Goats or a Pig?

[feedstorechick]

We used hog panels for pigs. I am not good at stretching fence wire.

Hog panels are very heavy welded wire with smaller squares at the bottom and larger ones at the top. The ones I've seen are 42" tall and in 16' lengths, so you need a trailer to haul them, but with some t-posts, it makes a fast, inexpensive fence.

For goats, you could use something a little taller. Livestock panels with 4"x4" squares come 4'' tall and 20' long.

Most electric fencing for livestock is an electrified wire that sets several inches away from the fence. Depending on what you are trying to keep in, you could run one strand or several.

If you want a mesh type portable electric fence go to premier1supplies.com,
They have models for poultry, goats and sheep, but I can't see using it for a pig.

 

[wombat]

Usually 12.5 gauge high tensile wire is used, though anything in the 10 gauge to 14 gauge is workable.


Here's some good basic info:

http://www.tractorsupply.com/webapp...culture/agriculture_install_an_electric_fence

The Tractor Supply info I linked above shows an electric fence. You may be able to just put up a woven wire fence and use hot wires at the top and bottom, inside the fence on insulators.

Do be careful about the location of watering tanks, water lines, and other sources of ground. Also, never electrify barbed wire.

If you're going to get hogs, I'd suggest hog panels to either side of a gate, and don't electrify the gate or you'll have a hard time getting them to go through it.

 

[jojo@rolling acres farm]

I mentioned in my previous post that we use hog panels. But our goats are fainters and they don't jump the fence. With goats that do - you can string a couple of strands of barbless wire above the hog panels. I like the hog panels because they really hold up a lot better than some of the other fencing out there. Sometimes, when you use the wire fencing that the goats can "walk up" the fence starts to bag and sag between posts...sooner or later - no matter how tight you seem to stretch it initially. I think it is harder to work with while stretching it too. If your goats will have horns...the hog panels hold up a lot better against horns too.

 

[Julie_A]

jojo@rolling acres farm :

I mentioned in my previous post that we use hog panels. But our goats are fainters and they don't jump the fence. With goats that do - you can string a couple of strands of barbless wire above the hog panels. I like the hog panels because they really hold up a lot better than some of the other fencing out there. Sometimes, when you use the wire fencing that the goats can "walk up" the fence starts to bag and sag between posts...sooner or later - no matter how tight you seem to stretch it initially. I think it is harder to work with while stretching it too. If your goats will have horns...the hog panels hold up a lot better against horns too.

Hog panels.... great suggestion. Our stretched the wire and climbed until we put the strand of electric fence.​

 

[cwhit590]

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That is something to consider.

I keep my chickens at my friends house and they have 2 pigs right now...sometimes my chickens have gotten into their outdoor run, but the pigs haven't eaten them. They usually ignore the chickens....sometimes they will come to check them out but the birds have been able to outmaneuver them. It seems like as long as the birds are able to escape thru or over the fencing they are fine...but as was mentioned, pigs can eat chickens...probably depends on the pig (and how hungry it is!).
Before my friends put up a hot wire, the pigs rooted/bent the fencing and got into my chickens run. According to my friends 1 of the pigs managed to squeeze thru my little chicken door and get into the coop...but it just wanted to eat the chicken feed!

Last fall I was visiting a friend whose family has a hog farm...I looked over in one of the pens just in time to see a sow eating another sow's newborn piglet...that was disturbing

so yeah, be careful! Pigs can eat anything!