I have used both type panels. I had to use cattle panels on one place where the cattle kept getting inside the pen. The little pigs can still get into pen thru the larger wire spacings but not the bigger pigs. Hog panels work well if you do not have livestock that will jump into the feed pen.
Most of my pens are 10-11 panels and all are round.
I have a giant feed pen made with 16 hog panels. So far no problems. The pen is a bit egg shaped with my bow box ground blind up against it. 20 yards to the feeder and 31 yards to the opposite side of the pen from the blind.
Mine are out of cattle panels
They are all 96'x64'
Why I used cattle panels is the rancher had an almost endless supply of the and even more t posts.... told us to use all we wanted but if we ever get of the lease.... we gotta take them with us
I use hog panels and haven't had problems with cows getting in my pens. Mine are circular and made of 10 panels, but I'm going to move one this spring and may expand it to 12 or 14 panels. I prefer hog panels because I want my pens to be as short as possible while still keeping cows and hogs out. The shorter they are the more likely deer are going to be comfortable jumping and feeding inside and it is easier to watch and shoot through or over.
12 or more 34" hog panels in a circle. Cattle will jump the panels to get to your protein pellets, but deer get used to jumping them very easily. So we use them and build a separate barb wire fence 10 yards outside the hog panel pen. Best option I've found for keeping cows out. No Barb wire needed if you don't have cattle.
I use 8 hog panels to keep the hogs and cows out of the pen. You can use cattle panels, but they are a little tall and if used, you need to trim some off the top to lower them a little.
Only had cattle get in the pen once! Sure made a mess of the pen going and coming!
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