With moving up to our block of land ( Kawhio ridge), also meant that I had to move Mr Pig. It was easy enough to get him to step up onto the trailer by first putting some grain up for him to eat. When I first got him up here I put him in a temporary home, the sheep yards for a couple of weeks until I had fenced a separate area for him next to my main pig block.
Because I have had Mr Pig for 8 ½ years now I knew he would happily stay within a fenced off area. So all that I needed to do was have a wire around a certain area and he would stay within that space.
The area that I had sorted out for Mr Pig was next to my pig block which was going to make things interesting. When I first let him in the grass was up to the hot wire and shorting it out so it sucked the power down in the battery to the extent that they ran out of power, this gave Mr Pig and the main boar from within the block the chance to size each other up. The result was the fence line that I was going to have to scrub cut was cleared by the two boars.
Luckily for the boar in the block neither boar got through the fence but the boar in the block did get one poke in the neck as Mr Pigs tusks would have reached through the wire. While Mr Pig and the main boar have been sizing each other out the other boars where standing back watching not wanting to get involved.
It has been a couple of days now and the two boars are still trying to be the dominant one.