Feral pig fencing is a type of fence engineered to exclude feral pigs otherwise known as wild pig fencing. Feral pigs are also known as feral hogs. Typical applications include:
- Preventing feral pig access (keeping them from going under or into an area) or as dig prevention
- Surrounding an area like a garden where feral pigs will eat your plants or vegetables by adding a chew barrier for feral pig protection to an existing fence (like a garden fence)
Surrounding the complete perimeter of an area (along a complete property line) – this can include wide driveway gates to protect driveways
A feral pig fence kit is a selection of fencing, fence posts, accessories and hardware to build a complete fence to keep out feral pigs when starting from nothing.
Our feral pig fences are not electric and cannot fail due to broken wires, dead batteries, etc. They are engineered to keep out many different animals besides feral pigs, depending on the options you choose. They also make great pet fences to keep in dogs and other animals. We do have real physical barrier poly electric fence as an option if needed for your application.
There are 1000+ fence kits, combinations and options within each of these types of feral pig fences.
The purpose of this page is to help you compare the choices to best select the feral pig fence you need for your project.
In general, most customers with feral pig issues select:
- A feral pig fence with overlap. This type of feral pig fence includes extra fencing overlapped and staked to the ground to the outside of the area. This acts as a dig deterrent and covers small ups and downs in your landscape feral pigs can use for entry. Feral pigs will use their noses to try and push up the base of a fence or to try to root down under your fence for access. This type of feral pig fence with overlap is a roll of fence installed at a specific height, leaving additional inches or footage (6-12 inches typical) overlapped and pinned to the ground facing outside.
- A combination deer and feral pig fence with a chew barrier base. Deer don’t chew and poly fence has properties that make it a great deer fence for the top of the fence. Poly deer fence doesn’t have memory (if it’s hit it returns to its original shape unlike metal that once bent stays bent) and it’s hard to climb. Poly deer fence is also lightweight, very strong and inexpensive. The issue with poly fence is chewing; even the strongest poly fence is not chew proof. The most popular type of fence for a garden includes a poly fence paired with a metal chew barrier base. In general, the same bottom wire fence used to keep out feral pigs will also keep out rabbits and other garden pests. The post popular garden configuration to keep out feral pigs (and other animals) would be a 7 ½ foot finished height poly fence in 700 poly paired with a 4ft 1x1 black steel bottom wire, installed at 40 inches tall leaving 8 inches of overlap. The overlap is flexible – for example, you could install the 4ft bottom wire at 36” tall leaving 12 inches of overlap.
- 36-48” tall. The minimum suggested height to keep out feral pigs as a chew barrier base is 36 inches / 48 inches when used on top of another fence.
Below are our feral pig fence kits separated by type: