NonTypicalCPA
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My pasture started out as a horse pasture and when my daughter came to her senses, with a big push from dad, it turned into my cattle pasture. I fenced my original pasture and dry lot with poly rope, three hot and one ground. It's hot and the cattle respect it. My only escapees are the days old calves as they learn the electric fence, and usually they go through the fence in the congested area of the dry lot.
I've been thinking of adding a physical barrier to my existing 4 strands of poly rope. I'm thinking either a few strands of barb wire or cattle panels. My existing posts are treated wood spaced at 30'. The barb wire would be the easiest and cheapest to run, with only needing to add fence stays, if even that. The cattle panels would require some additional posts at the mid-point of the existing posts, but would probably be safer for the calves. What is everyone's thoughts on this?
If the recommendation is to go with barb wire, can I run them on the outside of the posts, which would be the opposite side of the post from the poly rope. This would create about a 6" gap between the poly rope on the inside and the barb on the outside. Any chance a wayward calf could get "caught" in this gap?
I've been thinking of adding a physical barrier to my existing 4 strands of poly rope. I'm thinking either a few strands of barb wire or cattle panels. My existing posts are treated wood spaced at 30'. The barb wire would be the easiest and cheapest to run, with only needing to add fence stays, if even that. The cattle panels would require some additional posts at the mid-point of the existing posts, but would probably be safer for the calves. What is everyone's thoughts on this?
If the recommendation is to go with barb wire, can I run them on the outside of the posts, which would be the opposite side of the post from the poly rope. This would create about a 6" gap between the poly rope on the inside and the barb on the outside. Any chance a wayward calf could get "caught" in this gap?