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    Just now finding this.. awesome work! Have you considered using bows from time to time to kill them. Would be good practice and it's a big enough pen that it wouldn't necessarily be easy.

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      Originally posted by PigOPs View Post
      Just now finding this.. awesome work! Have you considered using bows from time to time to kill them. Would be good practice and it's a big enough pen that it wouldn't necessarily be easy.
      Arrows are expensive. Especially with broadheads

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        Originally posted by PigOPs View Post
        Just now finding this.. awesome work! Have you considered using bows from time to time to kill them. Would be good practice and it's a big enough pen that it wouldn't necessarily be easy.
        We've toyed with the thought, but the driving reason this works is because we minimize the stress on the pigs. The fence is only 36" high and if they get stressed, they will jump it. Our goal is to kill as many as possible, preferably all of them. I believe shooting them with a bow will be self defeating. The few times that we've trapped only 1 hog, it was a very large boar hog and not something I would want to get eye to eye with except through a rifle scope.

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          Here's how I took care of escaping piglets---free chainlink from a GS brother, buried about 6" below the bottom edge of the original panels. Top 18" isn't attached so if they climb it, it sags back into the trap and they fall. Works like a charm.

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            OOh!! I like it Allen! I thought about it but I can't find enough free chain link to go all of the way around. How big is your trap?

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              My trap is roughly 100’ around so no problem finding enough. I posted a “WTB” ad in our classified and got mine

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                Ok. My fenceline is 2700 feet long, according to my simple math in my head with some estimates.

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                  Originally posted by Dusty Britches View Post
                  Ok. My fenceline is 2700 feet long, according to my simple math in my head with some estimates.
                  Dang, that's more than half a mile! You got several hundred acres in there. If it is round and you question your math, measure the distance across (diameter) and multiply that by 3.14 to get the diameter. Let us know what you compute---

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                    Better yet - I just ran the GPS lines - 958 feet, more or less.

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                      Originally posted by Dusty Britches View Post
                      Better yet - I just ran the GPS lines - 958 feet, more or less.
                      Is that total fence line or diameter?
                      Last edited by GarGuy; 06-26-2020, 07:03 AM.

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                        Originally posted by dustoffer View Post
                        Dang, that's more than half a mile! You got several hundred acres in there. If it is round and you question your math, measure the distance across (diameter) and multiply that by 3.14 to get the diameter. Let us know what you compute---
                        Your math is wrong. If its square that's about 10 acres.

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                          total fence line. Its about 1.5 acres in a somewhat square shape.

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                            Originally posted by Dusty Britches View Post
                            total fence line. Its about 1.5 acres in a somewhat square shape.
                            Got ir

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                              Originally posted by GarGuy View Post
                              Your math is wrong. If its square that's about 10 acres.
                              Yep--and diameter multiplied by 3.14 (pi) gives circumference (distance around). Not sure where my mind was----

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                                Tracey,
                                Excellent job to you and your helpers!
                                Did you pay to process them or just donate them, a lot of work

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