Fencing for pigs

[Jean]

We are taking delivery of our first ever weaners in mid-April but I want to get ahead with the fencing as holiday time will be here soon.

Please can you tell me at what height the strands need to be (ie, highest and lowest) and what is the best type of strands. By strands I mean the electric wire - there seems to be a huge variety out here (France) and I don't know if one is better than another.

Any other advice or "things we should know" would be helpful!

Thanks

[theabsinthefairy]

I kept mine behind sheep fencing, which is a grid network held up with the plastic struts, approx a metre high, and found that worked really well.

It was also easier to move as a square to quarter the field they were living in, with the arc in the centre.

I bought the fencing with struts at a local farmers market.

Because they are such good escape artists I think there is a real knack to getting the strand fencing right, and I could not take that risk as once out they could easily have escaped from the field through the old and mostly fallen down barbed wire fencing around the perimeter.

To be fair to the fat and lazy so and so's they did on a few occasions topple the plastic struts but never walked over the fencing to leave - far too easy to sit around and wait to be fed!

Monika