[Button End Beasts]

It never stops amazing me how clever pigs are! The other day I may have accidentally "taught" my 9 mo OSB Flo, aka the ginger whinger, to jump an electric fence.


At feed time, we separate off a corner of the paddock with 2 ft high electric mesh fencing, to feed the weaners, putting the food down in trugs. Flo gulps her own food down as fast as possible, then runs  over to see how the little ones are getting on. Usually she cant get in so just whinges until i open the fence up. 


The other morning i was rushing about to get to work, went to pick up the trugs (with Flo in hot pursuit), leant over the fence pushing it down in a floppy bit, to pick up the trugs.  The next 2 mornings, I come back down our field after sorting out ducks , sheep etc. and find Flo in with little ones gutsting their food down. i couldnt work out how the hell she's in their cos the fence is intact and the electric is on!


On the 3rd morning I caught her jumping the fence exactly where the baggy bit was that I leant over!!! Next day, I raised the fence a couple of inches, and Flo went along the fence line in that exact spot, looking for a way in. Boy was she MAD when she couldnt jump it! She really took it out on the poor weaners when I released them.


Yep, I love my naughty pig, she's great

[HappyHippy]

Haha Go Flo  Okay, so I know it's not a good thing - but you've got to marvel at the thought process 
It doesn't take them long to figure things out, does it ?

We've got ours in the shed for winter and after we feed we can shut all the gates and sweep/barrow out - except Rora the Kunekune knows if she lifts the gate, the bolt slips from it's place and she can come and help  She just loves a scratch against the wheelbarrow, so sends it flying everytime - til we blocked her attempts and managed to keep her in - she's just SO not happy about it 

Thanks for sharing Button End Beasts - made me 

[Bionic]

Clever Flo 
Sally

[Sudanpan]

  clever piggy 

[ppd]

Great piggy story

[Button End Beasts]

HH, today I took Flo on a walk to visit our sheep and at one point I climbed over a sheep hurdle, acting as a part of a gate (my OH's idea, dont ask me why ) leaving Flo behind. Well she was having none of it and flung the hurdle clean off peg and the ground! That's when you realise how strong a pig is and yet she is so gentle with me, a right short arse, who she could easily send flying! 

[HappyHippy]

HH, today I took Flo on a walk to visit our sheep and at one point I climbed over a sheep hurdle, acting as a part of a gate (my OH's idea, dont ask me why ) leaving Flo behind. Well she was having none of it and flung the hurdle clean off peg and the ground! That's when you realise how strong a pig is and yet she is so gentle with me, a right short arse, who she could easily send flying! 

Oh hey - don't I know it !

I'm not a small person at all (nearly 6ft tall and built like a brick sh** house with a few extra tyres  ) and I realised how strong they were when our young Kunekune boar (he was about 7 months old, so only weighing roughly 50-60 Kilos) was lifting one of the field gates, almost to the point of it coming off the hinges.
While my OH was running to get a clamp to put on the hinge I thought I'd help by standing on the gate so he couldn't lift it.
He lifted it and me  and in my eyes he was still a baby ! Now, at 2 years old and over 120Kg I would hate to think what he could do if he wanted too. Thankfully he's always got plenty to keep him occupied and he's a nice boy 

[Button End Beasts]

Wow strong boy!   And hey, I know all about spare tyres! Well who doesn't have them with all the delicious pork and bacon we produce!

[Button End Beasts]

More bad behaviour.    I let our trio of pigs out to chase the sheep and generally nose about in the big field ( they'd been walking around like old ladies in their frozen, well trodden, mud paddock).Well when we checked on them a while later....they'd obviously found the stash of about 10 empty, paper feed bags as shredded bags were spread out EVERYWHERE. They must have had a great time, little buggers!Pigs LOVE ripping things up don't they?!

[littlegem]

I've got 4 saddleback x tamworths that I've had to stable because of escaping and destroying stuff and one of them keeps getting over the stable door, I am on stage 10 of piggy containment!

There is now an extra plank on the top as she got over this!

[HappyHippy]

Oh I feel your pain !
We were the same til we built our colditz style boar pen (using the old metal cow feeding rails as a support  )
So far, no-one contained in it has managed to escape  it makes such a difference just knowing they're secure when they need to be