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This electric fence is going to give me a stroke

Spent some time giving the pigs some loving, I find it very therapeutic, except for the white one, she is still evil

so we decided to move the pigs over to their old pen to get some fresh grazing, I wanted to show the difference of our field growing that we haven't mowed and where the pigs haven't touched, and the pen that they had totally rutted and peed and pooped on for their first month with us. Hopped into the shower and plugged in the go pro and nothing, didn't record, son of a, oh well, so I ran back down just to give a quick view of the difference

http://www.youtube.c.....3rLhXq0aN4

So the other day I went down to the barn around 10:30 to feed the pigs, opened the barn door and didn't see them in the stall. So I called out to them expecting them to come running. Nope.

There is one corner of their penned in area you can't see from the barn, so I walked outside the barn to look around the corner, expecting the pigs to be sleeping in their mud hole. Nope. They were gone.

I did a quick look on the ground around the pen expecting they had dug under the fence but didn't find anything. There was one section near their mud pit that was under water and I was starting to think they might had wiggled under the fence through the water. I did a quick scan of the ground and saw some tracks and a path going into the woods. So I started working back into the brush calling for them. Turns out this was deer activity, not the pigs.

So after searching and hollering for a hour, I came out of the woods. At this point I started to panic, what do I do. Do I call the cops? Do I call animal control? Do I authorize shoot on sight?

I ran up to the house and my Dad asked what was going on, I told him the pigs were missing, I asked him to drive down the road and start scanning peoples back yards and then cut back down the dirt road and see if they are that far back in the woods. I grabbed some doughnuts and started checking the opposite side of our property from the direction my father went. 2 Minutes later my phone rang. It was my father,

"I found them"

"Where?"

"5 houses down in their backyard"

So I started walking toward that direction, and there is my father walking towards me with 3 pigs following him, I wish I had gotten a picture but my mind was elsewhere at that point. They were right by the large tree in the middle of the pic

I hollered pig, pig sue, sue come, and all three started running towards me. So we just marched them back into their barn and I inspected the fence a little more. I had tied the door on the back side of the barn open so it didn't blow shut and I hadn't been able to see that corner on my first inspection. Well I think i figured where they had gotten out.

seems the gfi outlet for the electric charger had tripped and they forced their way out between the post and the barn

I quickly fixed that

http://www.youtube.c.....EmyBaPQnJ8

so spend some quality time with your animals, they will come running to you when they escape! lol

I need to make some changes to their pasture next year, I think I'm going to do the whole back field which should give them enough grazing for all summer