Pen Ideas

SRobles · #1 03/21/08, 01:13 AM

Can you folks show me some pics of your guy's pens? And any advice that would be good for fencing in a creek area

Karin L · #2 03/21/08, 01:39 PM

Are you wanting to fence off the creek and make it a riparian zone, or are you just interested in how to build a fence so that the pasture/corral includes the creek area? I know it probably sounds like a stupid question but your question was kinda general...to me anyway...

We have a corral that includes a slough/creek area and in the spring, after having cattle in there for many years, the corrals include that wet area and it stays wet for all spring and into summer. So pretty much we have to work around the wet spots some how, and have the feed and bedding on higher ground. Technically that corral we have is in a very poor location, but we manage.

What you could do is try to fence around the creek, have an area for the animals to go across if they have to, but try and have the fencing done on higher ground. I've noticed that after every spring flooding in a creek area the posts that are pounded into the slough-area get higher every year (they get brought up by the frost action and water-and-soil action and what-not).

That's my 2 cents.

SRobles · #3 03/21/08, 02:12 PM

Im looking to fence it off to put some longhorn's in there to keep the brush down

Karin L · #4 03/21/08, 04:34 PM

Well then, maybe you could just fence along the creek area if you have to access both sides, and have a little alleyway so the cattle can get from one area to another. This is just a suggestion, it might work it might not...but good luck.

copperhead46 · #5 03/22/08, 03:54 PM

If you creek is anything like mine, the water will rise and take out any kind of fence you put across it....We just had a 4 ft wall of water come down our creek, and took out fence, ten feet of band and lots of trees. Anything you put across a creek, needs to be replaceable, because you will have to re-place it. We string electric fence wire, (not hooked up) across the creek, and when it comes up, and takes it out, it's easy to put it back. I use wide white wire, so they can see it and so far no one has tried to go through it.
P.J.