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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 933485" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>Some start up suggestions:</p><p></p><p>One thing to add to the other ideas is to put your initial money into first class perimeter fences and gates rather than cattle. 5 wire with 4 of them Red Brand barb and the middle wire smooth 12 gage on insulators. On the perimeter use 4 steel T post between wood posts. If you can use 3 good RR ties for the corners. That middle wire will be your feed for cross fences all around. Look at your water source(s) and a place for a corral. Make sure the corral has easy access from the road for a trailer in all sorts of weather. </p><p></p><p>You can then make some temporary interior paddocks by hand pounding in some steel t posts maybe every 50 ft or so with P type stepins in between. Use Gripples on these initial "semi-permanent" interior fences and there is a neat little sheet metal angle brace piece available at farm stores that connects a vertical T post and one pounded in at an angle to make a pretty sturdy but quick and easily removeable end post and brace. These can be moved as you see where they naturally want to be. These all have a single 14 ga steel hot wire. The perimeter fence should never have to be moved and it makes sure that your cattle are always on your place and not on the road (one of the great high points of owning cattle is getting a call they are out on the road).</p><p></p><p>I like rectangular paddocks maybe 150 ft wide that I can string an aluminum cross wire from a reel with a gate handle at one end across and keep moving it forward ideally once a day for a week with access to water behind. Any fixed size paddock tends to be too big in the spring and too small in the summer.... By using a moveable reel with stepins between a perimeter fence and a parallel semi permanent interior fence you can adjust the size open to your cattle based on herd size, time of year and how long before you will move it again.</p><p></p><p>Enough for now. Just some ideas I have used. Lots of different opinions and ways to go. Good luck.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 933485, member: 7509"] Some start up suggestions: One thing to add to the other ideas is to put your initial money into first class perimeter fences and gates rather than cattle. 5 wire with 4 of them Red Brand barb and the middle wire smooth 12 gage on insulators. On the perimeter use 4 steel T post between wood posts. If you can use 3 good RR ties for the corners. That middle wire will be your feed for cross fences all around. Look at your water source(s) and a place for a corral. Make sure the corral has easy access from the road for a trailer in all sorts of weather. You can then make some temporary interior paddocks by hand pounding in some steel t posts maybe every 50 ft or so with P type stepins in between. Use Gripples on these initial "semi-permanent" interior fences and there is a neat little sheet metal angle brace piece available at farm stores that connects a vertical T post and one pounded in at an angle to make a pretty sturdy but quick and easily removeable end post and brace. These can be moved as you see where they naturally want to be. These all have a single 14 ga steel hot wire. The perimeter fence should never have to be moved and it makes sure that your cattle are always on your place and not on the road (one of the great high points of owning cattle is getting a call they are out on the road). I like rectangular paddocks maybe 150 ft wide that I can string an aluminum cross wire from a reel with a gate handle at one end across and keep moving it forward ideally once a day for a week with access to water behind. Any fixed size paddock tends to be too big in the spring and too small in the summer.... By using a moveable reel with stepins between a perimeter fence and a parallel semi permanent interior fence you can adjust the size open to your cattle based on herd size, time of year and how long before you will move it again. Enough for now. Just some ideas I have used. Lots of different opinions and ways to go. Good luck. Jim [/QUOTE]
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