Mysunwolf and Minihorses have it right.
Your pigs might not tear up the walls, but as they get larger and heavier they could crack the plywood, The floor is concrete so they can't root. BUT your entire barn will stink big time with no drainage, and they need access to fresh air and sunlight. They will also be happier if they can root for bugs and roots. How wide are the sections? They look like 8' x 12'? That is small for even one pig. Each one will grow to 235 lbs. or more by slaughter. Pigs will poo in one area usually, and if they are on dirt, the liquid will soak in leaving semi dry poop to shovel up each day. Our pigs used to dump their water to make a mud hole when the water got hot. Once the poop is wet, it smells a lot more.
In what area of the country are you located? You can keep them inside for a week or so, especially if you have coyotes or other predators and do not have Livestock Guardian Dogs. Then I would fence in an area outside for them. Give them a shady spot to get away from sun since pigs sunburn. Your hogs are Yorkshire, Landrace, Berkshire. York and Berks crossed is a Blue Butt, which is a white pig with a gray splash across the butt. Light colored pigs sunburn badly.My favorite fencing for hogs is metal corral panels lined with livestock panels about 3' up from the ground. Then put large timbers - either pole butts, or railroad ties around the bottom of the panels to prevent the pigs from rooting out. Pig are incredibly strong, and there are no handholds on a pig. Pick up your little piglets by the hind legs, otherwise they will scream. Later you will not be able to pick them up at all. Fair kids use long horse crops or lightweight canes to guide their pigs around the ring which is fine when the kids train their pigs! But to move home pigs more easily, you can make pig boards out of plywood, look on line for dimensions. Keep your knee bracing the board and push down when the pigs tries to get under the edge. Pigs turn away from solid fencing which is why you can herd them with the solid looking boards. Do NOT keep the pigs with poultry of any kind. Pigs are omnivores which means they will eat EVERYTHING! Our pigs ate our gander when he mistakenly got into their pen. He was a mean gander too!
If you are keeping all the pigs together, you can built J feeders out of plywood. There are plans in pig books and on line.You don't need to make a water barrel/lixit waterer. You can use a nice deep rubber water pan from the feed store. They need lots of fresh water every day. You will need to dump and change the water because if the water tub is very large they will lay in it and the water gets very dirty. You will need to check and refill the water frequently because they will dump it to make a mud bath to keep cool in the heat.
Use a good quality pig chow for your area - ask the feed store what they sell to Fair kids as a "grower" ration. The conversion rate for hogs is 4:2 depending on age. 4 lbs. of feed can convert into 2 lbs. of weight daily. Don't bother with a "finisher" ration since that is only for hogs going to Fair, and you want yours to grow as fast as possible so they can go too slaughter sooner. If you have any orchards or fruit trees, you can let the pigs eat all the dropped fruit. Rake it up and dump it into the pen. If it has bugs they will like it even more.
If you need to weigh the pigs, load them in the horse trailer and take them to the truck scales. Some people in our area used to use the dump scales. Weigh the trailer empty, load the pigs and go back. The difference will be what the pigs weigh. Divide by 3 and you have an approximate weight. Once all three weigh 1,000 lbs together, you can arrange to take them to slaughter.
A word of warning! Pigs have a dress out of 70-75% of their body weight since you will make sausage from everything that would otherwise be tossed. That will be about 200 lbs.+ of meat from each pig - Have a large freezer ready! Or you can sell one of the pig to a neighbor, They pay you for the pig, you deliver to the butcher with our pigs, and they pay the slaughter, cut and wrap, and sausage making fee direct to the butcher when they pick up their meat.
Hope this helps! Pigs are actually fun when you only have a couple. They are very smart and will greet you with soft grunts for treats and back scratchesor with angry screams if they think you are late feeding them their supper!
Have fun and enjoy your new piggies.
We have the 16qt. Auto waterer..
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