McChooky
Free Ranging
This guy free ranges chickens with pasture hogs (not penned hogs) Probably the only way it would work
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I have to disagree and agree. I have been raising chickens, pigs, goats, sheep, cows, rabbits, and Aussie dogs for 66 years now and yes pigs will eat everything but they are also opportunists. If it’s there and not moving it’s dinner. If it can run when a pig comes after it pigs learn fast leave it alone so the answers to both your statements are yes and no. A wild boar will catch birds, rodents, small game and eat dead animals. In a barnyard a well feed pig will leave them alone. I had 52 hens and 5 roosters, they where always flying over the hog fence, the adult pigs left them alone but once in a while the little squealers might chase an old hen but more than not they got a good peck on the nose and that was that.I respectfully disagree. Pigs will eat anything they can catch. They're a big part of the reason that wild turkeys and whitetail deer populations are being affected in areas where wild pigs are naturalizing- they eat the eggs, hens on nests, fawns and any young deer they can catch. I worked on a farm when I was a teenager where they had a hog pen and the hogs would catch and eat barn cats. If given the opportunity, they will eat chickens, too.
I'm not an expert, but my initial reaction was "no." Just the size and weight of a pig next to a chicken feels really unsafe. It would seem they could get stepped on. But, I think you need to find a safer way to give your chickens more room. It could be a tragedy.I want to let my chickens have access to the pigpen so they can have more room. Will a pig eat the chickens? We do not have the pigs yet, but I want the chickens to have access to the area the pigs will use and am wondering if I can safely let the hens into the pigpen after it is occupied by pigs.