Re: Fence question.

Posted by Bill Smith on August 06, 2001 at 22:02:40 from (128.242.4.59):

In Reply to: Fence question. posted by Kermit on August 01, 2001 at 17:33:19:

If your hay lot is perminate I would recomend a 5 wire fence. Well braced wood corners and wood brace posts. Then go steal posts with a good wood post about every 5th or 6th post. We use hedge posts in my country and they will last you the rest of your life without rotting off. If you feed your cows adequatly you should have no trouble with them messing with fence. Maybe a wild one jumping over but that can't be stopped. Tip on your steel posts is to buy longer ones and put them in deeper. This will help keep your fence from leaning over from cows pushing on it. A 4 wire fence will give you trouble. Either your spacing is wrong and cows can easily reach through or if you narrow the spacing up, that leaves your top wire low and reaching over then becomes the problem. A 5 wire fence will eliminate that. I use 5 wire barbed line fence and if it is a corral type fence where cattle are locked up I use atleast 6 wires. I am in cattle country in Kansas and electric fence is only used for temporary instantces primarily. Say pasturing cows on your neighbors stock field for one winter. No need to build perminate fence for temporary use in other words. An electric fence is deffinately not considered for a perminate situation in my area. You should build new fence and corrals when you are young. Alot of people don't do it untill they are old. If you do it when you are young you can enjoy it the rest of your life. Why fight it for all those years and then decide to have a new fence built when you are a couple of years away from the care home. Just doesn't make since but alot of people do it. BUILD YOUNG AND ENJOY IT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. Don't have the headaches of farting around with bad fence or electric fence for years. You don't have to build it all new right now but put it on a plan and build a little new fence every year for say 6 years and then you will be all done and have no bad fence to worry about. The tip is to start by replacing your worst fence. I don't recomend putting your hay all in one place. We had an arsanists in our area a while back that burnt about 700 big bales up at one location and lit hay on fire in several other places. I ussually put hay in rows of 12 bales or so and put them in several places all away from the cows. I only keep small amount close to fence so if we have a blizzard and snow drifts and unable to get around I can pitch fork it over the fence. Ussually keep about 12 bales about 10 feet from fence for this purpose.

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