My perimeter fencing is non climb. There are some gaps between the ground and the bottom of the fence that might be as much as 6”. Can you use electric bin those spaces to keep piggies in?
Thanks!
Would be hard to keep a hot wire that low from grounding? 
If I set it at 3”? No.
Can you get some old RR ties? I’d line the fence and stabilize with stakes so piggies can’t root them out of the way.
We were successful with old pallets and fence panels. But hoo boy, can pigs dig!
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That will not work in this area, and the area is also pretty large. I am worried about digging being an issue. Thanks!
Electric wire would be the best option. We had a friend who raised pigs, wild pigs actually- with the stripes down them, and the electric wire was the only thing that worked. But the pigs knew when he turned it off, and when it was off, they would bolt through/under it. Good luck.
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A friend of mine that had an outdoor pig pen picked up a lot of used chainlink fence and buried it around the bottom of the fence so the piggies couldn’t root their way out. Worked a charm!
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To bury any kind of woven wire you can rent a small ditch digger and run that ditch along the fence in no time, since you say you have a long distance, that would make more sense than trying to do it by hand.
Is hard to believe how fast and deep pigs can dig, here is what some feral hogs did here, just passing by, in less than five minutes, on hard ground:
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Premier1 has some advice about using electric with pigs, and some portable fence solutions: Premier1 Supplies (pig fencing)
The Non-climb is already installed, so I am not going to be burying any fencing- but thanks!
That’s the reason I asked about the electric. If I set it three inches off of the ground, the piggies aren’t getting under it, or over it, and I can still weedeat. I use electric rope, and it is on all of the time, unless we have a power outage.
Pigs do pretty well with a strand of electric at nose height, especially if there is a solid fence behind it so they can’t run through the first time they get zapped. Lots of people who rotate them on pasture set up one strand so it’s easy to move around and don’t have a problem once the pig is correctly trained to electric.
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Using pigs to improve land is an actual thing. They are happy to till a garden or clear out overgrown, wooded areas in exchange for a few small comforts like food, water and shelter. LOL
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