Homestead fails with pigs

We've had tons of fails as we learn homesteading. Sometimes we listened to the wrong expert. Sometimes we didn't listen to good advice. Sometimes we have no clue what went wrong. 

So the first part of this series is taking a look at what we believed would absolutely work. Why we think it didn't and what we did differently. 

We listened to a farmer who swore you could train pigs to three strands of electric wire. So we set up our pig area with electric fence spent time training them. The biggest of them all Boris, figured out how to jump through or over the wires, he taught everyone else. 6 months later we were catching 300 lb pigs daily, leading them back to their area and giving them a treat for coming back which honestly felt like rewarding bad behavior. 

Something had to change. So we still run single strand wire electric fence on the inside of 4ft hog wire fence. Now we only have to catch pigs if the hotwire goes down for some reason (I'm looking at you Fauna the Nanny goat who likes to unplug the charger cord in the barn). But it's pretty rare and has saved us headache upon headache. I'm sure we screwed up the training to the hotwire, not the farmers fault for telling us this. Seems to work great for his farm. But we adjusted to what we had to do to work it out. 

Homesteading, first gen farming, whatever you call this crazy thing we do is all about learning, changing, and growing. So I hope I'm not the only one who just failed miserably at three strand pig keeping.