Neat places in Texas?

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( the high ratio of fencing )</font>

The other guys have very well answered your question, but that's one of the things I noticed when I was doing gas leakage surveys; i.e., walking all the natural gas lines in an area. Fences everywhere in Texas, but very few in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Louisiana, and Arizona where I did jobs.

 

[RanchMan]

Bird -

Your observations line up pretty well with cattle production in those states. (i.e. low compared to Texas - Texas being #1 in total production by a landslide). If ya wanna have some fun, you can compare state production stats from the USDA site by following This Link. Just click on U.S. and State Data then click on Cattle on the following page. After that, put in your query specifics and Submit Request. All boils down to there bein' LOTS of cattle here in the Lone Star State. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Your observations line up pretty well with cattle production in those states )</font>

I agree, but while I did some cross country gas line surveys, the vast majority of my work was in town, some in downtown business districts, but most in residential areas. And in those other states, very few fences around residential lots and houses like we have in Texas. When I was doing that work, we were living and traveling in a motorhome. Now most RV parks and even mobile home parks even in Texas do not allow fences, but in Hereford, TX, there was no RV park, but there was a mobile home park with some vacancies that rented me a space with all utilities for a month and each mobile home lot was separately fenced with a 4' chain link fence with a walk gate and a 20' wide double gate at the front of each, as well as a walk gate at the rear into the alley where the garbage was picked up.

I spent 4 months one place in Pennsylvania and saw fewer fences in that 4 months in residential areas than I'd see in one day in Texas.

 

[Poppa]

Harv, you have just described the portion of Colorado I am in to a tee. We have whole neighborhoods devoted to the estatesville folks and the animal husbandry folk. Another easy way to tell who is running which development is by the presence of pavement on the neighborhood roads. Estatesville always has paved roads cause the mud and washboard is awful tough on convertible BMWs and MBs. Do not move into an animal husbandry tract though and think you are going to petition to have the road paved. You will end up with a lot of angry horse owners. Overall the segregation works out pretty smoothly. Mostly cause the animal husbandry types can't see using most of their acreage for a house when there are barns and shops that need to be built. The estatesville folks have some of the absolutely nicest houses but no way to tell who's horse is who's so they just do without.

Mike

 

[RanchMan]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( very few fences around residential lots and houses like we have in Texas. )</font>

Yea, I've noticed that while watching some of the home improvement shows.

 

[Libertine]

wroughtn_harv:
I get your drift. Many places I passed didn't have livestock (although some did). The fencing was lots of places though-perhaps, as you said, some places require it. However, I passed lots of big gates (15' high with an "XYZ" Ranch sign hanging from the cross piece at the top). Hardly necessary to keep the cattle herd in (on 5 acres with no animals in sight). There certainly seem to be lots more property fenced in Texas. Bird seems to confirm my observation. Anyway, thanks for the response.

Ranchman:
given your quote of the law in Texas that, too, could be part of the motivation.

Anway, wasn't criticizing-I've always been a believer in "good fences make good neightbors."

JEH