skyhightree1
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I plan on putting in some new pig pens but thought about leaving the trees in them. What would you do? I can easily doze them out the way. I was trying to do the least amount of work and expense as possible.
Pig Pen /Goat pen Question
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pdfangus
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well the pigs will kill them and they will fall on your fence and the hogs will escape and contribute toward the wild hog problem....
goats will help clean it up and convert it to grass.
goats will help clean it up and convert it to grass.
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skyhightree1
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pdfangus":2cn3qkfy said:
I guess I will fire up a dozer or either leave a few in there for shade but cut majority down.
Stocker Steve
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Pigs would appreciate some bark to rub on...
RanchMan90
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They like the shade as well. They haven't killed the trees in my hog pen.
greybeard
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If hogs killed trees, there wouldn't be a tree left in the Big Thicket and just a few in East Texas.
pdfangus
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well we had a guy here that built hog pens in his woods and spent the next few years fixing fences from dead trees falling on them...a bunch of hogs confined to an area are gonna root and dig up tree roots...maybe wild hogs spread it out over more area and do less tree damage...they did not kill all the trees but they sure killed a bunch...
Back in the day folks used hogs to open new land....
Back in the day folks used hogs to open new land....
Stocker Steve
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pdfangus":1ni40iel said:
Are u saying I am bakword ?
pdfangus
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Stocker Steve":1jmm5qbq said:
Far from it....
Just stating how I saw things done in the immediate post WWII era, and my forebearers said this is how it was done...before people could afford bulldozers and trackhoes. Raised hogs for meat and let them help open new land. cut down what trees were left....often the new land would first go into pasture to give the stumps time to rot a little. might come back with the hogs a while later for a second pass...there was a time when people dug out stumps by hand....a little help from hogs was a lot of help....
wacocowboy
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So would pigs kill bigger trees like a mature oak? I know acorns are supposed to be bad for horses and cattle but what about pigs? Would acorns hurt a goat?
RanchMan90
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Hogs thrive on acorns, haven't seen any negative effects of acorns on goats.wacocowboy":1xgy1e6h said:
backhoeboogie
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pdfangus":3osvhp7k said:
If his fence will hold water, it will hold goats.
reeler
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Yes, hogs LOVE acorns. Depending on weight & size of herd, hard to say amount of damage done to trees; but by rooting alone they do a lot of damage. They do need shade in the summer, so it would be nice to leave some big trees for shade.RanchMan90":et5ofony said:
pdfangus
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RanchMan90":1oe1came said:
ditto
pdfangus
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backhoeboogie":hru655me said:
not that bad....my are trained to hot wire...but it takes two or three wires and they have to get zapped a time or two to figure it out...they are smart enough that they will figure out if you turn it off to go thru it then they can too...
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skyhightree1
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Atimm693":whrln5k3 said:
Despite what many people think a goat can't eat anything... There are lots of common everyday plants that can kill goats black flag dead
pdfangus
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skyhightree1":2ek672v6 said:
I concur with Sky...
goats are actually fairly fragile and their inquisitive nature leads them to get into perilous situations
they are less hardy and more subject to parasites than sheep....
But I just don't care much for the wooly boogers. the goats are smart and entertaining to be around...
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skyhightree1
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Decided to clear the sunnier side and keep the shady side well shady for them.
