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Temporary Fence Ideas Extension Learning Farm Cornell Cooperative Extension St. Lawrence County Betsy Hodge, Livestock Educator

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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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