Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Rural Living Woven Wire Fence.

We call it ‘page wire’. Our main fences are page wire on railroad ties. It lasts 30 years. But these are Herefords.

For sheep I think you need a dog and a shepherd.

Back in the late 1970's, several of us got some of the mustangs that were being adopted out. Mine was a mare that was the best looking of the lot, and the only one that was never rode. She got out one day and went in a barbed wire fence and it cut her legs up something bad. She was meaner than Hell and would try and kick the chit out of you, so I was very cautious about handing her. I got to the barn and in a stall, tied a rag to the end of a stick, put grease on the rag and treated her cuts. Did that a few times, and she healed up completely in no time. Grease contains sulfur, and sulfur is an ingredient in drugs, so it works good on cuts.

Knew a woman that rented out goats for brush control.

She kept them contained using one strand of electric wire.

I asked what she did when a goat jumped the wire. She looked at me and said, "I shoot it"

All the goats she had never jumped the wire!