barbed wire for cows!!

Icelandicseige

What are people's opinion on barbed wire versus electric for Cows.

Mooooo

Electric all the way, had a cow reach down over barbed here to get to grass outside of a pen by the shed. If she decided to keep going could have torn the udder.

GrasstoMilk

Only place for barbed wire is on top of a bounds ditch. Electric everywhere. Horrid stuff to see near stock

Grueller

Suckler here and use electric on the home Farm. On the out farm it is a pest to maintain electric so I always use two strands of barbed and have strengthened weak spots in the ditch by planting whitethorn. If they can't see a way out they won't want to go out.

visatorro

Never seen barb doing any harm unless cattle were ran up against it. Electric dividing paddocks at home Farm. Everywhere else barb except for a few dividing wires.

Timmaay

It just takes just one damaged teat on a cow, and weeks of being kicked black and blue in the parlour while it heals up to convince you barb wire has utterly no place in a dairyfarm ha.

Lady Haywire

We use barbed & electric, one strand for electric, double at 1.5 and 3.5/4 ft for barbed Never had any injuries from the barbed so far, as mentioned above if they can see it and if it's put up right, they shouldn't chance it.

Hard to beat a decent hedge though, our cattle have never been stripgrazed so wires in any form are permanent/shocking in their eyes.

kollegeknight

Lady Haywire wrote: »

We use barbed & electric, one strand for electric, double at 1.5 and 3.5/4 ft for barbed Never had any injuries from the barbed so far, as mentioned above if they can see it and if it's put up right, they shouldn't chance it.

Hard to beat a decent hedge though, our cattle have never been stripgrazed so wires in any form are permanent/shocking in their eyes.

Exactly the same set up here

Mooooo

Lady Haywire wrote: »

We use barbed & electric, one strand for electric, double at 1.5 and 3.5/4 ft for barbed Never had any injuries from the barbed so far, as mentioned above if they can see it and if it's put up right, they shouldn't chance it.

Hard to beat a decent hedge though, our cattle have never been stripgrazed so wires in any form are permanent/shocking in their eyes.

I've a few heifers here that would rattle any hedge, out of sheer inquisitiveness the wagons

Lady Haywire

Mooooo wrote: »

I've a few heifers here that would rattle any hedge, out of sheer inquisitiveness the wagons

Left a bull and a heifer alone last winter, no luvvie-duvvies, just had to feed & train him for a sale. They picked every hedge clean of ivy and walked through most of the other dry ditches. Reckon that's why we now have Mooch cow going through every other day.