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If you don't get it check your spam folder.Liz
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Just replied back. We will probably go with second choice due to them being almost in our backyard!! Greatly appreciative. We have a lot going on now, but hopefully I will contact them in the next couple of weeks.
Again THANX!
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Hope it works out well for you. I have no idea if they have stock for sale right now BUT it doesn't sound like you are quite ready yet anyways.
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I'll be dang if I just said no problem with these things and went out yesterday to check on things out back and there was ground rooted and tore up in 2 big 25'x50' sections..... Well I guess we take care of this first. Suppose I'll bait them for a bit, set up large fenced in area with trap door, keep baiting them and once their comfortable set the trap door and we will have us some feral hogs. So to answer your question thats my first game plan and we will see how it goes.Bossroo said:I have heard and saw on TV that your part of the country has quite a few wild/ feral pigs running around. These pigs are rappidly expanding their range in Cal. too , as in just about 10 miles from my ranch near Fresno, Cal.. One pig owner near my ranch had 3 sows in a pen, a feral boar destroyed that pen's fencing and ran off with them. How are you preparing to keep your female pigs from being bred by one of these feral boars, or stollen by them? Also, the amourous feral boar just may want to pick a fight with your breeding boar, what then?
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OH NO! Well at least you won't lack pork this winter! BUT seriously you need to build yourself some very strong electric fence. Regular woven wire will not cut it. Get your perimeter fenced with Hi-Tensile woven wire & put at least a 12Joule electric fencer on there. Solar will not be man enough.
You really have to be careful & I cannot stress that enough. You probably have never seen a boar fight but it is not a pleasant thing to watch - they will fight to the death if one doesn't give up or you somehow cannot separate them PLUS you do not want disease on your farm. If you cannot prove that you are keeping the feral pigs out you will have a hard job selling your pigs.
Yes good fencing will cost time & money but it will be well worth it & you will sleep much better at night
Liz
You really have to be careful & I cannot stress that enough. You probably have never seen a boar fight but it is not a pleasant thing to watch - they will fight to the death if one doesn't give up or you somehow cannot separate them PLUS you do not want disease on your farm. If you cannot prove that you are keeping the feral pigs out you will have a hard job selling your pigs.
Yes good fencing will cost time & money but it will be well worth it & you will sleep much better at night
Liz
