- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Too right it is easier.Could you show us some pictures of the fencing keeping those sheep nice and tight please ?
Next season I'm considering bringing sheep in to graze with the heifers to help with ragwort control. Should be a great deal easier than hand roguing assuming that I can keep them in.
I confess I had to put up a two-wire backfence to keep them from outspanning across what they'd already grazed/what I reserved for the cow/calf mob, but they're behind a single wire at about knee height. Because the grass is halfway there the gap isn't as obvious as you'd think.
I just use white Gallagher sheep treadins as even my shorty pigtails aren't visible enough or short enough; fine for the morning move but not so good in the twilight, they just don't see the fence until they're through it.
Ditto the red treadins and orange polywire.
So we just use white and white.
I was just using pigtails within the "lanes" over the weekend, because I had time I bunched them onto 1/4ha and moved them a couple of extra times for some thistle-controlling grass wasteage.
Plus I ran them up and down the lane half a dozen times for extra trample before letting them over..
Quite a bit of stem in here as I gave these fields a few extra days to help the clover thicken up
I will get a picture of the various wire/height combo's we find most effective for sheep+cattle though.
Generally 3 is a waste of time because the lowest wire is only 2 spots below where I have my single wire; sometimes due to contour I drop my nuts and put one on top because I can't believe the cattle won't just walk over the top of it.