My Journey in Pig Raising: Chapter 1- fence building****PIC HEAVY****

[jdyson]

I would love some pigs but hubby said absolutely not, lol

 

[CookFarm]

I was wondering how this fencing has worked out for you. We are considering getting a couple of pigs and thought this looked like a really cool idea. Fencing has been the only thing that has kept us from getting the pigs. We currently have goats, chickens, turkeys, ducks, cats, dogs and 4 kids. Basically we have a lot of craziness at our house and would love to add to it. lol

 

[charnic44]

Pallet make great pens for hogs (my 4-H pig's pen is made of pallets, also) but instead on buying hinges, we drove T-Posts into the ground and lifted the pallets over the T-Posts. We used 1 T-Post for 3 pallets and then just used twine or rope to tie the pallets together. We didn't use electric fence either. If you don't want them to dig under the fence, build the pen where the ground isn't soft and don't give them a big mud hole. Pigs like to dig because the dirt is cold, so if you keep them cool, the won't dig. What we did is take PBC pipe and drilled tiny little holes in it. Then we hooked it up to a hose and put it to where the pigs could get sprayed by it and stay cool. Wonderful idea with the hinges (although kinda pricy).

 

[Vernboy]

Hi i'm into pigs as well and would like to learn every thing there is into starting my own farm of pigs

 

[teringeorge]

I use a single wire (electric with a solar charger) on the inside of my pens which are made up of old (free) chain link, one made of cattle panels, soon a pallet pen, etc. My pigs have learned to stay away from the fence, no matter what it is made of. A couple shocks and they stay away from the fence. I have a little trouble getting them to come out of the pen when I move them to another pen (wire removed from doorway) LOL! But when they hear me shake the feed bucket, it doesn't take them too long to slowly step through that opening!