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Author Topic: Suggestion on building a bay pen  (Read 7165 times)
matt_aggie04
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« on: March 31, 2008, 10:47:16 pm »

I like the belt idea as well, I have thought about doing that with the larger of my two pens with old carpet.  I could still use the smaller portion for letting pups bay from the outside.  I have two round pens that touch making it shaped like an 8.  I have a gate where they touch for sorting hogs. 
I used the 5' tall 4"x4" panels and some T-posts I already and I still have around $300 in it.  Yeah I know there are cheaper ways to go but it was my only option at the time I was needing one.  I built a woods pen that is about 3 acres at my grandparents house and dug a pond in it and the whole nine.  I just used field fence and it worked great.  If I had 10 brushy acres that I wasn't using for much I would clean out a fence row, fence a few acres, build a round pen in the corner of the pen and feed water my hogs in that.  I would put a trap front on the round pen and then if I wanted to turn them into the woods pen I could do that and then catch them back up in the round pend.  Not cheap but it wouldn't leave you wanting.  I would look to spend 1200-1500 in fencing material minimum to do this.
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