How to Put up a Piggy Dripper

We have no running water or ponds here. The pigs need mud to keep cool when the temps go over 75F because they can not sweat. So we set up a piggy dripper made of old drip hose, 3 2” x 4”s and a tarp. These guys said they were expert at digging holes and insisted on helping.

One exhausted inspector

Inspecting the first hole site

Inspecting the work and materials

Inspecting hole depth

Filling and tamping the hole

Helping with final fill and tamp

Helping with tamping

Inspecting tamping of second post

Filling in the third hole

Head inspector exhausted, assistant takes over

Dripper hose and tarp up, inspecting sturdiness of post

Excellent job!! Mud and shade a-plenty!

These 2 pigs were brother and sister, the brown one the barrow, the white the gilt. They were a Berkshire/Duroc cross and the sweetest tempered pigs we’ve had.