Post by Lesli on Nov 28, 2010 20:49:35 GMT -5
Trey came home for a long Thanksgiving Vacation. He has stayed super busy with his brother ds -Chase and his Dad (DH) and they have built some pretty great pens for the pigs. We have limited funds, but DH is great at improvising. And he is a welder (previously by trade). When we find the camera, (temporarily misplaced it since Thanksgiving... 
) we will take some pictures. But he used LOTS of T post quite close together and cattle panels for the height, he welded a galvanized pipe to the bottoms of all the panels to help keep them rigid.
He will be adding hot fence to the top or Squeaks will stand up and push on the top of the panel. If Squeaks pushes too much he will be adding a hot fence to the inside.
He also used galvanized pipe to build nice gates that swing either way in or out, which have already proven themselves invaluable! I have teased him in the past about 'his signature gate' (wired up with wire for the hinge) and I think it stuck in his craw.
But these are mighty fine with hinges! 
He also built a long cattle panel "chute" or hallway for the cows to bypass the hog pens and go to the smaller fenced area when we want to especially contained with more room and a round bale. This also is a 4 foot wide barrier to keep the wild hogs just far enough back hopefully to not cause problems with illnesses and such. I am so proud of all of the guys, Rich and boys.
We will be adding a covered area that will be a run in protection for the cows/and or hogs, and two farrowing houses before March 6
Lesli
) we will take some pictures. But he used LOTS of T post quite close together and cattle panels for the height, he welded a galvanized pipe to the bottoms of all the panels to help keep them rigid. He will be adding hot fence to the top or Squeaks will stand up and push on the top of the panel. If Squeaks pushes too much he will be adding a hot fence to the inside.
He also used galvanized pipe to build nice gates that swing either way in or out, which have already proven themselves invaluable! I have teased him in the past about 'his signature gate' (wired up with wire for the hinge) and I think it stuck in his craw.
But these are mighty fine with hinges! 
He also built a long cattle panel "chute" or hallway for the cows to bypass the hog pens and go to the smaller fenced area when we want to especially contained with more room and a round bale. This also is a 4 foot wide barrier to keep the wild hogs just far enough back hopefully to not cause problems with illnesses and such. I am so proud of all of the guys, Rich and boys.
We will be adding a covered area that will be a run in protection for the cows/and or hogs, and two farrowing houses before March 6
Lesli
Talk about spooked! There was the time my dh put my son out there with wild hogs all around him and took pics. 
Daisy would try to chase them off. But that worries me. As they are well known to carry psuedorabies. Rich being the hunter he is feeds them, but I think if we are going into the pig business we need to go ahead and get a good fence to keep them out. Alas, we can not afford such a fence anyway so for now we tolerate them. Sometimes you will go a long time without seeing them sometimes you see where they have rooted up our grass pretty well. But we have not had the terrible damage from the hogs that many around us have. They even were tearing up our schools practice football field, about 50 yards away from the new $1,000,000 track and field. They had Rich setting his trap. He did catch several there-- one was a 400lb boar who would gnash and pop his teeth at you if you got too close. I did find the camera, but have not gotten the pictures yet. It gets dark so early. I will try to get them this week.
