FENCING
This is a necessity, but there are a lot of variables.
Practical parts like this are always part of it. For one, knowing where your property boundary is a good thing, but on the homestead, there is a lot more to consider when it comes to fencing.
FENCES - MORE THAN JUST A DECORATION
T-post, barbed wire, and some cow skulls! A nice fence by anyone's taste I'm sure, but there more to a fence than just decoration. Here on the homestead, we have two main goals. One goal is to keep certain things out, and the other is to keep certain things in.
There are a lot of things that we would rather not have on our land. Strangers is just one of them. Another is the animals, the wild animals. Yes, wild animals need places to live too and I'm not saying that there is no place for them on the earth. However, there are certain wild animals that we would rather not have on our land, and a good fence can help with that. Animals like wild hogs, coyotes, stray dogs, and others can all pose a potential threat to my family and our livestock.
Having baby lambs born on the homestead can be a beautiful and precious thing. Having baby lambs killed and eaten on the homestead is not so precious though. If we are going to have animals, we want to keep them safe, and a good fence will help with that.
The other goal in our fencing is to keep certain things in, primarily our children and livestock. Too many homesteaders can share tales of chasing various runaway animals around the countryside. Proper fencing can wind up saving you a lot of time that you would otherwise waste trying to catch your loose livestock.
Lately, I've spent a lot of time thinking about fencing. I didn't want to go the barbed wire route, and that wouldn't work well with our sheep anyway. Both the Shetland/Finn sheep and the Jacob's sheep have thick wool. This means that they can easily get it tangled in the barbs and become trapped. This is not what we are looking for.
I've finally begun (hopefully) permanently installing some of our perimeter fencing. Both the temporary garden fencing and some of the temporary fencing that I put up on our land was made out of T-posts and cattle panels. I have some plans to use rocks and some other things in the process, but I'm planning on attempting a secure fence that last for years to come.
If it is built properly, it should keep certain things out, and other things in. We will see, and I've certainly got my work cut out for me, but I've got it started.
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-needing-fencing
Until next time…
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No matter how hard you try some guys just don't get it :) Hahahahaha
I've had that happen to me before! Incredible creatures.
Real life post turtle!
(Image, plus the Post Turtle Story, from here.)
Lol
nice. It's always the turtle - the most under-rated over achiever. It wasn't satisfied by beating the rabbit. Now it wants to challenge the world.
No they don't. They just want to cross the border. haha
T-posts and cattle pannels are GREAT..but pricy.
but you have ROCKS...
so...put the cattlepanel/t-post fence up first then gradually,
overtime.
build a stone wall beside it...
Nothing can go THRU a stonewall (no critters anyway)...only over it...and a solar-electric hot wire on top will discourage that idea.
update...you has WATER...otherwise there's be no trees and grass
which brings to mind a hedge...
plant a hedge (multa flora rose or perhaps boise d'arc?) inside the wall? (not hot wire on the top will then be needed)
Nice! Good thinking. I was considering Osage Orange, since they used to make hedges out of it.
that works too.
let the hederowgrow...good cover for critters (rabbits, birds...and stuff)...for HUNTING...
it's a win win.
Very good one my friend! Sadly -20 degrees here at my placr,winter overshadowing everything
That amount of fencing looks expensive and a lot of hard work but what else can you do, cheers mike
Yeah, we will see. So far, it is working out.
If I was in the car and drove by your fence I would take off faster than I arrived.
The cow skulls don't give you "warm, fuzzy feeling" inside?
That's a great work! In my place some people just let their livestocks live freely without fencing and eat anything they want .. including the other people's crops. lol
this is a cow from where @papa-pepper.
but quite interesting,
Nice post. Well-done sir. Fencing is for security reasons as you rightly said but there are certain things to be considered when choosing which other fencing materials to use. A fence made with wood was done close to my place but it didn't last long as the animals kept on knocking at it till it fell. Lol.. It was just a waste of time and resources, the man later adopted the use of iron sheet, barb wire and metal poles. Up till now, the fence is still in good condition
Nice work you've done there. Erection of fence is necessary to guard against indiscriminate entry and exit of both animals and humans. With that you will be securing your animals from threat of wild animals and theft. And more over, you've chose we because materials for contructing fence differs and one needs to choose based on the animals one is breeding. Well. Done, my favourite homesteader
Let that be a warning to the other cows!
LOL! Good point! Maybe that is the message!