midnight pig delivery

EddieWalker · Oct 31, 2006

roxynoodle said:
I'm glad I didn't see them chasing my pig because I'd have been pretty mad... everyone who did though thought it was a hoot.

Sounds like you guys are having way too much fun there!!!!

Soundguy,

I'm not much into raising animals, but it is something that interests me. Do you have any pictures of how you fence them in? I've alwys been told pigs are worse than goats when trying to keep them behind a fence.

One thing I've been considering is building a large fenced area of at least half an acre and putting a one way gate on it to hold wild pigs. The idea is that they will come throught the gate for food, but not be able to get out. You make it big enough to hold several dozen at a time, and they will just keep coming.

I don't know if I believe it or not.

Eddie

Soundguy · Oct 31, 2006

Perhaps you make the area with 2 'bump' gates.. that is.. they go thru the first one, then the 2nd one.. that way. one coming in doesn't let another charge out.

I use either cattle or hog welded wire panels. it's tough stuff.. wire is almost 'pencil' sized. I prefer to use wood posts. but in a pinch have used metal t-post for sides.. not corners.. etc..

Soundguy

roxynoodle · Oct 31, 2006

Pigs are extremely intelligent and strong. I have heard stories of them kicking dirt at electric fencing until it shorted out in a spot and then they went through it. Sounds like the raptors of Jurrasic Park, lol! Mine is in chain link, but I think hog panels generally work well, too.

Generally, just seeing the pig keeps people out of the back yard. Most people are scared of him. He does look kind of scary with those tusks, but he's actually a big weenie.

Soundguy · Nov 1, 2006

I try to not keep pigs in chain link.. though i know that some people do, with no issues. The one time i had a pig in chain link, she put her 'rooter' into the chain link, made an oval motion with her head,and then walked thru the pig sized hole in the chain link she had just made. This all took about .25 seconds... and the pig was about.. oh.. 25-35# at the time..

Soundguy

Renze · Nov 1, 2006

Once my father sold old sows, one jumped off the truck's loading ramp, fell on its back and head, screamed and left off. As soon as my parents, neighbor and the truck driver came close, it took off screaming again. It ran about a kilometer into the bush, they have driven it back to the farmyard and locked it up with two old gates. The pig trader first emptied his truck and came back later that afternoon, when the sow was calmed. Then it was easy to load her up.

another time a weaner broke loose and ploughed up our neighbors turf... luckily we could catch it and tramp the sods back before our neighbor noticed.. When we told him what happened, he could take it, because the worst damage was already undone before he noticed..