Fencing for pigs
November 2021 was our biggest rainfall event since January - hooray!
But that means the feral pigs are on the move - grrr!
We have irrigated horticulture to our north, and national park to the south so we see quite a few feral pigs. Whenever it rains, pigs move through our property: trampling, wallowing and eating as they go. We won't see them for months, then overnight there'll be a smash-and-grab incursion. The damage they can do is one night is extraordinary.
Pigs love to wallow in the rain-filled depressions in our floodplain country. So, an area that should be native herbs like Nardoo, becomes a stinking, muddy slush. They also root about under the Wattles, eating the native seeds we want for revegetation.
Our conservation fence, which is so nearly finished, will exclude pigs. Yay!
This story was picked up in the newsletter for the National Feral Pig Action Plan. You can read the full story here.
Our fencing project is supported by the Victorian Government through the Community Volunteer Action Grants, the Australian Government through the Murray-Darling Healthy Rivers Program, a Gallagher - Landcare Australia grant, and with help from Bio R and the Jesse Chaplin-Burch Trust and People and Parks Foundation.