday, but on the first night only one pig showed up and he just kept circling the trap and I never saw him go inside. Yesterday, just before dark, a sounder of two sows and five piglets showed up and in just a few minutes they were all inside. I pressed the magic button on my phone and the gate dropped just as planned. This morning I had 7 pigs to deliver to the drop box.
Not a bad start… just need to build a couple more of these and maybe the piggies will quit digging up my front yard.