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.

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One exhausted inspector

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Inspecting the first hole site

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Inspecting the work and materials

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Inspecting hole depth

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Filling and tamping the hole

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Helping with final fill and tamp

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Helping with tamping

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Inspecting tamping of second post

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Filling in the third hole

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Head inspector exhausted, assistant takes over

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Dripper hose and tarp up, inspecting sturdiness of post

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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.

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