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Re: water jugs and pigs - was Re: Greenhouse/Johnson grass
- From: "William E. Dellinger, International Food Congress" <hunger AT hunger.org>
- To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: water jugs and pigs - was Re: Greenhouse/Johnson grass
- Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 18:36:03 -0600
At least on fescue I've seen pigs make a run for it--going through the
wire squealing and screaming--followed by the rest of the sows. Fescue
is not very palatable apparently, enough so that the sows were willing
to crash the electric fence. I do realize others have good luck with it,
but confining the hogs to one area in order to overgraze the noxious grass
or weed to death doesn't seem workable.
Jeffery Blake wrote: I don't know about controling Johnson grass, which I am unfamiliar with, but an electric fence will hold a pig very well. Pigs learn very fast just what an electric fence means. Recommed using a 1 to 6 joule fencer. Little pigs will go under it or root dirt onto it but a 50 Lb pig or larger will stay in. This size of the pen might make a difference a small pen might cause a pig to feel trapped or to cause it to spook into the fence and right on through it. You shouldn't use an electric fence to work the pig against. One wire at nose height will hold sows forever. You should leave a non-electric gate into the paddock, as the pigs won't cross the area where the electric fence was even if you remove the wire. Seems to me in trying to control a weed that comes up from rhizomes, like Johnson grass as I understand it, that you would have to either use a lot of pigs on a small area or use a few pigs on a small area over quite a time. All of which would compact the soil. They should work well in a larger pen in grazing down other weeds however.--- |
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water jugs and pigs - was Re: Greenhouse/Johnson grass,
Marie Kamphefner, 02/01/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: water jugs and pigs - was Re: Greenhouse/Johnson grass, William Dellinger, 02/01/2001
- Re: water jugs and pigs - was Re: Greenhouse/Johnson grass, Jeffery Blake, 02/01/2001
- Re: water jugs and pigs - was Re: Greenhouse/Johnson grass, William E. Dellinger, International Food Congress, 02/01/2001
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