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<blockquote data-quote="CowboyRam" data-source="post: 1717901" data-attributes="member: 42312"><p>Dad talks about when he worked for Warren Livestock out of Cheyenne, they would take the cows down into Colorado on the corn fields. Once those cows learned that there was an electric fence there, they would have one hell of a time driving them across that line after the fence was taken down. I guess they got bit enough times that they just knew there was a fence there even though it was not. They learn pretty quickly. </p><p></p><p>I put my post 30' apart, and then dad got me worried that the calves would crawl through the fence, so I put in some fiberglass stays between each post. I really thought I would have problems with the calves on side and the cows on the other. They seem to respect that fence. Even when I had a short in the fence and my voltage was cut in half, but also they had been there a couple weeks before that happened. They don't like to get bit anymore than we do. If you end up with low voltage it is usually because you have a short somewhere, and sometimes they are hard to find. When I had my issue with the fence I was sure it was a battery issue, but it was not, it was short in a place I could not test for easily.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CowboyRam, post: 1717901, member: 42312"] Dad talks about when he worked for Warren Livestock out of Cheyenne, they would take the cows down into Colorado on the corn fields. Once those cows learned that there was an electric fence there, they would have one hell of a time driving them across that line after the fence was taken down. I guess they got bit enough times that they just knew there was a fence there even though it was not. They learn pretty quickly. I put my post 30' apart, and then dad got me worried that the calves would crawl through the fence, so I put in some fiberglass stays between each post. I really thought I would have problems with the calves on side and the cows on the other. They seem to respect that fence. Even when I had a short in the fence and my voltage was cut in half, but also they had been there a couple weeks before that happened. They don't like to get bit anymore than we do. If you end up with low voltage it is usually because you have a short somewhere, and sometimes they are hard to find. When I had my issue with the fence I was sure it was a battery issue, but it was not, it was short in a place I could not test for easily. [/QUOTE]
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