posted 1 year ago
The smaller pigs (Pot-bellied, Kune-Kune, Guinea, etc.) are not much of a problem, but it's the larger ones that have some serious rooting force. They don't seem to be looking for food so much in the wallow as trying to excavate new 'mud' in which to coat themselves. That, and ...... well ..... pigs just seem so adept at finding the very thing you *don't* want them to do and then doing it with great interest and determination! :-/ We do have both livestock panel pieces in excess (for a gabion wall) and metal roofing pieces from when our quonset was crushed by snow-load a few years back, so this combination of rock/mesh/steel roofing may be the way to go. We would need the roofing as the last layer facing the pigs since I could just imagine one flopping in the wallow and getting a tusk caught in the mesh panel if it were accessible....have had that happen more than enough times already! Additionally, I would need to place some sort of protector along the edge of the roofing since I know how that could cut through even pig hide if an accident were to occur. I like the idea that this combination, once embedded within the mud already present, would provide a quite sturdy wall and roadway over time to allow for larger than average vehicle traffic to access that roadway near the barn. Thanks Anne and Thomas!
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