The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: YoungRasher on December 19, 2014, 07:25:11 pm
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Hi all.
I'm wanting to move my sheep into our other field but we have a boundry wall that has a lot of issues that I can't fix in time. The plan is to stock fence it next year when we can get the tractors in the field with out churning it up to much.
anyway. I've been looking at getting a 500m 3 reel electric fence setup. I read a few reviews and got mixed information. will my mules just walk through it or will it work. I won't hold you to it but i'd like some feedback from people who have used this sort of system. Once the fencing is done I'd like to continue using the electric for strip grazing.
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Sounds like a great plan and here's a link I've been saving for when the time comes.
http://www.rappa.co.uk/advice-centre/23-wire-heights-post-spacings-for-electric-fencing (http://www.rappa.co.uk/advice-centre/23-wire-heights-post-spacings-for-electric-fencing)
Let us know how you get on.
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Use the 3 reel system for sheep and 2 reel for cattle ,prefer steel wire rather than plastic bigger kick , for sheep I run horse white tape as the top wire as a visual aid to the sheep . Keep wires really tight and no earthing on crop and battery fully charged ( use leisure batterys as they can loose charge and be recharged many times , mains better still )
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having priced everything up and considering the chances or someone steeling my shiney new electric fence setup i've decided to get the 2 handled post knocker out and just put up a fence.