Do I need to fence this off?

I knew a guy with a burned out barn with basement. The kids had laid a beam across the hole so they could walk the tightrope for fun. The family milk cow decided to try one day and fell in the basement, and was hard to get out.

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In the state of TN, at the insistence of some special interest groups, the politicians bent over and passed a law which says that we must provide food, water and shelter for all our animals. Like we didn’t know that and needed a state law to remind us!
Trees and wind brakes qualify as shelter and that sure looks like good shelter to me!
It also looks like a real good place to put a hay ring for the winter.
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Fencing it off would be a real shame. I bet many a whitetail deer browse through that gully. I even heard whitetail steak go good with country eggs, I'd leave it natural for all to enjoy....Topside

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If we fenced off everything like that around here, we wouldn't have anything left.

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Exactly my feelings. One area like this would bother me more than a lot of them actually. May sound strange but cattle accustomed to manuevering around such things because they are common, are less likely to have accidents than cows who run across them rarely. So for me.....if I wondered enough about it to ask, I'd probably fence it off. I'm all for common sense and not over-pampering, but if in doubt.....

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Wow! So many responses! My answer is no, I don't see anything that would cause a problem. Though I don't allow my cattle in the woods like my grandparents did on this place 40 years ago, your gully is mild compared to the slope of my mountainside and no comparison with the bluffs.

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I agree with tinknal. If erosion is a concern it needs to be fenced.
You wouldn't believe some of the steep gullies we saw cattle in on BLM land in Colorado. None of them had any problem getting around.