Pig tractor

Ask Jim Criger of Springfield, Mo., why he invented his pig tractors and he’ll tell you, “My pigs got out and I couldn’t catch them. It’s miserable to chase pigs.” His sturdy, mobile 8 by 16-ft. enclosures were modeled after chicken tractors. “I just made ’em bigger and stronger,” says Criger. The sides of each...

Idea is to build a "hog tractor" on skids I can tow and place with a tractor and set up hot wire around it. On board water in case I move them to an area without ground water, or winter months.

All the animals on the farm must do more than fill our freezer and grace our table. Beyond eggs,meat and broth,the chickens turn table scraps and pulled weeds in the compost pile, tend the next generation of poultry, and scratch and fertilize sparse pastures. The ewes and

A few request for pig tractor info so including some additional pictures. So basically a 3 sided shed on 6x skids. I guess framing was 2×6 not 2×4 (sorry Zach and Chuck, this is slightly…

We started our pen quite a while ago in anticipation of getting a few pigs this year. Updates on how the pen has fared over here. I haven’t gotten my Old Spot yet, and I’m not sure …

A portable electric perimeter or subdivision fence for pastured pigs. Allows pigs to forage gardens, orchards and fields after harvest.

Posts about pig tractor written by SansomZito

This is one of our pig tractors at Realeyes Homestead. We built them out of salvaged lumber and pallets, on cedar skids so that we can drag them all around the pasture. This keeps the pigs healthy and happy because they always have fresh ground to root up and forage in, and it keeps them away from their feces accumulation.

There are many advantages to owning pigs. They grow fast, they're fairly easy to raise, and they're prolific breeders.

inside small moveable pen