Hog pen around feeder. Recommendations welcome

I’m currently running a 9 ft radius and 2 1/2 ft high and it is working great keeping the hogs out. And I am still using a electronic feeder that I have flattened the ears on the throw plate and it keeps all of the corn inside the fence. Deer have no problem at all jumping in

Texas AM did a study showing 27" was optimal height.

Just get a quality solar power electric fence from Tractor Supply. Price for the charger is around $100. Run 2 strands: 1st strand at 10 inch height for smaller pigs and 2nd strand at 22 inch height. Deer can jump the fence.

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I used three cow panels and cut them in half. Six pieces of panel, 12 T-posts.
Gives you ~25” height and a 30 ft diameter. A feeder will sling about 90% of feed inside that s

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That's a fine idea. I have a metabo that would cut that like butter and cut my cost in half.

What did everyone use for wire to the t posts?

Electric fence wire, a good heavy duty zip tie will work too!

I built my feeder pens with 10 34inch hog panels and cut out 8 ft.of top wire every other panel.I left 2 sides propped open for about a month until deer got used to going in.I’m not sure if that was necessary but I didn’t know how deer would react to having feeder fenced off.
The problem with using cattle panels cut in half is the small pigs can go in and out.I don’t know if that is really an issue because the big pigs are not likely to stick around and let the little ones eat but I didn’t want to take a chance.
It has helped ,I’ve seen a lot more deer this year and a lot less pigs.I didn’t even use my feeders last year and saw very few deer.

Built one this year with 50" cattle panels cut in half (easy with small bolt cutters. Posts are #4 rebar.
A yearling can jump it from standing position, and no hogs have gotten in so far.

Finished. Thanks for all the advice. Went with 3 panels cut in half with a dozen t-posts.