If the pigs reach any sort of size, they will destroy pallet wood....
Chain link will work, if you bury it in cement 18" deep. The cement doesn't need to be 18" (but wouldn't hurt), just down that deep and well set. They will root it out otherwise...
Awesome, thanks for letting me know that, I'll adjust course a bit! It won't take much to do that. Would t posts driven 3' deep suffice instead of concrete?
Only if they had a concrete base. The pigs root, and would under mine them, and they'd start to lean...
Cool, so it's gonna be a little more permanent than I'd originally thought. But we can still run that.
Burying the chain link will only leave 30" above ground. Is that high enough? I guess I could stand pallets up against that if it's too short.
It is a bit short. By and large, pigs aren't jumpers, but they can. You could go 2' and then have the rest above ground... Any pallet you put in there will be a destroyed toy... Think nails...vet bills....
Vet bills. Yuck. I'd like to avoid those if at all possible. I'll run a hot wire over top, that'll do the trick.
It's more what's available to the at nose level. I was at a farm 2 years ago that had a small pig stuck between slats of a pallet, the inner and outer ones, not the sides...
You really don't want the pallets anywhere they might get at them. A hot wire only works until they shovel dirt on it....
I'm not dead set on using pallets, I know this question will make it sound that way though 🤣 I've just got an abundance I can use so I don't want them being wasted.
Can I use them for like the top of a pig house/shelter thing in the pen? Up over head as a support with plywood on top is what I'm thinking. T posts to hold it up, and ply wood sides. I've got a fair bit of ply wood that I don't mind getting destroyed.
I think I'm pretty well getting that ground level pallets are a no-go. These do have a lot of nails in em (not exposed, but a strong critter could pretty easily expose them) and the point of the whole thing is for them to have a good life, not get hurt and sick and jabbed with nails.