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Temporary Fence Ideas
Extension Learning FarmCornell Cooperative Extension
St. Lawrence CountyBetsy Hodge, Livestock Educator
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What are your choices:
• Polywire on step in posts – various corners
• Electro‐netting
• Reels, polywire and posts
• Smooth wire on posts
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Polywire and posts
• Need reels to control the wire
• Can run one, two or three strands
• Must be hot
• Not as predator proof
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Smooth wire and posts
• Popular with beef (can work with horses) – One strand or two– More permanent– Good for divider
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Netting
• Worked with Premier1 Supplies• Primarily portable electro‐net
– Short‐one prong– Short‐two prong– Tall‐two prong
• We used it at perimeter but it would be great to use with a good perimeter fence as a divider.
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Our Favorite….
• Short‐two prong– Can step it into the ground– Can get it in when the ground is dry– Stands a little better than one
• Tall is too heavy if you are moving it much– Animals stayed in the short just fine if there was a charge on the fence
• Must be a charge on the fence!!!
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Fencing Basics
• Need something to move it around “buggy”
• Taking down is harder work than putting up
• Can use lots of help taking down
• 2 people putting up is good – maybe 3
• A sense of humor helps a lot
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More Basics
• Do a good job rolling it up or you will PAY
• Don’t leave it in place too long – hard to get out of the grass…and don’t set one down and leave it…it will disappear quickly
• Take it down one day and put it up the next
• Put up some ahead and then take down dividers
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Pros
• Can make the paddock any size you want• Can clean up areas that you used to mow or ignore
• Can improvise through or around almost anything
• Good workout – get to see your animals• Easy to learn – family, interns, boss
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Cons
• Need to do it early in the day – HOT
• Thistles, nettles, honeysuckle, burdocks
• Black flies, horse flies, deer Flies
• Have to do it when it needs to be done
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Charger
• Used charger from one barn or the other
• Battery Charger (used battery that we re‐charged –NOT) or the tractor battery if that was handy…
• Attach to a good perimeter fence!!!
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Moving
• Sometimes we spent more time figuring out where to put the fence than actually putting it up.
• Animals had no trouble moving – we got better at it and so did they
• Cows first, sheep second• New calves and lambs can be a challenge
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Recommendations:
• Have a secure barnyard area
• A good perimeter fence makes things easier
• Have enough fence to set it up ahead
• Lamb/Calve before you start the rotation
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Storage?
• Pays to take some time to repair it as you put it away (good idea to put it away before the snow flies…)
• Away from sun, rodents, other wire, animals
• Can put rolls in bags
• Wind up on reels, put posts in trash barrels
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Using it in winter???
• Bale grazing
• Emergency fencing
• Need a hammer, drill, blocks of wood with holes drilled in them, string, extra step‐ins, patience.
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