Which has a stronger odor? Koolaid or corn dust? Koolaid.. I've had the same hogs for atleast 3 months in a row when I first set up the feeder. Same hogs. I don't have 20 or 30 different ones coming in. The most I've ever had was 10. Easy to tell them apart in my trail camera. I started putting out koolaid and within 2 days I've gotten new hogs. What I meant from the phrase " new and bigger hogs " was I get more ( different ) hogs constantly and pulling in the bigger hogs more often then when I just keep the corn feeder going. The bigger ( 250# plus ) ones may only come thru a handful of times each, but it is usually always within a few days of using the koolaid trick. I have seen this myself and wouldn't offer it as a tip if it didn't work for me... Give it a try. Buy a few quarts of koolaid, put some out this week, wait 2 weeks do it again, and then 2 more weeks do it again. If it doesn't work, your out $7 - $8 bucks. It works for me...
I fully understand the good intentions and appreciate them.
I have tried more than a dozen other special recipes, charted my hunting success and game camera images of hogs by solunar tables, hunting success and game camera images by moon phases, etc., and have yet to find any patterning that produces consistent results. I have even done the Jello and Kool-Aid in with the corn and the raccoons loved it. I really would like something like this to work, but trying it for six weeks won't produce in positive results that I can tie to Kool-Aid, I am afraid. The Halloween-Christmas acorn bounty is running out now and the temps should be getting progressively colder and the hogs will be needing more food. Hogs will be hitting the feeders in my area again very soon and have already started.
I love hunting hogs and would really like something like this to work, but adding flavoring to a location already known to be a food source by the local hog population isn't convincing as being causative. That the hogs tracks the Kool-Aid along trails and make Kool-Aid lines leading to your kill zone feeder is a new angle I have not heard before. It was my understanding from the experts that hogs could already smell corn over extremely long distances. Interesting.
For me, it sounds like the best time to test this will be next year when the mast is on the ground and the hogs are much less apt to come to the corn.