More About Pigs
“Wow! Looks like skim milk and chicken feed!”
The two piglets did not manage an escape yesterday. Using available materials, we beefed up the pen a bit, using pine logs along the bottom of the enclosure. Soon we will extend their range area by releasing them into a larger area constrained only with electric wire.
May 21st, 2009 at 9:40 am
Cattle and sheep learn quickly about electric fences, and they stay away. Especially sheep. If you have the fence on for two weeks when they are lambs, they stay away.
Only a shorn sheep is affected by an electric fence. If you put one up after they have a coat of wool, it doesn’t shock them, and the fence is worthless.
Pigs, however, don’t have to touch an electric wire to know whether it’s charged. Apparently, their bristles can detect the electicity.
And if the current stops, they’ll elope in a *heartbeat*.
So you need to keep the weeds down so they don’t short out the electric fence and drain the batteries. Thistle is pretty waxy, and you wouldn’t think it could ground an electric fence, but it appears to be one of the biggest culprits.
May 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am
Looks like breakfast to me….Who’s I’m not sure just yet…
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