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<blockquote data-quote="agmantoo" data-source="post: 756214" data-attributes="member: 8973"><p>cjk</p><p>For me the paddocks that work best have two very long permanent sides that are parallel to each other. These two fences can be either perimeter or interior but need to be permanent. In the aforementioned sides, the interior fence needs to only be a single high tensile wire. </p><p></p><p>The remaining two temporary fence sides consist of movable polywire and step in posts and are usually installed parallel to each other. This arrangement is used to form a variable size paddock (box). Polywire and single wire fences are electrified.</p><p></p><p>The cattle are put in the paddock to graze. After they have consumed the allotted forage another polywire is erected ahead of the consumed paddock to again allocate forage. The herd is allowed to move into the ungrazed area by opening a "gate" in the now center polywire fence. Once the cattle are on the new forage the "gate" is closed so they cannot return to the consumed paddock. The third polywire fence behind the grazed area is dismantled to be used to establish the new paddock on the next move.</p><p></p><p>As you can readily understand, this creates in some situations, problems in accessing water. Some people run water underground, some on the surface and some transport water in a truck. With some planning and an occasional permitting of the herd to back graze/travel a consumed paddock you can get them to water. You do what you have to do. I have a few commercial waterers and some underground piping but I still use streams. With planning you may be able to layout the paddocks and create lanes to let the cattle access water. I do this also. I make the lanes wide enough that I can use them as supplemental paddocks and graze them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="agmantoo, post: 756214, member: 8973"] cjk For me the paddocks that work best have two very long permanent sides that are parallel to each other. These two fences can be either perimeter or interior but need to be permanent. In the aforementioned sides, the interior fence needs to only be a single high tensile wire. The remaining two temporary fence sides consist of movable polywire and step in posts and are usually installed parallel to each other. This arrangement is used to form a variable size paddock (box). Polywire and single wire fences are electrified. The cattle are put in the paddock to graze. After they have consumed the allotted forage another polywire is erected ahead of the consumed paddock to again allocate forage. The herd is allowed to move into the ungrazed area by opening a "gate" in the now center polywire fence. Once the cattle are on the new forage the "gate" is closed so they cannot return to the consumed paddock. The third polywire fence behind the grazed area is dismantled to be used to establish the new paddock on the next move. As you can readily understand, this creates in some situations, problems in accessing water. Some people run water underground, some on the surface and some transport water in a truck. With some planning and an occasional permitting of the herd to back graze/travel a consumed paddock you can get them to water. You do what you have to do. I have a few commercial waterers and some underground piping but I still use streams. With planning you may be able to layout the paddocks and create lanes to let the cattle access water. I do this also. I make the lanes wide enough that I can use them as supplemental paddocks and graze them. [/QUOTE]
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