we make a permanent training pen with hard panel on the outside and poly wire on the inside and keep the pigs in for ~ 2 weeks. Since its permanent, we use a deep litter system with woodchips and refresh per batch of pigs and at the end of the season we put the entire pen's worth of woodchips in windrows to compost for a year then spread on the fields. Also, we put hog panel beneath the waterer so they don't root and make wallows at their waterer. We put rebar into the ground and bend the end to hold the hog panel in the ground.
we make a permanent training pen with hard panel on the outside and poly wire on the inside and keep the pigs in for ~ 2 weeks. Since its permanent, we use a deep litter system with woodchips and refresh per batch of pigs and at the end of the season we put the entire pen's worth of woodchips in windrows to compost for a year then spread on the fields. Also, we put hog panel beneath the waterer so they don't root and make wallows at their waterer. We put rebar into the ground and bend the end to hold the hog panel in the ground.
Sounds like a great set up! I'll have to use that hog panel under the waterer.
@@smallscalerevivaljust trying to make it easier on us, the land, and the animals. I love what you’re doing brother!
It makes my heart warm when I see pigs in the woods