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You’ll be needing another livestock trailer with all this ground you’ve got away from home !!!!Do you fancy selling your stock trailer? How much?
You’ll be needing another livestock trailer with all this ground you’ve got away from home !!!!Do you fancy selling your stock trailer? How much?
Run them in a yard then put an electric fence across a corner, not fool proof but helps.How do people put out calves without them going crazy and breaking every row of wire within a mile radius??
Make sure they are hungry so they keen to eat. We let ours stand outside in a yard for half a day before turning them out. Think i read on here once that letting them out in the dark works but not brave enough to try that.How do people put out calves without them going crazy and breaking every row of wire within a mile radius??
How do people put out calves without them going crazy and breaking every row of wire within a mile radius??
They have a whole field. The wire comes later. We use a feed out area with one wire boundary (also means I can put feed out without getting knocked over). When used to that we can split the field.How do people put out calves without them going crazy and breaking every row of wire within a mile radius??
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We've got some smart fences from gallagher, 4 strands electified. Show them a wire in the shed before they go out, then get plenty of people to stand behind the fences while they run around like loons and find the boundaries. They settled within an hour this year and I've only had one get out since. This lot are about 5 weeks old and fed on a trailer feeder.
Looks good, what posts do you use with the wires?
I'm quite keen to get a kiwitech system for calves, a very similar design, but with the ability to make longer breaks
I find once they spend a month or so a single wire knee height is reasonably successful, although I get the occasional calf that just will not behave.
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We’re DT2 area so can’t be far?Is there anyone local to DT6 6NG im looking at some cows in that area so was after some background information
@Ducati899Is there anyone local to DT6 6NG im looking at some cows in that area so was after some background information
Closer than i am tho. So still better at directions than @More to lifeBridport way I think,quite a way from me