Highland Cattle Like November Grass

Reader Contribution by Hank Will and Editor-In-Chief
Published on November 25, 2008
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<p>November 25<sup>th</sup> and there&rsquo;s still at least two months of good pasture left &hellip; assuming continuous hard freezes or deep snow don&rsquo;t shut it down. We put up about a quarter mile of temporary electric cross fence last weekend to give the cattle and donkeys a fresh break.</p>
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<p>The east and west boundary fences on this farm are pretty well shot. The old barbed wire hasn&rsquo;t had any but the most rudimentary maintenance for what appears to be the last decade. The north and south boundary fences, on the other hand, are in good shape. So far, we have reinforced the western boundary with a couple of strands of 14-gauge low-tensile electric wire that pulses around 8,000 volts with the makeshift grounding system we cobbled together. I just wrapped the ground lead from the charger around an old copper water pipe that goes somewhere beneath the barn &hellip; this is far from the right way. That fencer will likely send closer to 10,000 volts through the wire once I get a proper ground field put together.</p>
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