[Homestead] Fencing
Lynda
lurine at softcom.net
Mon Jun 2 13:57:43 EDT 2008
No climb horse fencing at 5' will keep all the critters in. Depending on
the size of fields and the availability of graze and how tempting what is on
the other side of the fence is, I'd add a hot wire 12" off the ground inside
the fence. It will keep the sheep/lambs from doing the shove/semi-burrow
thing under the fence. When/if you get a big horse, I'd add a hot wire on
the top to keep them from leaning the fencing down. I'd cement in chainlink
fence posts as my corner posts.
This type of fencing also keep other critters out!
The fencing that is smaller on the bottom and then gets bigger at the top
is, IMNSHO <g>, worthless! It will cost less at the beginning but it
doesn't hold up. We've BTDT!
Now, on the other hand, we are doing high tensile wire which we are doing
electric on the bottom two wires. In an ideal world where cost doesn't
matter, we'd do the no-climb. Unfortunately, the occasional lottery tickets
we've purchased haven't made us independently wealthy <g> When/if we get a
horse, we'll fire up the top wire. It has worked quite well for our
neighbors at deterring bear and mountain lions.
Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: <paxamicus at earthlink.net>
>I want to lock this new place up like Ft. Knox. I am tired of sub-par
> fencing job which we've been struggling with in this place.
>
> I have sheep, lambs, two ponies and possibly another horse at some
> point. Dogs. Cats. I want to run a solid, garden type privacy fence
> along the front of the house and on either side for a little bit, to
> avoid the Border Collies fixating on car chasing.
> For the lambs, I want it "solid" wire at least a foot or two up, so
> they can't bumble through it.
>
> I'm debating different kinds of fence and thought we might could talk
> about what you all like best, and what you don't.
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