Kaput Feral Hog Bait

NOTE: You must complete the Feral Hog Stewardship Training and have a certificate showing you have completed and passed the curriculum. Please click this link to start your course. Orders for Feral Hog Bait WILL NOT SHIP until you have completed training and sent us your certificate to verify.

This product is a restricted use pesticide and must have a certified applicator license to be able to purchase.

Kaput Feral Hog Bait, manufactured by Kaput, is a specially formulated feral hog bait that effectively reduces hog populations, minimizing risks to other wildlife and their damage to the environment. 

The active ingredient warfarin 0.005%, helps to eliminate feral hogs by acting as a blood thinner, leading to a quick population reduction within several days. Hogs have a unique sensitivity to this chemical, making it an ideal choice for targeted control for farmers, agricultural land owners, and animal control specialists. 

Kaput Feral Hog Bait is a unique warfarin-based bait that ensures minimal environmental impact while delivering reliable results in feral hog numbers. By targeting feral hogs specifically, this granular bait can reduce soil erosion, vegetation loss, and competition for food and water within local wildlife populations, which is a common problem caused by hog populations. 

Tools Needed

This bait may only be applied in a hog feeder equipped with a heavy lid (minimum of 17 lbs. of total weight) on bait compartments. 

If possible, apply the bait in these feeders within fenced areas. 

How to Use

• Step 1: Before applying this product, observe the area selected for treatment to identify where hog activity and trails are located. Look for evidence of recent activity, including hog sightings, hog damage to crops, rooting of the soil, hog wallows, and fresh hog tracks and fecal matter. 
• Step 2: Place the hog feeders in or near probable resting areas for hogs, including brush along streams, dense cover, and tall vegetation. Do not place feeders in open areas in crops, fields, or pastures. From one to three bait feeders may be used per placement location, according to the apartment number of hogs visiting the location. Three dispensers spaced no more than 10 feet apart may be used where hog numbers are excessive. Secure the feeders into place, so that they cannot tip them over, by use of T-posts or by tying the feeders to trees or shrubs. 
• Step 3: After the feeders are secured and situated into place, feral hogs should be conditioned to feed from them before placing the Kaput Feral Hog Bait. To accomplish this, load the feeding compartments with a non-toxic feed bait, and open the lids to the feeding compartments to about 6 inches so the hogs can access the feed with little difficulty. Load about 25 to 50 lbs. of non-toxic feed into each hog feeder. Provide access to the feeders for 3-6 weeks, until hogs are feeding readily from the feeders. 
• Step 4: After feral hogs have been conditioned to take non-toxic feed from the feeders bait compartment, remove all of the non-toxic feed remaining in the feeders. Add 25 to 50 lbs. of Kaput Feral Hog Bait to each feeder and close the lids to the bait compartments so that hogs must lift the doors with their snouts to access the bait. Monitor feeders every 1 to 4 days once treatment has begun to determine whether hogs are accessing bait, to access whether bait is being spilled around feeders, and to replenish bait if needed. Refil the feeders if the bait is significantly depleted or degraded, and there is evidence of hog activity at the feeder. 
• Step 5: As bait take and hog numbers decline, the feeders may be monitored at 5-day intervals, but site maintenance must continue as described on the product label. Dead hogs may begin to appear in or near treatment areas within 4-7 days after bait placement. Applicators must return to the treatment site within 4 days after the first bait placements were made, and at 2-4 day intervals thereafter, to inspect the site for evidence of dead or dying feral hogs. All carcasses found must be properly disposed of. You may bury carcasses on site in holes dug deeply enough that the entire carcass is at least 18 inches below the ground surface. Cover the buried carcass to the level of the surrounding ground. 

Where to Use

Kaput Feral Hog Bait can be used in feeders on pastures, rangelands, forests, non-crop areas, and crop lands. 

If possible, apply the bait in these feeders within fenced areas. 

Do not apply this bait directly on the ground, including all types of ground surfaces (bare or plant covered, ground, paved surfaces etc.). 

When to Use

Use when you first notice hog signs, damages, or see the animals themselves. 

Safety Information

Kaput Feral Hog Bait is safe to use around children and pets when applied according to the product label instructions. Always wear the proper personal protective equipment (PPE) when handling and applying this product.

Do not expose children, pets, domesticed animals, or other non-target wildlife to this product. 

Do not allow livestock to graze on baited areas (whether fenced or open) during the baiting program. If bait is to be applied in areas used for grazing, ensure that all livestock are removed and excluded from baited areas before applying this product and for at least 90 days after toxic baits are removed from bait dispensers. 

Special Considerations 

Post bilingual caution signs (English and Spanish) in the treated areas to warn the public of the presence of the bait and to forbid disturbance of bait dispensers and hog carcasses. Post these signs on public roads, trails, and pathways within and at common points of access to treated areas. 

Failure to condition feral hogs to feeders or ending the conditioning period too early may reduce the number of hogs taken or prolong the period of time needed for toxic baiting. 

A dye in this product will impart a blue color to the fatty tissues of hogs that have eaten this bait.