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Scratching Posts

  • 09-08-2016 7:49am
    #1
    nhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if any of you put scratching posts in fields for cattle - we have a few that seem to be scratching off of gates or fencing posts...


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  • #2
    MfMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,506 ✭✭✭MfMan


    Cemented down a few concrete stakes once - they were broken in less than a year. Try a big angular rock if you have one maybe.


  • #3
    ABlur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭ABlur


    I'm going to get the digger man to sink a few half ESB poles in fields that don't have any trees/poles on already. I find that cattle start digging up holes in these fields at the moment. Like hens and dust baths!


  • #4
    jd06
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭jd06


    nhg wrote: »
    Just wondering if any of you put scratching posts in fields for cattle - we have a few that seem to be scratching off of gates or fencing posts...

    I see my cattle the same they are always digging holes
    Why I wonder?


  • #5
    Aly Daly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 69 ✭✭Aly Daly


    I leave a feeding trough in the field with them as it is a paddock system with no other way of scratching,they will rub off another beast also,I would like to have scratching post but no point as there is always a wire behind them,good if they brought out a mobile scratching brush to avoid field damage.



  • #6
    PoorFarmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭PoorFarmer


    I try to have a large diameter concrete pipe in any field without an ESB pole. Best scratching post you'll find



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