Variations in Sheep Fencing!?

Icelandicseige

We are going to do a few acres here with sheep fencing and where wondering what's best/ preferred between
Electric and barbed?
And what's the best/ value for money sheep fencing?

J.O. Farmer

Put up good sheep mesh if you can it's about €120 for 100 metres. After that 3 or 4 row of electric will work. Your wasting your time with the barbed wire. I'd say you'd need 4 or 5 row and even then 1 or 2 could go. If 1 goes before long all will go.

rangler1

J.O. Farmer wrote: »

Put up good sheep mesh if you can it's about €120 for 100 metres. After that 3 or 4 row of electric will work. Your wasting your time with the barbed wire. I'd say you'd need 4 or 5 row and even then 1 or 2 could go. If 1 goes before long all will go.

Get the boundaries fenced first, a lot of the boundaries here were fenced with well pulled sheep wire hung on breasted ditches and half enough stakes at the start.....electric fence is a headache near ditches

Siamsa Sessions

rangler1 wrote: »

Get the boundaries fenced first, a lot of the boundaries here were fenced with well pulled sheep wire hung on breasted ditches and half enough stakes at the start.....electric fence is a headache near ditches

Agree 100%. Electric fencing is not really suitable for boundaries/ditches, but is great for dividing up fields to better manage grass. Probably best to go with electric netting (€100 for 50m roll) first to train them rather than 4 strands of electric wire.

When using normal sheep fencing (€100 for 100m) we put one strand of barbed wire 4-6 inches above it.

Icelandicseige

Siamsa Sessions wrote: »

Agree 100%. Electric fencing is not really suitable for boundaries/ditches, but is great for dividing up fields to better manage grass. Probably best to go with electric netting (€100 for 50m roll) first to train them rather than 4 strands of electric wire.

When using normal sheep fencing (€100 for 100m) we put one strand of barbed wire 4-6 inches above it.

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
Might be stupid question but would you not get trouble with them rubbing off the fence and eventually losening it.?

Siamsa Sessions

Icelandicseige wrote: »

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you.
Might be stupid question but would you not get trouble with them rubbing off the fence and eventually losening it.?

If the wire is pulled tight and you've enough stakes, then you shouldn't lose any tightness.

They shouldn't really be scratching or rubbing against it anyway - unless there's skin/parasite issues (dip them or use a pour-on type product to fix this, or look at this thread: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057630483

I came across this video before for how to tighten short runs of sheep wire yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHxCqc9zj9k