I agree that experience is a good thing. But sometimes to get experience one must just jump in. Nothing wrong with that approach. Our first two piggies were an Xmas present and we had not yet built our house let alone a pig sty. But, we cobbled together a 3 sided shed, threw up some fencing, and away we went. I do recall a fair amount of wildly chasing after escaped piglets, but also remember the valuable lesson of calmly leading home the piggies with a rattled can of grain...