My husband brought three pigs home from work last week.
They were adorable little piglets, but I knew they would soon grow up into full-size pigs.
I also knew how pigs could escape anything. He told me not to worry, because he had it covered. I knew if even one pig escaped; I was going to have a lot of pork and bacon in my freezer. He looked at the chicken wire he brought home, and headed back into town. He came home with plastic coated double loop tie wire coils. I wasn’t sure what he planned on doing with the plastic coated double loop tie wire coils, but I knew that if he planned on putting it around the pigpen, he was going to have a couple problems. First thing he had to do was bury the wire either a foot and 1/2 to 2 feet deep into the ground, or he would have to bend the wire in so the pigs couldn’t tunnel out. I was hoping the wire would be heavier than plain chicken wire. He told me that the plastic coated double loop tie wire was strong enough to use for construction, so he was pretty sure it would be strong enough to keep pigs in captivity. I asked him about rusting, and he said that was the idea of the plastic coating. Not only would it not rub together and cause a strength issue, but the rain would not cause it to rust. He sounded like he knew what he was talking about, but I trusted him, and whoever gave him the information.