misfitmorgan
Herd Master
There is a difference between 4h pigs and breeding pigs. Breeding pigs get 400-600lbs and several years old....4h pigs usually are sold by 250lbs and 6 months old. 4h pigs are usually also made into barrows so no boars around. I will take a picture of what the pigs did to our chain link gate and of what they did to one of our other thick mesh panels when i get home from work. i dont know how your friend is keeping their pigs in chain link without electric or anything but i can tell you it will not work if they are already going thru hog panels and electric fence.
Your fencing in the pictures doesnt look thick enough to be hog panels for the picture showing the stump and the other damaged wire picture is definitely not hog panels. If you put up hog panels and 2-3 runs of hot wire, as someone mention before 4" apart.
There is a major flaw in that shelter for a pig.....pigs love to flip stuff over and roll it around and generally play with it, you have given them lovely 2x4 "handles" a convenient distance from the ground to do just that. Pigs have very strong necks because they are ment to dig and rut around in he dirt for their food. If you cant or dont want to do a porta-hut or the cinderblocks you can alternatively make a hog hut that is "hog proof." Make your hut pig enough for all three pigs to be in it at once comfortably if possible. Get 4x4 posts and plant them in the ground then attach 2x4 or 2x6 to the posts as close to the ground as you can but not touching unless your using treated wood. Put a few more 2x4s up the "walls" to make it all sturdy and solid. Then do the same on the inside of the posts which would be the inside of the shelter. Dig down in the ground 3-4" then put wood sheeting on the outside and inside 2x4s and make sure the sheeting goes all the way down to the bottom of the 3-4" trench you dug and that there are no edges of the sheeting sticking off that the pigs could easily get a hold of. Make a roof on top and they should not be able to tumble it over because they will have nothing to grab onto. Hopefully that makes sense...basically your making smooth walls without any 2x4s sticking out where the pigs can get them and burying the bottom edge of the sheeting a few inches so they cant get their nose under that easily.
Your fencing in the pictures doesnt look thick enough to be hog panels for the picture showing the stump and the other damaged wire picture is definitely not hog panels. If you put up hog panels and 2-3 runs of hot wire, as someone mention before 4" apart.
There is a major flaw in that shelter for a pig.....pigs love to flip stuff over and roll it around and generally play with it, you have given them lovely 2x4 "handles" a convenient distance from the ground to do just that. Pigs have very strong necks because they are ment to dig and rut around in he dirt for their food. If you cant or dont want to do a porta-hut or the cinderblocks you can alternatively make a hog hut that is "hog proof." Make your hut pig enough for all three pigs to be in it at once comfortably if possible. Get 4x4 posts and plant them in the ground then attach 2x4 or 2x6 to the posts as close to the ground as you can but not touching unless your using treated wood. Put a few more 2x4s up the "walls" to make it all sturdy and solid. Then do the same on the inside of the posts which would be the inside of the shelter. Dig down in the ground 3-4" then put wood sheeting on the outside and inside 2x4s and make sure the sheeting goes all the way down to the bottom of the 3-4" trench you dug and that there are no edges of the sheeting sticking off that the pigs could easily get a hold of. Make a roof on top and they should not be able to tumble it over because they will have nothing to grab onto. Hopefully that makes sense...basically your making smooth walls without any 2x4s sticking out where the pigs can get them and burying the bottom edge of the sheeting a few inches so they cant get their nose under that easily.
