Fencing a 10 acre pasture

[isucrazy]

RED BRAND also makes a goat and sheep wire. They "critters " can get their heads in and out of it without gettin stuck. A int no such thing as a tight fence with goats that ive seen. They will lean into it as hard as they can and take off walking It must feel good /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I have pigmy goats and barbadose sheep on 10 acres also. Never have had a problem with em getting out ever . My wire is 38" with 2 strands of barb wire 5" apart, 48" total hight. I wish I had never puy the barb wire on the top. I think I have one sunday go ta meeting shirt that dont have a tear in it. If they have plenty of ruffage to eat you shouldn't have any problems. Poison oak and ivey is their chocolate! A jenny is a must here with the coyots. A jack aint worth his feed as fare as pasture policeing goes. Steel Corner post and streachers are very common here. dont know what to tell ya there except , steel and sackrete throw in a bunch of overkill and you will be set for a long time." TOO DEEP,TOO BIG, TOO MUCH SACKRETE" Nothing looks worse than cock-eyed corners! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif You kno, pulling up or out of the ground on one side.. Good luck

 

[slowzuki]

I've read the most effective sheep fencing is 5 wire electric. Keeps the coyotes out and the sheep in. One of the tricks some people do is alternate a ground wire in with the live wires so when things are dry there is still lots of zap.

Supposedly in the sheep raising stuff I've learned you have to dump some water on em and touch their nose to the wire at a young age so they stay away. Sounds cruel but touching electric hasn't done anything to me done anything to me done anything to me. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
Ken

 

[isucrazy]

Yes sir. An old man in town has milk goats on a small mostly bare place he uses hot wirs also. I can imagine with em wet they FULLY understand that wire aint no fun! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[OkeeDon]

<font color="blue"> but as for finding hardworking teens.....never had much luck with that </font>

Go to your local high school and talk to the Band Director. Find out if they are taking a year-end trip, need new uniforms or instruments, or otherwise need to raise funds. Offer a reasonable amount for the work you need to have done. Stand back.

 

[polecat]

took the words out of my mouth but i was going to say goto the shop class and talk to the instructor bout his best 2 or three students..and if they need jobs!!!! right on okee dokkkkeey don!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif put apple slices on the wires when the ground is wet!!! touch their noses to it ...holdem and do it agin...it'll keepem in when /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif u arent round!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[polecat]

AND CMON U GUYS WITH ALL THE PRETTY FENCES..8'ERS AND ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!! LETS SEE SOME PICS PLEASE!!!!!
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[daedong]

If you were to build an electric fence useing 6 wire, 3live 3 earth starting with an earth 3in above the ground so lamb cannot get under it therefore they will attempt to go between the 1st and 2nd wire zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap

use high tensile galve wire 2.5mm 1/10in dia


---------------6th wire live 10in




--------------5th wire earth 8in



--------------4th wire 8in live



--------------3rd wire 6in earth


--------------2nd wire live 5in

------------- first wire earth 3in from ground

--------------------------------ground level

 

[polecat]

not sure what it is like in australia but here in new england when you say rolling pasture and the problem with that is that even at 8 or 10" the grass (deep and lush ) in maine and really gorgeous in ma by now i'm sure ..u r going to b shorting our your wires...the lessons need to be taught when they git in the pasture!!! i cant remember the string i was on but i replied to one a month or two ago in great depth!!
how tall is your smallest animal even in infancy...i have a friend who has many sheep and the problem i think you have is pretty easy...the hot wire needs to b definitely on the bottom..but how r they getting under they stand how tall..they will glean under the lowest of fences even if they know the wire is hot but r they laying on their sides and wrggling out?? i think not..3-6 inches above the ground is going to b a tactical night mare...especially when u have rolling pasture...i would mow a path where u put the new fence so that u have a way of keeping the grass down...10" should be fine but losing a few feet on either side of the fence allows u to b able to keep the grass away from the wires and petting the posts a little farther apart allows u to literally push the mower deck up against the wires..this has been the best way to keep the voltage up high without shorts..my fence kept in the wileyist minature goat who was no taller than 14 " at the shoulders....jist my .02 ..trainem that that wire is not 2 b fooled with is the best trick i've ever learned...will b doing a string on the fastest way to put up a fence soon as i've got to do 3-4 acres of gorgeous grass my self within the next 2 weeks!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[polecat]

the string that u may want to read is..."electric fence"....by grainger 12002 ...posted on 4/04 and on rural living.... /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
and had lots of great stuff in it!!!!
tootaloo /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[KYFARMER]

I have no experience with goats but regular woven fence will stop sheep.
I have about 3/4 mile of high tensile wire fence ( seven wires) in a hilly area. One problem I have found is that when the wire is stretched tight it has a tendency to pull the posts in the low areas out of the ground.
I suspect there is someone in your general area that builds fence for a living. I would consult him to find out what to build and how to build it.