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As above was thinking about making small areas with electric net for young lambs before they go into paddocks with polywire, good idea or not. Thoughts, experience please.
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We buy ewe lambs(North country mules) which we put into a triangular well fenced field. When they have settled down an electric polywire 4 strand fence is erected across the top end.They stay in there until the grass is all eaten.With a good fencer it does not take long for them to respect it .We graze sheep on Salisbury Plain so make sure they are electric fence trained!! So much so that the electric fence has to be opened as no sheep will go over a pegged down fence .
We buy ewe lambs(North country mules) which we put into a triangular well fenced field. When they have settled down an electric polywire 4 strand fence is erected across the top end.They stay in there until the grass is all eaten.With a good fencer it does not take long for them to respect it .We graze sheep on Salisbury Plain so make sure they are electric fence trained!! So much so that the electric fence has to be opened as no sheep will go over a pegged down fence .
I've never understood the idea of pegging a fence down to run sheep over it. Surely that's about the best way to train them to go over a live fence? Madness.
Would you put ewes with baby lambs straight into paddock with poly wire rather than behind net for a day or two firstAgreed, I can't stand it! I have considered if pegging down the fence and covering it with a mat (possibly AstroTurf?) as a way of walking sheep over fences without them learning to cross the wire...
Would you put ewes with baby lambs straight into paddock with poly wire rather than behind net for a day or two first
Would you put ewes with baby lambs straight into paddock with poly wire rather than behind net for a day or two first
Would you put ewes with baby lambs straight into paddock with poly wire rather than behind net for a day or two first
My ewes and baby lambs went straight out into a field with 4 strand polywire to keep them off a really poached headland that the heifers had ruined over winter. Never had an issue with lambs going under the wire in fact the whole time they were here not once did one escape
Now that you've said that you're officially f cked for next season...
This.Electric net and young lambs;there's going to be a hanging...or three.
Electric net and young lambs;there's going to be a hanging...or three.
Can you explain a bit more re the Livestock v Flexinet
We are going to split some of the fields next year and was going to but some netting as never used electric and will have young lambs in the fields
Got a cat tangled in it once
Oh it wasThat sounds as fun as getting a badger out of a snare!