Pig's got out again!

Well, I was getting ready to leave work today and got a call from the wife saying the pigs were out and headed for the road.  She wanted to know what to do.....I said chase them back toward the barn.  So I hurry home and get them put back in and give them some milk water to keep them occupied while my daughter and I went to find out why the fence was still shorted even though the water was down.

We started at the fencer and started checking fence.  We went around the entire thing and didn't find much on it.  However when we went across the creek to check the other side we did find some visitors!

 

 Do you see them??

 

 Zoomed in a little....I counted 9 total.  Three or four were little ones that must have been born late in the year.  The rest were pretty big does.

 

They walked on over to dad's pasture next door and then headed up and over the hill.  Didn't really mind us but didn't stick around to talk either!

Back to the original story...so we checked the entire fence.  Didn't find anything more than a couple pieces of grass and misc. stuff on the wire but nothing that would short it.  So we went back to the beginning and started over again but walking instead of riding the tractor.  This time I was looking for something small instead of a break from flood damage. 

All along the property line between me and my dad there are bits and pieces of old fences that were put up over the last couple hundred years.  These fences have since fallen down and rusted up but there are still parts of them left.  There are also some other misc. junk laying around that the previous owners had tossed into the fence line.  Over time the cows and pigs will kick these pieces up and they end up on the new fence.

I found three places where there was junk wire shorting it out and one small tree limb.  If you look closely you will see the wire on the ground at the bottom of the bottle.  Then if you look at the fence near the top of the bottle you will see just the tip of the wire touching the fence.  This was the last one I found.

After removing all four grounding shorts on the fence it is now very hot!!!  Pigs shouldn't be out tomorrow!

Anyway, everyone is doing great.  Just waiting for the weather to get nice....way to muddy to do anything right now!

Kenny