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Someone suggested my dividing hot wire was too low for some big steers. Anyway, I have a VERY hot fence charger on some carefully watched hot wire. The charger is well grounded. When I bring calves home to wean I run the fence in my central paddock, which contains my corral for loading. When I bring the calves home I lock them into the corral only, with food and water and with about 4 of my best behaved older calves in the paddock which contains the corral. After about 10-24 hours when the weanlings settle down a bit, and get used to their "neighbors", I turn them out into the paddock. Before I turn them out I disconnect all of my hot wire except the central paddock. I have found that having some older calves with them in the paddock is a great benefit. The older calves already know the boundary and will actually nudge the weanlings away from the fence. Secondly that wire around just the paddock is VERY hot. Once my cattle are broke to the electric fence (2 day tops) I turn the fence off and leave it off about 80% of the time until I bring more home to wean. The only reason I leave it on 20% of the time is to keep any vegetation killed. After my cattle have experienced the wire one time, a year later you cannot get them to go through even and open gate without great hesitation on their part. The only way they go through is by following my "mule" as they all know it as a non-threatening food source.