I have a new neighbor with a 4 acre pasture containing 2 cows and new calves. The setting is docile. Cows are relaxed and younguns are doing what younguns do. Going to split in two for rotational pastures with a hot wire fence. Question has to do with hot wire running down the center of flat ground, almost square.
Before considering the calves, I usually run a hot about 3' high and a cold about a foot below ...just talking about running wire, not the rest of the system. Considering the calves and the fact that they just love to lie down adjacent to a fence and get up on the wrong side...always, and to a fairly new born, getting shocked could be a de-stabilizing influence, (happened to me once a long time ago) the question is:
What would you do to keep the calves contained, one being about 2 weeks old, up and around, plenty of spirit, and the other about a month or so. Run another hot a foot off the ground (making it a foot below the cold)? I would like to know what you do.
Thanks,
Mark
Before considering the calves, I usually run a hot about 3' high and a cold about a foot below ...just talking about running wire, not the rest of the system. Considering the calves and the fact that they just love to lie down adjacent to a fence and get up on the wrong side...always, and to a fairly new born, getting shocked could be a de-stabilizing influence, (happened to me once a long time ago) the question is:
What would you do to keep the calves contained, one being about 2 weeks old, up and around, plenty of spirit, and the other about a month or so. Run another hot a foot off the ground (making it a foot below the cold)? I would like to know what you do.
Thanks,
Mark