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I'm wanting to pen off my feeders so the hogs can't get to it and the deer still can.
Took a look at some cattle/goat/hog pannels this weekend.
The hog panels were 34" tall, and I'm wondering if that's tall enough to keep the suckers out.

Also, do the hogs ever dig under the panels to get to feeders?

Hogs go under, not over, so the height should be OK. You may also need skirts, or panels bent 90 degrees to keep hogs from digging/rooting under your hog fence/panels. The upright half of the skirt is wired to the fence. the half on the ground is staked down with wires loops, so those nasty critters can't root under the skirt.

DF

So how deep would you recommend the skirting to be so the hogs won't dig under?

Just on top of the ground, secured down with wire loops, so they can't get under the edge, like a camel with his nose under the tent...

They'll usually go to the bottom of the fence rather than backing up a couple of feet to find the edge of the skirt. When they hit the bottom of the fence, they're right in the middle of the skirt and can't dig thru heavy wire.

Works pretty good. I think some fence companies make the skirts already bent just right. You may want to check on that. A good friend has 1,000 acres of Red River bottom land high fenced for Whitetails. He has coyotes and hogs digging under the fence and I've suggested he needs to do the same thing, at least in places where washes occur and where signs of digging are seen. In his case, I con't think he'll need to skirt the whole fence, just parts.

In your case, you probably need the full treatment.

DF

If you could somehow run 1 electrafied wire at the ground level so that the deer couldn't come in contact with it you'd be GOLDEN for sure.They don't like electric fences for sure.

Thanks for the advice DF

I use a irrigation trencher and set the panels in about 10" deep. Best defense is to shoot all those worthless bastards and let em rot

If you set the panels in 10" deep, that only leave the panels 2' above ground. Does that keep the pigs out?
I've seen them do some crazy stuff to get in or out of places

+1

DF

Burying the bottom of the panels with a trencher should be effective, although sounds like a lot more work to me. If I did that, I'd probably check into 48" panels. You'll have to look at cost of materials and time, depending on how many of these set ups you plan to erect.

DF

Trenching is easy, I rent a machine for $50, hardest part is getting it outta the truck. Height Hasn't been an issue, they wanna go under, I put a strand of barb wire along to just in case. My new plots will have a hot wire running off solar along the bottom.

I think the type of soil determines trenching or skirting. If the soil is hard, they work fine just on top of the ground. If it's loose soil they can dig, but not usually going to happen in clay or rocky soil.

I personally would run them level with the ground until a problem aross. If they started to dig, I'd skirt it. Another idea is to drive pins and wire the top to the panel. Rebar and a steel blade will make alot of pins.

All of our hog pens, when I was a kid, had a strand of barbed wire about an inch above the ground and then woven wire above, but close to that. Course we ringed their nose too. miles

I had two feeders to fence, did some researching on the net. Decided to get the ecoonomy cattle panels cut them in two, which makes each panel twenty eight inches tall. I cut eight foot t post in two. Cost for both pens was around 220 bucks. I did'nt bury the panels. It's been a year and every now and then will have a boar get in it, but rarely. Little piglets may get in, through the larger panel squares, but they leave as soon as mama leaves. We have very sandy soil here to, easy for hogs to root. I do have dedicated hog feeders also at some stands, jsut for having fun, picking off hogs!!



This is why we needed them!

Cool pic with the pig wrestling the coon.

I would take those panels and build some traps around those feeders - get rid of the bunches.

Seeing hogs like that gives me an "itchy trigger finger."

I just don't like hogs, unless they're on a grill and subsequently, my plate...

DF

You have a couple big ol' boars!

My AR-15 and I are still awating an invite from anyone on here who has a bunch of pigs! I would LOVE to take it to Texas and put some bacon in my truck! Looks like a blast and I have heard they eat really well.

We use the same Hog panels on the ranch I hunt in Zapata Cnty. Put the small squares to the ground, only trench enough to prevent a gap where the panel meets the ground. Drive a "T" post every 8', We make ours 32' square. Use some good wire to tie the panels to the "T" post secure enough that they can not be lifted. From my experiance if they can get their nose under or lift the panel with their nose they will dig under.

Spiwonka,

Looks like you've got a 'coon resting peacefully near your feeder, second pic up from the bottom.