Pigs in Chicken Run

[EdgeC]

I have a 50'x25' chicken run, with a metal coop inside. I tend to open the gates and let the chickens/ducks/geese free range. In the fruit orchards during the day, coop at night.
Think if I added a internal hot wire (electric fencing on the bottom of the run walls) I could house two, 10 week hogs inside the run?

Run is just chicken wire, so would be using the hot wire to keep the pigs off the fence. If you think it can't be done long term, what about short term (Few months, while we build them a nice one)?

Edit: I don't know how many birds I have, stopped counting. So not sure how to tell if I take any losses (aside from seeing it) I assume a pig if it did catch one, would eat everything right? They are very skittish and my birds are well, used to a strong pecking order and they might scare the pigs enough they stay away?

 

[GodLovesU]

I’ve heard of pigs eating chickens but I guess it might depend on the age of the bird and the pig.

 

[EdgeC]

I’ve heard of pigs eating chickens but I guess it might depend on the age of the bird and the pig.

No chicks, all are extra large (brahma/austrolorp). I did stick them in it (20 mins ago). So far they are content running into the fence, going to add a hotwire later today. Roosters on the other hand, are watching them like a hawk. (I like my roosters (meat birds) free range super early before I put them back into the greenmile/ let the hens out.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Idk what kind of pigs you have but I had Kunes. A lot of my chickens and ducks with free range and often got in the pigs pens the pigs never tried to eat them adults juveniles or chicks. That may have been because of what breed they were.
Kunes aren't huge pigs but they were hell on fencing. Even the smaller not half grown ones would walk straight through chicken wire.
I'd really watch that. If you're one hot wire doesn't stop them they'll destroy all that fencing in no time.

 

[EdgeC]

Idk what kind of pigs you have but I had Kunes. A lot of my chickens and ducks with free range and often got in the pigs pens the pigs never tried to eat them adults juveniles or chicks. That may have been because of what breed they were.
Kunes aren't huge pigs but they were hell on fencing. Even the smaller not half grown ones would walk straight through chicken wire.
I'd really watch that. If you're one hot wire doesn't stop them they'll destroy all that fencing in no time.

Yes, they did test all of the fence and somehow it survived... So they stopped for now. They have tried to dig out, but I have tree trunks berried around the run on the inside. They will rot in a few years (was designed to slow down the birds digging on the edges). We have two types, wanted to cross them for meat.

Boar is Magalista and the sow hereford.

I only intend to keep them in there for a month, two max. So hopefully it continues to keep them content. I will just make sure they have food all the time.

Any ideas or things I should think about, that I am not realizing I am missing?

 

[EdgeC]

Update: Added about 600lbs worth of acorn to the run. Should keep them busy. They have gave up digging.

Think there is anything else we can do, to uhh keep them happy/busy? Also adding photos of them. These two will be non-consumption breeder pigs... aka my wife's pets.

Ignore the red on the blanket, its just "blood splatter" print.

Boar(Left Side: Magalista) is Elvis Pigsley and the sow(Right Side: Hereford) is Priscilla Pigsley.