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Location: Bandera, TX | Needing some help, my husband just put up some really nice wire for a friend. We're talking about using it on a fence at our place. The wire is 1661/6/12.5.
He really liked the idea of not having to put up a top strand of barb since the wire is plenty high that horses should not "neck it down".
We will use a bottom strand of barb for our hog problems.
The wire is high tensile. We are looking at a holding in goats, cattle and horses.
My question for those that have this wire, have you had your goats get their heads stuck in the 8/9th rows?
If you had to do it all over again would you have just gone with the 1661/3/12.5?
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| I've been told by our vet that barbless wire is awful just due to the fact that you cannot really tell when a horse get caught in it and it burns them to heck when they are fighting it. If it wasn't much I would but the continuous fencing or barbed wire. |
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| As Tatum 2 said we had more injuries because they did not respect it, Now finally after 10 years have replaced it all |
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | I'm doing 5' 2x4 no climb horse fence. 8' post spacing, I run two hotwires on top. It runs tight to the ground, It is stretched very tight and I haven't had a problem with my pigs digging out or my horses leaning on it. If the pigs do become a problem I'll put a hot wire on the bottom, but one that will break if a horse ever gets caught up in it. I've done high tension electric wire and like it for cross fencing, and yes I prefer closer spacing with goats and sheep.
Edited by equussynergy 2015-04-23 9:14 AM
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Location: Heart of Texas | To build on the previous post. I would use no climb fencing with barb wire on the top as well. We put it up on all 3 sides of our 12 acres and love it! The horses don't push it down since it's so high and it keeps all our 5 dogs in. Now, ONE side of out property is like the fencing you described. My neighbor has goats. Twice his goats have stuck their heads thru, got caught because of their horns, and my dogs have killed them. Not fun for us or the neighbor I assure you. You can't control what's on the outside of your fence. So if you like your goats. Get fencing they can't stick their heads thru. |
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Location: Bandera, TX | Thanks for the replays but those options won't work. This is for 4 miles of pasture fence. Thought someone on our board would have used it and I could get a thumbs up or down. I think I'm going to go for it and if I don't like go another route on the next pasture fence. |
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