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Post by lonecowhand on Oct 1, 2014 17:05:34 GMT
This looks like it could come in handy! It won't replace solid high tensile wire enclosures, but to temporarily contain your critters , I can see some real advantages. It's called "Smartfence", I checked around here and it costs about $200., add the neato portable battery pack for anotherC-note. There's about 350 ft of fence on this thing, so about an 80x80 corral/paddock or any size smaller! Check it out at: www.gallagherusa.com/smartfence/ |
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Post by lakeportfarms on Oct 1, 2014 17:31:02 GMT
I had a chance to try this out in person. It worked ok, but was a bit cumbersome. I suppose if you have calves you also want to contain, or have an area with absolutely no perimeter fence it's a good option. Since our cows and bulls are so well trained to single hot wire, we could do a similar setup with pigtail step ins, polywire on the reel, and, at least for a while, no charger! In fact, a week ago I forgot to turn on the switch to a group of 50 for 4 days while they were strip grazing. None of them ducked or jumped the line  |
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Post by lonecowhand on Oct 1, 2014 20:52:39 GMT
Was that lately? they mentioned improvements... sounds like your animals are well enough trained you could set up mylar ribbon and they'd respect it! Good show!
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