Good designs for calf forward creep under electric fence

cacs

I want the the calfs to foward creep ahead of the cows this year. Last year was my first year with an electric fence paddock system. But the calfs were afraid to Go under the electric fence and I had some high spots left where the could creep. This year I want to make a mobile light weight creep gate where Ivan place at the gates and I am looking for designs. What do other people use.
Thanks

TITANIUM.

cathal irwin wrote: »

I want the the calfs to foward creep ahead of the cows this year. Last year was my first year with an electric fence paddock system. But the calfs were afraid to Go under the electric fence and I had some high spots left where the could creep. This year I want to make a mobile light weight creep gate where Ivan place at the gates and I am looking for designs. What do other people use.
Thanks

Not exactly what you're looking for but I kinda always have my transferable fence set up running up a hill or incline. I just put one pigtail further away from the bottom of the hill then normal and the next abit further up the hill leaving the fence higher than normal. They get used to it pretty quick.

cacs

TITANIUM. wrote: »

Not exactly what you're looking for but I kinda always have my transferable fence set up running up a hill or incline. I just put one pigtail further away from the bottom of the hill then normal and the next abit further up the hill leaving the fence higher than normal. They get used to it pretty quick.

Not a bad idea thanks

Buford T. Justice XIX

cathal irwin wrote: »

I want the the calfs to foward creep ahead of the cows this year. Last year was my first year with an electric fence paddock system. But the calfs were afraid to Go under the electric fence and I had some high spots left where the could creep. This year I want to make a mobile light weight creep gate where Ivan place at the gates and I am looking for designs. What do other people use.
Thanks

Something like the entrance to a calf creep feeder, 3 or 4 vertical bars with an adjustable bar across the length of the opening that can be adjusted upwards as calves get bigger.

Something like this?

TITANIUM.

cathal irwin wrote: »

Not a bad idea thanks

A buddy of mine uses a pigtail duck taped to a 2x1. Near the top of the 2x1 he has one of those small pigtails (The ones you see on lots of horsey farm running off timber fences) taped on again.so you end up with a longer post with 2 pigtails on it. You make 2 of these so the wire runs in and up the first post over and back down the second lad if I'm making sense. There as easy to carry and move as the Normal lad. He did add a spike to the 2x1 to strengthen it.

feartuath

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Something like the entrance to a calf creep feeder, 3 or 4 vertical bars with an adjustable bar across the length of the opening that can be adjusted upwards as calves get bigger.

Something like this?

I lost a weanling with one of these on the creep feeder gates a
few years back.
She fell and could not get up, she may have eaten a half bag of ration before that though.

I had sucess with lifting the electric frene at one point and laying ration on the ground to get the calves moving onto next paddock.

Pidae.m

Cheap & cheerful

Bass Reeves

You can get insulators that go on to 12 mm rebar. You can then cut the rebar to heights that suit you. Rebar can be hammered into ground. Put creep trough at other side of fence they will find there way in and out through it.

cacs

Bass Reeves wrote: »

You can get insulators that go on to 12 mm rebar. You can then cut the rebar to heights that suit you. Rebar can be hammered into ground. Put creep trough at other side of fence they will find there way in and out through it.

Thats a good idea