Lucky Pigs

The pigs have two purposes, one is to be yummy food for us next year, the other is to clear the land in the woods. They had quite a large enclosure, but we have made it much bigger to something like an acre. To do this Doug had to push through some almost impenetrable thickets with the strimmer to get the fence through. We are hoping they will now clear the thicket within their enclosure.

Perky admiring all the work going on

Along the top of the original part of the enclosure

Before strimming

The mighty strimmer

Beautifully cleared track ready for the fence

After strimming

This is just the top of the enclosure. There was worse thicket along the bottom, made a bit more difficult by the fence on the hay field. But Doug did a heroic job and got it all done. We then had the fun of putting fence round it all, in some places we have used existing fence posts and trees and in others we have put in plastic and metal posts.

We may extend it again depending on how they are getting on. We kind of hope to be able to leave the fence in place for pigs next year but we may well end up having to redo it as things grow so fast and engulf fences. It isn't very easy to strim with the fence in place as it is too easy to chop through.