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so after running them on the wire in the pen for 10 days and hearing a zap and a squeal every soft often in the middle of the night I decided to section off some of the field so they have room to roam. A bored pig looks for trouble and tries to find ways to escape. A happy will hang around if they have food, water, clean bedding and something to keep their mind busy. They are very smart animals.

I started with a test, a peanut butter sandwich , they loved those things. I figured if I put a sandwich right under the wire and it was still sitting there by the time I got done enclosing the field, I could trust them to be out there

I grabbed some grade stakes, wire and insulators, I figured I wouldd give them a 40 by 100 room to graze

I started by placing the stakes out every eight feet

and grabbed my lawn mower and went around and cut down the grass around them

sandwich check, still there

I mounted the insulators, I went with one about 6 inches up and one 12 inches up to run a double loop. You want to hit the pig on the snout so it backs up, not on the head behind the ears, that will cause the pig to surge forward right through the fence

sandwich check

I ran the loop around and doubles it back

and unleashed the pigs

the standoff, my dog wasn't quite sure what to think

and they were happy as pigs in clover, literally