(re) Training Pigs to Electric Fence
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2017
- When we first got our American Guinea Hogs in late April 2017, I put them in a corral with a single strand of electric polywire going around the perimeter so I could train them to electric fencing. In early June, I moved the sheep away and moved the energizer for the fence as well. It didn't take long for the pigs to realize the electric strand was no longer electrified. They tore the strand out.
It's time to get the pigs into a rotational grazing system. First, I need to retrain them to electric fencing since it has been awhile. I install Premier One Pig Quick Fencing with an Intellishock 120 solar powered fence energizer.
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Dan, you are such a go-getter! If one thing doesn't work, you're on to another approach to the issue at hand. I'm grateful that you decided to bring us all along on your journey. You've helped me immensely with my challenges here on my homestead, and I'm sure you've helped many of your viewers. Keep it up!
Thank you for the encouragement!
I'm very excited to see the continued transformation of your homestead. I think the solar, electric fence was a great choice. I also love all your hats haha.
I never thought this would be a topic of interest for Mr....and yet....here I am, enjoying and learning from you! Thanks 🐽
I love watching your videos! I always learn so much! Thank you for sharing!
Loves those electric fences. Clara may need her own little spot so she can stay near the house. 😊. She is adorable.
I have seen the fencing you have used a lot on different channels and everyone seems happy with it. Clara is still a cutie. lol tyfs Pat
I just love Clara! She's so little and adorable!
Great video. We are starting to clear land for our new pigs this spring. I was leaning toward the premier 1 pig fence as we love their other fencing. I think this sealed the deal. We will have them Ina wooded area so will be using solar as well. God Bless! Kevin
I had good success with the premier pig fence. I recommend it
I have the solar 60 from premier 1 and like it a bunch.
Thank you learning so much from you
Dan!!! Dude you are rocking it! I'll be asking soooo many questions come 2018! Hahahaha.
You really have become the grass fed Homestead! Need to go back and watch your videos again, I've been off of CZcams since Finley was born...so please don't be mad at me! Lol!!
I totally understand! Finley plus three other children plus your own channel... say no more brother!
The Grass-fed Homestead where u get that solar electric fence?
Dan, You had quite the crash course in pigs / piglet care! lol You had a good learning experience...
Indeed! It's been interesting and fun. Any chance you're coming down from BC for the meetup?
Hope all goes well in the training. My fences haven't been working we've had such dry weather I had to retrain my goats to a tether setup.
I saved large coils of two conductor telephone wire designed to go from utility pol to pole so it is very strong. It is steel wire with a copper outer layer and rubber insulated.so I can run it from tree to tree ore on or under the ground. It is designed to not loose voltage over long distances and with 2 wires I can run one hot wire and one ground wire so in dry conditions there is not a failure to ground.
It's been a while great video
It has! I thought I lost you! Thank you!
Could you please make a homestead tour because it is sometimes confusing to kow where everything is
If you know where you are going to need to move that solar energizer and don't want to worry about moving the ground rod maybe get a few more ground rods and pound them in where needed and then you would to just hook it up.
Interesting rationale re: running forward. I'd never considered that.
Dan your solution of a solar charger is good, I like solar chargers. I've watched a lot of your vids, but nowhere near all of them and I tend to not want to comment on really old stuff because you may have changed things in the meantime...
Here's what I'd have done to cross the driveway. You get a cheap hose from like WalMart. Unwind it on the driveway and let it lay a few hours or a day til it relaxes and lays flat. Take some of your baling wire and twist the ends of a couple of them together. Cut the male end off the hose and toss it in the garbage. Measure from the top of one fence, across the driveway and up to the top of the other fence, cut hose to that length. Fish your baling wire through the hose, attach to your polywire and drag it through. Put an electric fence gate handle on the 'far' side to attach it, then zip tie or wire the hose to the fence post at ground level, perhaps up higher too... then do the same thing to the side where the electric comes from. If you did this at the street end of your driveway you could just go up your perimeter fence (kept electrified?) and wire it right to the fenceline electric wire, without having to use the gate handles. This is how we ran electric to different paddocks of our (20 acre) farm running off of one charger. Give the female end and any remaining hose to your neighbor with the horses, they come in handy for leaving on spigots to fill water buckets...
I was watching another homesteader and I forget what channel it was, but he could get huge "tarps" for free or nearly free by getting the used billboards, apparently the advertising is printed on tarp like material - and the off side was black. This got me to thinking of your bracken problem. Is there a billboard advertising company anywhere near you closer than Spokane? Possibly get some of those, or purchase black tarps, and next year when the brackens start to grow cover them over with black tarp. Weight down the corners. Let those sit in the sun a few weeks and it should kill everything under the tarp. Move the tarp down to the next section of bracken and repeat (and scythe/cut down any other bracken not covered). I would then put down a bunch of mulch then some wood chips and toss on some grass seed of the type you do want grown. You have mentioned an organic cow farm near you, perhaps you can get organic mulch from them, free for the hauling would be best. And actually you could cover those bracken areas with mulch and wood chips now and even when snow is on the ground and cross your fingers the bracken are vastly reduced in the upcoming year.
