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Community => Introduce yourself => Topic started by: elliebear15 on June 22, 2018, 12:47:59 pm
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Hi everyone.
We have just under an acre of grazing (weeds at the moment!) which I am hoping to sort out and get some sheep on. :sheep:
Need to start by getting rid of the rotten fencing, so we have a secure boundary.
We had no idea when we bought the property of it's money-sucking potential!
I think I will be able to keep 3 sheep with that amount of land, as per other posts on this forum.
Can anyone advise the best way to subdivide the field?
Better in half, or in thirds perhaps? It's a simple rectangular shape with good vehicular access and water supply roughly to the middle, so we can divide however we like really.
Any help and tips gratefully received ...
elliebear
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Hello! We're in Lancashire too - whereabouts are you?
Have sheep too - hebrideans. Good fencing is great for peace of mind and avoiding ending up with last minute emergency jobs. We decided to get it done properly, once (well for the forseeable future) and know it would do the job.
You can probably never have enough paddocks, but more sub-divisions mean more fencing and more gates (which are more expensive to install). Electric may be an option for dividing. Maybe do four paddocks and then you can move them round in a circle between them?