Turning out cattle under tb restrictions.

[miniconnect]

Not something we're used to at all up here, but best case scenario we're now going to be under restrictions until July, probably September.

So that has raised the issue of boundary fencing ( as well as loads of other things). How have people fenced, as cheap and as quick as possible to limit contact with neighbours cattle?
It's being hinted that an electric wire isn't good enough, as it's not reliable.
Currently 95% of our current boundary is stocknet and a couple stone dykes here and there.

What's our options?
(In Scotland if it makes a difference)

 

[Woolless]

Not something we're used to at all up here, but best case scenario we're now going to be under restrictions until July, probably September.

So that has raised the issue of boundary fencing ( as well as loads of other things). How have people fenced, as cheap and as quick as possible to limit contact with neighbours cattle?
It's being hinted that an electric wire isn't good enough, as it's not reliable.
Currently 95% of our current boundary is stocknet and a couple stone dykes here and there.

What's our options?
(In Scotland if it makes a difference)

I'm not sure what the requirements would be but a single strand of barb offset from the main fence by whatever distance deemed necessary would keep cattle apart.

 

[sticky]

When I went down I was told, at that time, there had to be a minimum of 3 meters between neighbours, but that was a few years ago.

 

[som farmer]

get a BIG mains fencer, if they are unhappy, ask them to hold it. Our cattle will not go through it, or over it if down. Nuisance at times, but you know where they are.

 

[Dog Bowl]

Also, make sure your fencer is earthed well. I have a feeling most fencers that under perform are probably down to poor earths.

 

[som farmer]

what I would really like to know is, we had a 200m line of high tensile cut last year, by anti b cull brigade, it pinged off all the insulators, on that line, so must have gone off like bullet, and on mains fencer, do you think they learnt a lesson ? Cows were grazing kale, no visible fence, sprung right back, 2 cows had just xed the line, 10 hrs later.

 

[miniconnect]

When I went down I was told, at that time, there had to be a minimum of 3 meters between neighbours, but that was a few years ago.

1m is what was mentioned, but 3m would probably seem more worth while.

Really don't want to make it permanent as what do you do with the strip? Hoping, that we'll get back to 4year testing some day.

I've pretty much banned Barb cattle laugh at it, we've electric on most of our fences, and working our way around removing Barb and replacing it with electric.

 

[flowerpot]

get a BIG mains fencer, if they are unhappy, ask them to hold it. Our cattle will not go through it, or over it if down. Nuisance at times, but you know where they are.

Neighbour nearly killed MIL with that! Their boundary fence had a powerful electric fence unit, it was a long boundary. Our cattle were grazing there. MIL walked over to look at them and accidentally put her hand on the fence, briefly. Later she said she had pain in her chest, so she was taken down to A & E. Took scans, etc. Hospital couldn't understand why she had a bruise on her heart or how she acquired it. I don't think she told them the whole story, she was probably in her early 80s at that time and it took about a couple of weeks for her to recover completely. But, it could have been nasty.