The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Pigs => Topic started by: mugball on February 27, 2013, 11:34:22 am
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I know pigs can't fly but how how are they climbing banks?
One side of the area I want to fence them in on is the boundary of my neighbours land and mine, currently a natural boundary of about a 4ft high bank, the gradient is shallowest about 55 degrees in places.
In terms of costs, if I could get away with not fencing this boundary I'd be able to provide the pigs with a much larger area, but it is the most important boundary!
To the laymans eye it looks like inquisitive piglets might be able to scamper up, but unlikely for a larger pig, but thought I'd check with experienced owners.
Do pigs have a propensity to climb banks?!
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YES,
Well mine did at any rate. Actually it wasn't even a slope, it was vertical. Over the space of a few months where they kept trying to climb it they had brought mud and stone down which acted as a ledge they could climb on to get them higher.
Definitely keep a close eye on them
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Mine keep trying to climb the sheep hurdles when I feed them :rant:
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Mugball I'm afraid you are going to have to fence it pigs adult and piglets will climb a very steep bank at a suprising pace. :wave:
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I'm afraid so ..... :innocent:
(http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n578/P6te/Climbingpig_zpsdea6ee76.jpg)
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yep, they'll go over it quite easily !
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Yes! We have a hillside that, in places is almost a 1:2, but is more like a 1:3 in much of it and a 1:4 in others. But the pigs had no problem in climbing banks that were somewhere between the 1:2 and 1:3 :pig: :pig: :pig:
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Thanks guys, very glad I checked here first!!!
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a grown pig can get onto or over a 4ft wall like its just a toy, if its solid they'll get on/over it. you need to fence it.