02/12/07, 08:21 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 4,190
|
|
|
Electric Fences and Angus Bulls
One whole side of my place is two-strand, l4 guage, electric fence and all interior fences are single strand. I use the electric twine for temporary fences. I have a couple of Parmak battery powered fencers and one that runs off 110 V ac. During this last ice storm my fences were totally dead for several days and nothing strayed.
I arrange my wire gates so that the wire is only hot when the gate is closed. This means that I have to have an electric loop sticking out so that I can hook the gate end into it.
I once let that loop extend past the post into the gate opening and a 2200 pound bull, gentle as a pup, brushed against it as he went thru. It took me half a day to coax him back inside when it was time to close up. I did it with a bucket of cubes, offering him one at a time and stepping back a few inches each time. You might be amazed how long a bull's tongue is when he does not want to follow you thru a gate.
Ox
|
