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buddylee
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« on: October 14, 2009, 09:18:37 am » |
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Getting ready to build a 2 or 3 acre training pen. Looking to hear from folks who have built one. Would like to hear how you built it and well as what you built it with. I plan to keep one hog less than 100 pounds in mine. Planning on using 47" field fencing with t-post and telephone poles on corners and every 30-40 feet for added support. Not sure if barbed wire on top would do any good with hogs trying to climb over the top. Thinking of using short sections of rebar to anchor down the fence to the ground. Any advice on fence construction for a training pen would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Lee
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bparkerson
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« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2009, 11:18:33 am » |
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I know a fellow that used heavy guage 6ft chainlink. He used a trencher to bury about 6 or 8 inches of the wire. I think it worked out pretty good
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t.wilbanks
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« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2009, 11:29:04 am » |
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the one i built wasnt near that big , but we just used cattle panels and t-post, over lapping them about a foot for extra support and t- post about every 4 feet. we had a problem with the piglets getting out so we put chain link around it, and didnt have any more get out. our pen was round, and never had any pigs climb out, but had alot try.
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Jeff
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« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2009, 06:45:15 pm » |
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ive had pigs jump over 48 inch fence, but most arent that atheletic. if you dont mind losing one every now and then, 47 inches is fine. it you do mind, better go to at least 60 inches. the one that cleared mine like a whitetail was about a 100 pound sow.
dont put any hard corners on it. they can climb corners.
they wont beat themselves up so bad trying to get out it they can't see outside. you can use something like silt fence material on the wire to block their vision to the outside.
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Cutter
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2009, 08:30:43 pm » |
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barb or slick wire around the bottom and up about 1 foot really helps your field fence when they hit it. I have a 2 acre and 20 acre pen. Just field fence by itself sometime I have had the hog go through it when the dogs are pushing them, the jumping out I dont know about it my fkeld fence are 8 foot high.
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