would this work ?

[Georgia-Hawgs]

thinking about building a bay pen out of this. It will be wrapped in black plastic so the hog cant see through it. This would not be the permanent area for the hog. Just a place to work dogs. What do yall think? The area will be fairly large. One entire roll will do the whole thing though. Please let me know what yall think...thank yall.

[KevinN]

You'd have to put the T-post REAL close...maybe 2 feet apart...otherwise they'll root out....even then, it's questionable. Better off going with cattle panels (galvanized 16')

[charles]

This is what I use now.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/en/store/cattle-fence-48-in-h

I used the same 1 ur referring to and iv had hog blow through it. The 12.5ga filer stays won't hold up to a descent size hog hitting it. I went the cheap route at first but now I do it right the first time, even if the cost is a lil more.

But to answer ur question, yea, that will work for a lil while, depending on how big of a hog u put in there. Also, don't forget, to run a couple strands of barbed wire above the fence. Iv seen a 200lb sow clear a 5' fence. She scraped the fence going over, so if I would have put another strand a the top, it might had prevented it. I wasn't even running dogs on her, I had just put her in the pen, and in 5min, she was gone. Also, put ur t-posts 4' or 5' apart and a strand of barbed wire on the bottom to minimize them rooting out. I think I went with a t-post every 5' and put a 2 3/8" drill pipe where the 5th post would have went.

[Shotgun wg]

I have a hog about 125 pounds in a fence very similar. It's a tame hog that has been in the pen since small. He is calm and I only bay him with pups. He will walk up and sniff the pups. Like said my post are close. I wouldn't trust the fence with a big dog in with him.


Shotgun
Arkansas

[Georgia-Hawgs]

Thank yall. Like i say i am just considering this option. The hog will only be in there under close adult supervision...lol..and if it happened to bust out i would just toss the dogs over the fence right behind it. And are u saying you had one blow through it with black plastic wrapped around it to where the hog couldnt see through ? I can save up and get the pannels that i use for my traps but there 20$ a piece. That would be fairly expensive. im excited about this pen though. Its right beside the river and any company i have over can watch the bay from the deck on my house about 30 feet above the pen.

[Reuben]

I would use a 7 or 8 ft T-post on every other post so it can be driven down deeper...

[Curcross1987]

I built a 20 acre pen out of 50 in welded wire putting a t post every 12 feet with 36 in field fence hog ringed about a foot from the bottom where the other two feet laid flat on the ground and took a bob cat and pushed dirt over it never had one get out yet

[Bo Pugh]

i cant pull up the picture on the computer at work to see what your asking about but my bay pen is made out of netwire and its four foot tall. i used a few post and some trees as post. but i have a smaller pen in the corner with a slide up door i leave the hog in there most of the time until im ready to fool with some dogs. ive never had one run through the wire, it was several i thought was going to but usually after they hit it a few times they will settle down and not hit it anymore, and even if one or two get out their pretty east to replace. most of the big baypens around here are made of 4 foot netwire with a one strand electric fence run about 1foot off the ground and when your ready to fool with dogs just unplug the fence and the hog wont get close to it.

[halfbreed]

   my first pen I used the no climb horse wire , it was about 2x4 wire and I had a ton of large hogs bouncing off of it and it held up for years .

[Judge peel]

I used the same thing halfbreed and then lined it with pallets very durable

[sfullwood88]

I had a 2 acre pen out of regular field fencing and wood posts.
Stretched a strand of hog wire around the bottom of the whole pen . Made a 20 ft by 20 ft holding pen inside the 2 acre pen out of hog panel stapled to the inside of thicker wooden posts with posts closer together than usual probably every 5 foot. The holding pen is where I brought new hogs and put them in there for a couple days and fed the rest of the hogs near by. Usually when you let the new hog out he went straight to the pack on most occasions and didn't try to escape. The holding pen worked great for getting what hog you wanted to butcher out or training puppies or cutting boars whatever.