Tuesday, June 7, 2016

The Vital Tips Worth Knowing Concerning Cattle Fencing

By Amy Taylor


In any farm, it is important that barriers are erected. Barriers can be used for the following purposes. Fences are commonly used to clearly partition land that separates a person land from another persons piece of land. Another reason for erecting a barrier is to confine livestock in a certain area and prevent them from trespassing in other peoples property. Cattle fencing are commonly used to restrict animal movement.

For those farmers whose ranches are neighboring a forest, they will definitely have no option but to construct a fence. The forests are the hiding place of predators and in the absence of a strong fence, you will be endangering your livestock. Also to prevent your animals from carelessly mating, you need to separate the bulls from the heifers by use of a fence.

The kind of fence a person wants will determine the kind of materials to use. But in some cases the following will affect the kind of material one installs. Capital, climatic conditions and number of animals or livestock held are some of the factors that influence the kind of fence to install. Other factors that may influence the choice of fencing materials include terrain, location of your farm, and kind of animals being reared in your farm.

If your cattle grazed in another persons ranch or private property, you risk being sued for damages hence the need of fencing. Good fencing usually protects and confines cattle by simply presenting barriers to hinder livestock movement. Barriers may actually be psychological, physical, or probably a combination of physical and psychological. Physical barriers basically comprises of enough and strong materials to prevent or discourage your livestock from going under, jumping over or going through the fence. Psychological fence depend upon inflicting some pain to an animal to discourage it from challenging physical fence of inferior strength. Traditional fencing materials generally included the following.

Barriers are of physical nature, psychological nature or a combination of both. Physical barriers usually are made of strong fencing materials such as wood and woven wires which discourage animals from challenging the barrier. Psychological fence is simply discouraging an animals from challenging any barrier by inflicting pain on it.

Barriers are of three forms that is psychological, physical and in some cases a combination of both. Physical barriers will basically comprise of strong fencing materials that discourage any animal from jumping above it, going below or actually going through it. Psychological is actually playing with the animal mind where pain is inflicted on an animal so as to discourage it from ever challenging physical barriers.

Some of the materials common used in the past include, electrified wire, woven, barbed wire, mesh wire and in some rare cases, some farmers may combine all of this materials to make one very strong fence. Board fence was also a common barrier used by some farmers. Every farmer wants a strong, durable and economical fence.

Some of the maintenance needed on any fence includes replacing, retensioning corners and resettling staples. The advantages of using woven wire fence include, having a strong fence, secure, and relatively good looking. It confines almost all livestock that is including sheep as well as goats. The disadvantages associated with woven fence are, the high initial cost, the maintenance cost is quite high and requires a lot of labor hours to install.




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