High tensile electric fence for hogs/pigs

Does anyone here use high tensile electric wire to keep in their pigs? If so, how many wires and the spacing for post and wires. Another issue is that there are wild hogs in the area where I plan on fencing in .

Welcome to the forum.

We have feral hogs where I live.  Folks use field fencing to keep them out though dear hubby tells me that the hogs will go under the fence.

We had a chicken wire fencing off the garden.  Those feral hogs flattened the chicken wire and ate all my Egyptian Walking Onions.  They are growing back though those hogs might come back any day.

I am not sure what high tensile electric wire is.

We use electric wire and electric tape for deer.

For that to work on pigs it would need to be where the wire will hit the pigs.

Do they have thick skin so that the shock will need to be high?

I have limited experience with electric fences for hogs, but for anyone coming across this post in the future. I recall a Joel Salatin interview where he commented that the pig fencing needs to be low, because pigs will almost always try to go under. He said cows need it higher, because cows will almost always go over. Just something to keep in mind for spacing.

Premier1 30" tall netting worked for my pigs. But I don't have feral pigs here.

A friend if mine kept his in with several strands of wire, and I remember it was ridiculously thick gauge. With their thick skin, even on the noses, pigs need a good charge whatever fencing you're using.

Some people hold pigs with a single wire, but we have had numerous escapes from HOT 6 strand high tensile with 4-5” spacing down low.  Now I use woven wire with a single hot strand around nose high.  Works like a charm.

High tensile isn't recommended for keeping pigs in or keeping feral hogs out because they will root around the edges of the fence, eventually piling soil on the lowest wire, grounding it out. If the wire is too high for them to do that, they'll be able to get under it.

I've kept pigs contained in paddocks with a single strand of wire, after they were thoroughly trained to electric fencing, but eventually they figure out that they can bury it and go on an adventure. I would say 3 wires is the lowest you would want to go, but the perimeter needs to be inspected nearly daily to ensure it isn't being grounded out.