Post by sunbee on Apr 14, 2020 21:33:49 GMT
What it says in the subject.
What is the most multipurpose fencing for a perimeter fence? The list of livestock under consideration includes cow, goats, sheep, horse, and livestock guardian dog. Chickens are already around.
Wildlife includes everything from Mountain Lions to deer to wild turkeys. Fruit trees are beaver-proofed. Nothing's moose-proofed. We haven't seen sign of bear or wolf here, yet. Note the yet: short of humans deciding on eradication, we can expect them to show up within the next forty years.
I'm planning good old-fashioned jackleg along the creek banks to keep any big animals from tearing them up, may have to add wire if sheep and goats happen. Also my sons and I have built jackleg before, so it's a known skill. We don't have that many suitable cut trees to do the entire property.
No point to fencing in the rocks, they don't grow much but a few sage and junipers, no grazing. No one grazes on the BLM land behind it, either. So for about four acres of pasture, with a fairly steep partly wooded hill, and a creek running through the bottom, what would you pick? We average a foot of precipitation a year out here. There's bits of 60+ year old wood fence, somewhat newer barbed wire, etc. The yard is in chain link. Figure we can subdivide internally with electric.
We'll need at least one field access gate coming off the road, and us and north neighbors have same age kids who've worn a path through the pastures, so we want a foot gate for them in that property line. North neighbors are definitely in on the project, but he tore a knee last summer and my dad spent a month in the hospital, and the guy neighbor ordered fencing from turned out to be a scammer, and . . . anyway, 2019 sucked for getting anything done. I don't know if South neighbors will want in or not--they haven't had horses for a few years and currently they're in their fifties and eighties, the kids aren't living there right now.
What is the most multipurpose fencing for a perimeter fence? The list of livestock under consideration includes cow, goats, sheep, horse, and livestock guardian dog. Chickens are already around.
Wildlife includes everything from Mountain Lions to deer to wild turkeys. Fruit trees are beaver-proofed. Nothing's moose-proofed. We haven't seen sign of bear or wolf here, yet. Note the yet: short of humans deciding on eradication, we can expect them to show up within the next forty years.
I'm planning good old-fashioned jackleg along the creek banks to keep any big animals from tearing them up, may have to add wire if sheep and goats happen. Also my sons and I have built jackleg before, so it's a known skill. We don't have that many suitable cut trees to do the entire property.
No point to fencing in the rocks, they don't grow much but a few sage and junipers, no grazing. No one grazes on the BLM land behind it, either. So for about four acres of pasture, with a fairly steep partly wooded hill, and a creek running through the bottom, what would you pick? We average a foot of precipitation a year out here. There's bits of 60+ year old wood fence, somewhat newer barbed wire, etc. The yard is in chain link. Figure we can subdivide internally with electric.
We'll need at least one field access gate coming off the road, and us and north neighbors have same age kids who've worn a path through the pastures, so we want a foot gate for them in that property line. North neighbors are definitely in on the project, but he tore a knee last summer and my dad spent a month in the hospital, and the guy neighbor ordered fencing from turned out to be a scammer, and . . . anyway, 2019 sucked for getting anything done. I don't know if South neighbors will want in or not--they haven't had horses for a few years and currently they're in their fifties and eighties, the kids aren't living there right now.
