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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 822953" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Your daily chores amount to checking and feeding - you're right.</p><p>What people are getting at is the non-daily chores, exceptional events, which can tie you up for half a day chasing and cussing or trying to get hold of a vet. Without good facilities to keep the steers on your property those exceptional events could happen five or six times a day.</p><p>With all the experience, manpower, facilities you like, cattlemen have "exceptional" events occur regularly - don't the stories on the board prove that! Without them, they just happen more often.</p><p></p><p>Of course you could do this and be happy doing it - if you both secure your orchard and accept any losses that occur if the cattle do get into it, control your dogs until they are familiar with the cattle and the cattle with them and neither are showing inclination to bait the other, build a decent fence and check it as part of your daily/weekly chores (trees are less likely to fall on it if you remove any overhanging limbs or wobbly ones that are near the fence) and run a hot wire on the inside of the acreage.</p><p>Mud may or may not be an issue - I don't know your climate and soil type. But using an electric fence to graze in rotation will maximise grass growth and minimise ground damage *provided* you move them to a sacrifice area and feed them hay in very wet weather. So you have one small mud patch, not two acres of it.</p><p>Some folks can give their cows enough grass and leave for a week. I personally wouldn't sleep till I got back if I did that. 48 hours or pay someone else to come look after them is my limit.</p><p>Dun's advice about the gate wire is the best - you do the hard work once and never touch it again. You can also run the insulated wire directly across the ground and simply drive over it when you need to, but expect to replace it regularly in that case, eventually the insulation will split (even if the wire is run through alkathene as well) and the electricity'll start cracking onto the ground. I've seen wires with a handle run directly across the gate as Suzie describes but there's a high chance of it hotting up the whole gate from time to time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 822953, member: 9267"] Your daily chores amount to checking and feeding - you're right. What people are getting at is the non-daily chores, exceptional events, which can tie you up for half a day chasing and cussing or trying to get hold of a vet. Without good facilities to keep the steers on your property those exceptional events could happen five or six times a day. With all the experience, manpower, facilities you like, cattlemen have "exceptional" events occur regularly - don't the stories on the board prove that! Without them, they just happen more often. Of course you could do this and be happy doing it - if you both secure your orchard and accept any losses that occur if the cattle do get into it, control your dogs until they are familiar with the cattle and the cattle with them and neither are showing inclination to bait the other, build a decent fence and check it as part of your daily/weekly chores (trees are less likely to fall on it if you remove any overhanging limbs or wobbly ones that are near the fence) and run a hot wire on the inside of the acreage. Mud may or may not be an issue - I don't know your climate and soil type. But using an electric fence to graze in rotation will maximise grass growth and minimise ground damage *provided* you move them to a sacrifice area and feed them hay in very wet weather. So you have one small mud patch, not two acres of it. Some folks can give their cows enough grass and leave for a week. I personally wouldn't sleep till I got back if I did that. 48 hours or pay someone else to come look after them is my limit. Dun's advice about the gate wire is the best - you do the hard work once and never touch it again. You can also run the insulated wire directly across the ground and simply drive over it when you need to, but expect to replace it regularly in that case, eventually the insulation will split (even if the wire is run through alkathene as well) and the electricity'll start cracking onto the ground. I've seen wires with a handle run directly across the gate as Suzie describes but there's a high chance of it hotting up the whole gate from time to time. [/QUOTE]
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