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Perfect pig fencing is probably the age old problem for most small time pig raisers. It is very important to have good pig fencing, if you want to stay on speaking terms with your neighbors. We prefer the more rustic look. The wooden stakes looked rustic enough, but rotted at the ground level, especially after the pigs got done scratching. That was just a matter of switchng to metal fence posts.
The metal posts worked just fine, until the pigs figured out how to lift them out of the ground. It seems that every time you get one or another little problem solved with the pigs, they just create another one. This was not a problem, we just put the posts in deeper. That worked for about a month. They went over the top.
In order to make the pen inpenetrable, we dug a trench all the way around the pen, about a foot down and about nine inches or so wide. We then poured cement into the trench and set our metal posts in it. We set the posts so that there was a post at either end of each pig panel and two in the middle. Just as things set up a bit, we brought in the pig panels and sunk them into the cement about two inches. You have to work pretty fast or you won't be able to get the panels into the cement. Make sure to wire the panels to the posts, this will be only temporary. When every thing is set hard, weld the panels to the posts. For your climbers, run a line or two of barbed wire all the way around.
For two years now, our pigs have stayed penned up, and our neighbors, well they miss the apology roasts and chops.
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