In older videos I noticed dead brown pine trees that have since been removed. I do see live pine trees with dead spots in them. This makes me wonder just why. I think I'd take some pictures of the trees down to the county extension agent and see if they can give you any ideas if it's gypsy moth, borer beetle or other pest damage. Also those aspen/poplars back by your creek will overwhelm your farm if you let them. They can grow by seeding or by suckers. I would chop down any suckers and smaller trees, leaving the big ones alone. Those big ones protect your homestead from brutal north and easterly winds (if I'm judging correctly that your homestead is to the north of your road). They should also slow down and maybe even stop fire from coming from that direction, though their fallen leaves will burn... I would chip my removed trees for my own wood chips, or you could figure out where you need a swale and make a hugelkutur 'swale' out of them.
One last thing. You have mentioned wanting to map your property but it costs a lot. A free way to do this is when you get a good virgin snowfall just go out and take a look at your land. You will see the dips and ridges easily. Make a mental map of that.
Thank you! I think you have the record for the longest comment! ; ) Great suggestions. I think the billboard tarp idea came from Doug and Stacy. I asked them what the material is made of and they didn't reply. I'm assuming it is vinyl which is a disqualifier for me but it's worth investigating further.
I believe it did come from Doug, he was using them under chips to make paths between his raised beds. I didn't think about what they might be made of being compatible with your homestead... but I'm sure there's something that could work. Maybe that greenhouse plastic you use? Your paper feed sacks might work, open the top and bottom and cut down one side, then use all 3 plies together. I'd assume they'd use safe paper for putting the organic feed in. Then pile on mulch and deep wood chips. In your place I'd be waging outright war on those bracken ferns, scything them and ripping them up by the roots and disposing of their corpses at the transfer station. Guinea hens may help with your tick problem, but you need to raise half a dozen or so of them from chicks, so they well know exactly where their home is. They like high roosts, so I think a Suscovich style chicken tractor would work with roosting bar installed about chest high.
How are your rabbits doing in the little rabbit tractor you built? It seems like a nice idea I want to try.
More Clara
Please keep us informed about the electric fence. I have Premier one fences and none of my sheep, goats or pigs respect them. I am hoping to learn from you.
JS Marlin - with electric net fencing you need a minimum of .45 joules per 164 ft of netting. Also any high grass/weeds needs to be cut down along the fence line. Make sure only the bottom of the netting is touching the ground or it will ground out the whole thing. I bought extra step in posts to lift up the middle sags also since 12 ft is a large stretch with goats constantly testing & I put extra posts in each corner to stretch it tight. My goats are perpetually testing the electric fence. Since I have 3, 165 ft fences tied together, I bought a solar charger with 1.6 joules - they respect it now! Some coyotes tried to come in a couple nights back, boy did they yelp & haven't been back! I walk my fence line once or twice a day & listen for any spot of electricity zapping the ground, weed, stick...or if one of my goats doesn't seem bothered by being zapped, I check the fence line. You need to think of these electric netting fencing more as containment pens over confinement pens. Good luck!
are you going to castrate them yourself, or get someone in to show you how to? that would be a good video.
I did that a couple months back in this video: czcams.com/video/xLbEeqLul4Y/video.html
no hog farmer trains their pigs on an electric fence the only time hog farmers use an electric fence is when the hogs get out of a regular panel fence there is no need to train hogs on an electric fence no hog farmer has ever done that I've raised pigs when i was a kid and i never used an electric fence i didn't need to use an electric fence the pigs you bought in your video were never used to an electric fence the only time you have an electric fence in with the pigs is to keep them from trying to root out of the pen if you're going to put pigs and electric fence have them in an electric fence but don't have an electric fence inside the pen with them if they're not getting out talk to someone hog farmers they'ii tell you what you need to do what you need to have and how to keep the pigs in without using an electric fence on the inside of the panel fence just want to share my knowledge of what little I know of now if you want to have a good fence get you some gated sheet metal make your trench put thick corner posts at each corner and in the middle and wherever you need thick posts take your sheet metal overlap it on the posts take a bunch of rocks and put on the inside and on the outside and put the dirt on the on top of the rocks inside and out of the hog pen keep your hogs from getting out that way you won't have to worry about putting electric fence on the inside so build an i'm holding with heavy posts and gated sheet metal and then just put you a plank fence at the top you'll be surprised how well your pigs will like it the rocks on the inside and outside will keep the house from pushing on the inside cuz it can't go nowhere so take my knowledge and use it and you'll be surprised how far you can actually go also give your pig some shady area too they will like that cuz pigs get overheated they'll get sick on you so give him a shady area so they don't get overheated and make sure they got plenty of water in the heat you don't want to lose none