Never saw 2 fences built the same. A good 5 strand is 48" high for non confined areas, T posts from 5'6" up in length and 6' min spacing, or stays at no more than 6' depending on how bad you want your animals to stay in, what's on the other side, and how easily they can be pushed over, aka soil conditions. A weight supporting post needs to occur periodically, especially in clay soils as the ground will crack open in the summer, posts will fall and in the winter it will close back. After a dozen seasons of that your fence is now 38 ft tall and your bottom strand is on the ground supporting your fence.
I liked double braces at each corner with a mid H brace every 300' max.
For standard breeds 10" off the ground for #1 and about 6" spacing. If calves, add a 6th strand splitting the 10". If you don't put that lower wire on they sometimes do their napping on the fence row and upon waking, get up on the wrong side. Rule of thumb is that if they get through it they can get back when they get hungry enough or mommy starts bellering at them, but when they wake up on the other side, they didn't get through it, they got under it and cows only go down in the pen......bears go down, bulls go up or through fences.
If you want them off the fence, (grass is ALWAYS greener on the other side), run a hot wire along the inside about half way up. Good grounding is important and in dry weather soil conduction is minimal and that's when you will have your biggest problems.
On open pasture, I have run what's called a swinging fence where the posts were 8-10". 3' deep and spaced 30 yards (giant steps) apart. Stays were between the posts spaced every 6'. When the cows pushed on it there was some give which helped it in doing it's job. With open pasture they weren't on the fence all that much anyway.
That's my experience, others have theirs....there is a story in every pasture.
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