Decided to get 2 Pigs to raise!

LOOKS GREAT!!!We have 2 right now we are fattening up.. Thing we learned (not first time raising) is that the more fence posts the better! We have 4 t posts per panel. They find a way to push under after all the goody stuff is gone from their pens and it is just one big mud hole. Water source.... HAS to be either very heavy or really tied down or over it goes.... same goes for the feeder.... Our one hog is big enough now she will rut it all over the pen and then with all the rain we have had it is not so fun to go drag it back over the fence! They will eat most anything.. ours will not eat.. potato peelings or carrots. All other scraps are fair game. We also give them all the "discard" things after chicken butchering is done all except feathers... that's a no no... didn't want them to put 2 and 2 together cause the hens like to go over and eat what corn they can scratch up. They love deer carcasses too. So funny watching them hold a bone down with their feet and pull the meat off. VERY smart animals.


April

Yeah the bigger they get the more bored they become with their pen and want what is on the other side of the fence. To a pig the grass is greener for sure. Hot wire I found works great for them... we just didnt put any on the bottom of this pen.....




April

you got the type of pigs I wonted

My pigs roam several acres.  I have 9 sows and 2 boars, 5 growers, and 9 2-week olds.  They are GOS pigs, except for 3 that are large black crosses.

Here is my 6 year old 800lb boar.

Nice looking pigs.  I agree with otheres  you need more T posts per panel. I would also consider  a couple strands of electric wire on the inside. The electric wire is your best friend when it comes to keeping in your pigs.  I know this picture is blurred but my pen has 2 strands of electric wire on the inside and it holds my 2 girls just fine. 

Livingzoo, I had to do a double take of your boar to see which end his head was on...lol. I love those big old pigs!

Nate, I wish my husband could "throw together" a pen like that! Give your pigs a flake of hay to munch on. It helps their digestion and pigs love to graze, but hay will do when they don't have grass. Nice looking pigs!