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<blockquote data-quote="SRBeef" data-source="post: 928451" data-attributes="member: 7509"><p>I would strongly second highgrit's post. I would never rely solely on electric wire to contain calves especially next to a road. Just yesterday I had a young calf get on the wrong side of a very hot wire from it's dam and he went thru that wire, shock and all, like it wasn't even there.</p><p></p><p>You may not want to spend the money on a good fence but the costs of a driver hitting one of your calves on the road may not be to cheap either.</p><p></p><p>A good point highgrit makes is about "calves under 3 months old" not really being sensitive/respectful of electric wires. That is an important point and accurate from what I have seen.</p><p></p><p>Under 3 months your best bet is a 5 or 6 barb wire regular fence with the bottom one 12" off of the ground. If the dam is on the same side of this type fence along with sufficient grazing there is not much incentive for the calves to go through the fence. A 2 or 3 wire high tensile leaves a lot of spaces to get thru and calves just don't seem to pay much attention to the shock under 3 months old. just my experience so far and agrees with highgrit.</p><p></p><p>Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRBeef, post: 928451, member: 7509"] I would strongly second highgrit's post. I would never rely solely on electric wire to contain calves especially next to a road. Just yesterday I had a young calf get on the wrong side of a very hot wire from it's dam and he went thru that wire, shock and all, like it wasn't even there. You may not want to spend the money on a good fence but the costs of a driver hitting one of your calves on the road may not be to cheap either. A good point highgrit makes is about "calves under 3 months old" not really being sensitive/respectful of electric wires. That is an important point and accurate from what I have seen. Under 3 months your best bet is a 5 or 6 barb wire regular fence with the bottom one 12" off of the ground. If the dam is on the same side of this type fence along with sufficient grazing there is not much incentive for the calves to go through the fence. A 2 or 3 wire high tensile leaves a lot of spaces to get thru and calves just don't seem to pay much attention to the shock under 3 months old. just my experience so far and agrees with highgrit. Jim [/QUOTE]
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