Free's piggie thread...new pics p 19

[ohiofarmgirl]

yep thats what we did - but we got field fence instead of panels (ok its what we had on hand...).

hum... lemme check something...ok i'm back. do you know jhm47 over on the herds site? he's a GREAT hog reference. i asked him about our stupid pigs who kept running thru the electric and this is what he replied to me:

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You've got a real dilemma. When pigs discover that they can escape, they are extremely hard to restrain again. I actually don't know what can be done at this stage. When we had pigs, they would rarely get out, but when they did, it quickly became a major problem, as you are experiencing.

I guess your best bet is to try and get them into a secure building for a week or so, and then gradually begin to let them out into a pen with your super-charged fencer. I would run a hot wire around the entire inside of the building and let them experience the fun of getting shocked whenever they touch the wire. As you know, pigs learn very quickly.

One thing---is your fencer properly grounded? If not, be sure to follow the grounding directions, or the proper shock will not be delivered. Also, if your ground is extremely dry, it won't conduct the electricity as well as if there is adequate moisture.

I have been in your predicament several times, and can empathize with your frustration. Good luck!
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there was no way we were gonna put them pigs in our barn so we modified his recommendation and we ran the field fence around the outside of the 3 strands of electric we had.... and now they cant get out. of course... now we have to MOVE them... sheesh! stupid pigs

but right now i'm making a pie with lard crust and its so beautiful.... i almost had a loving feeling for them pigs.

 

[TanksHill]

Wow, crazy pigs.

So how does a person who lives in a dry climate use a electric fence?


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[freemotion]

I will love them stupid pigs again when they are in the freezer! That is soooo far in the future!

Yes, our probems have to do with the drought and our very sandy soil. The sand goes down as far as we've ever dug, many feet. Water drains at an incredible pace here. And the topsoil is not very deep in my pasture since it was forest just a few short years ago.

I think if I put a grounding rod, as Pat suggests, over by the wallow area it will work better since the ground is always kept wet there. They are in jail in their little pen for now. Sheesh!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

I will love them stupid pigs again when they are in the freezer!

see i'm telling you.. them pigs are just awful.

when Bourbon Red told me that i'd be ready to shoot them pigs myself (the first year we got them) at the end of the season i thought he was the meanest person ever... and now...

well, now i'm pacing back and forth with a murderous look in my eye (*cocks 9mm* hums softly "listen to my 9 go bang.. midnite... time for a homicide..... here piggy piggy piggy.....)

them pigs are just bacon on legs.... there time will come... oh yes....

that reminds me, we're having chops for supper! *runs off to get some out of the freezer*

 

[patandchickens]

Thanks, Pat, I do have the "non-live" wires but I did NOT know that I could/should put a grounding rod from that wire.....we do have two grounding rods but they are near the fencer, far, far away from the pig fence.

No, wait, I may not have been clear? Don't put a ground rod on the non-live wires -- hook them TO THE GROUND TERMINAL OF YOUR FENCE CHARGER. (Either directly to that terminal, or to the existing ground rods which are of course themselves attched to the ground terminal of the fencer).

Just grounding the dead wires won't do much, especially since your soil is too dry to transmit charge well.

Or do I need to add a grounding rod to the panels? I could add one near their wallow, where the ground will always be wet. I hose it every day, sometimes twice.

That would help *too*, but remember that ground rod needs to be attached to the fencer's ground terminal

From measuring my stride decades ago when I was doing a little jumping with horses and needed to measure distances quickly when setting up jumps.

Me too, and isn't it WONDERFULLY useful?

Pat

 

[Blackbird]

How did they get out? They fly, remember??

Hehe.

No, we had a 16x16 area for the pigs next to one of the sheds made from cattle panel. Then we cut a hole in the shed for them to go in (we got them in the winter originally). Our shed was in two halves, during the winter the guineas and turkeys were on the far half, and the rabbits and some chickens were on the front half. The hole we cut went into the far half. At first we had a nice section of tin rigged up as a fence on the inside to keep them separate from the turkeys (Did you know pigs like eating turkeys? We didn't either - they also like puppies.), but then they got BIG. And they destroyed the piece of tin.

So, we let them have the entire back half of the shed. But soon enough they ripped into the front half. We got another cattle panel and nailed it to the side beams, but the shed was only ten feet wide, so it had to be bent in there. The shed was over 70 years old, a lot of the wood was pine, so you can imagine that the weight of a pig against it did not hold up. That is how they escaped.

If your piggers give you trouble at the corners of your panels they have U shaped bolts with a metal piece that you screw on to enclose around something - not sure if they are specifically used for fencing but that's what we have at the corners of a lot of our panels.

OFG... I have no words. Only laughter.

 

[~gd]

How did they get out? They fly, remember??

Hehe.

No, we had a 16x16 area for the pigs next to one of the sheds made from cattle panel. Then we cut a hole in the shed for them to go in (we got them in the winter originally). Our shed was in two halves, during the winter the guineas and turkeys were on the far half, and the rabbits and some chickens were on the front half. The hole we cut went into the far half. At first we had a nice section of tin rigged up as a fence on the inside to keep them separate from the turkeys (Did you know pigs like eating turkeys? We didn't either - they also like puppies.), but then they got BIG. And they destroyed the piece of tin.Pigs have been known to eat people too!~gd

So, we let them have the entire back half of the shed. But soon enough they ripped into the front half. We got another cattle panel and nailed it to the side beams, but the shed was only ten feet wide, so it had to be bent in there. The shed was over 70 years old, a lot of the wood was pine, so you can imagine that the weight of a pig against it did not hold up. That is how they escaped.

If your piggers give you trouble at the corners of your panels they have U shaped bolts with a metal piece that you screw on to enclose around something - not sure if they are specifically used for fencing but that's what we have at the corners of a lot of our panels.

OFG... I have no words. Only laughter.

 

[Wifezilla]

I read the Silence of the Lambs series. NO WAY am I getting pigs! I let the farmer down the highway raise them for me. Mine should be ready next month. Yummmmmmm.....bacon!

 

[noobiechickenlady]

"Be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm."

My ag teacher had 3 baby pigs brought to the outbuilding where we had class. Once they got big enough, Hambone and Bacon ate Porkchop, the runt. Evil things.

I still want a couple. I have serious bacon envy.

 

[freemotion]

They eat turkeys?? Each other??? PUPPIES?????