Suggestion on building a bay pen

Unless your planning to train pen dogs or start a lot of puppies you would probably be much better off to see if someone has a pen in your area that you could use occasionally. A few sacks of dogfood will usually buy you some good pen time.

I personally have strong feelings about woods dogs spending too much time in a baypen. Young dogs need just a few times to see a hog, know the smell and what to do when they see one. When they know the deal and get fired up just walking on a lead towards the pen, it's time for the woods and I rarely take one back.

I think you can do far more good by spending time hobbling small hogs and turning them out for your young dogs to find, or tying them out to a tree in the woods than spending time in a pen.

My .02