Cattle Fence Installation

The remaining length is how deep your fence post installation needs to be.

Cattle fence installation. Pasture fencing for cattle require simple barbed wire or high tensile fences whereas for pigs goats and sheep pasture fencing requires page wire up to a 3 to 5 feet 0 9 to 1 5 m tall respectively. With cattle for example corral fences need to be tougher and stable than pasture fences. Since fence posts tend to vary somewhat in length first measure off from the skinniest end the height of your netting and mark with a pencil. But a horse requires 3 4 strands of wire.

I have friends that raise cattle and horses for a living. Electrified high tensile 4 strand min. It requires only one or two strands of wire to hold in a cow. This is perhaps the toughest part of the entire process of installing the fence.

Install the fence posts. This creates the safest possible electrical system for your fence installation. How deep should the hole be. Today on the farm vlog we ll be helping out a neighbor with his fencing.

I ll show you how we install staple and stretch out high tensile woven wire fence a. Non electric high tensile 5 strand min. The fence technical guide of usda s nrcs is the standard that is often referenced in michigan. We show you how to install an electric fence safely and effectively.

As a rule of thumb the bigger the area of land where you want the fencing to encapsulate the bigger the space is needed between fence posts. An electric fence is a neat highly efficient way to keep livestock where they belong.