Posted by John A. on October 04, 2011 at 21:06:41 from (76.1.122.180):
In Reply to: OT---Horse question posted by Jiles on October 04, 2011 at 15:19:56:
Guys, When I was in the OK Panhandle we regularly kept our horses on wheat pasture in the winter, or on some sort of summer graze out. Under a single hot wire fence. A hot wire at 5ft or any height over 3.5 ft high is worthless! Wrong proportions in height to animal to ground!!! We ran fence height at point of hip for Stocker calves, Cows, Horses and never had a problem. One needs to turn animal out in traps where the animals have time to find the boundaries and learn the fence at least 2 hrs before dark at a minimum. The wire height was at the point of hip, (just under belt loop high) our re-bar post with adjustable plastic insulator were every 15 steps. Our hot wire was a slick, 14 ga, single strand wire. We had had 10+ spools that were 2 ft wide, with a 20 in plow disk on each end to make the sides of the spools. Each spool had enough wire on it to put a single strand hot wire around 2 sections. About 8 miles of wire. Or one section +cross fences. The Real Secret to a hot wire fence is the Charger, like old, International Super 98 would knock a calf to its knees or horse one hit after that they will give that fence a wide berth! If a charger is one that is a so-so hot charger you will have trouble keeping animals in. We had a round tube style New Zealand made charger that would do a number on a calf in short order too. In dry weather is hard to make a charger work well, wet weather or adequate moisture is when best results are obtained. Yes every spring we rolled up all hot wire fences after grazing winter wheat and corn stalks, and needing to get in that yrs corn crop. Hope this helps . Later, John A.
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