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Originally posted by Shoech View PostWe are having the same issue at our place. We are going to build a 3 strand barbed wire fence about 15' outside the existing hog panel pens and see if this helps.
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Maybe cut the top square off of the cattle panels, making them about 4 inches shorter but leaving spikes on top. That should stop the cows from leaning on them, and make the deer jump high enough to clear the spikes without catching their back feet under the top wire.
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Originally posted by Dale Moser View PostMaybe cut the top square off of the cattle panels, making them about 4 inches shorter but leaving spikes on top. That should stop the cows from leaning on them, and make the deer jump high enough to clear the spikes without catching their back feet under the top wire.
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Originally posted by DKW II View PostHaving the same issue, let me know if you find something that works because I’m tired of fixing pens and wasting cotton seed on cows.
20' x 50" cattle panels
drill and set 4x4 post at each corner. (round pen will not work at this location)
drill and set 4x4 post where panels over lap
drive T post every 36"
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If you have anything like cotton seed or protein in the pen, cows will get in at times of low natural feed availability no matter what. I had to stop feeding protein on our home place around 8 years ago due to my father's cows. We bought 48" tall tube panels costing $80 a piece back then for all of our pens to try to keep them out. All they did was attempt to jump, bending the panels in the process, and still got in when they wanted. Sucks but it is what it is I guess.
Before that I had built barbed wire pens, but the hogs simply slept under the protein feeder every night, then got up and shook all of the feed out until it was empty.Last edited by 44mAG; 03-12-2021, 07:45 AM.
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Originally posted by 44mAG View PostIf you have anything like cotton seed or protein in the pen, cows will get in at times of low natural feed availability no matter what. I had to stop feeding protein on our home place around 8 years ago due to my father's cows. We bought 48" tall tube panels costing $80 a piece back then for all of our pens to try to keep them out. All they did was attempt to jump, bending the panels in the process, and still got in when they wanted. Sucks but it is what it is I guess.
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Originally posted by BrokenJ View PostBuild a 5 stand barb wire fence even larger than your panel fence deer will have to go under that then over the panels. but those cattle sounds like a pita
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We fought this battle for years. Pipe H brace corners, hog panels, and two strands of barbed wire on top, as tight as a fiddle string. Cows jumped it without clicking a hoof. Had a couple of the guys on the ranch use cattle panel and in a couple of spots they would just cut out the upper section. Deer used that spot to jump in and it wasn't really wide enough for cattle to use. Thankfully, all cattle are off of our ranch right now and we are praying the next batch don't like to jump.
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Originally posted by BIG D View PostHad a couple of the guys on the ranch use cattle panel and in a couple of spots they would just cut out the upper section. Deer used that spot to jump in and it wasn't really wide enough for cattle to use. Thankfully, all cattle are off of our ranch right now and we are praying the next batch don't like to jump.
What is crazy is these two problem pens have been in place for 10 years. Never a cow problem until 2020 season. All it took was one cow to jump in the pen. She educated the rest of them and now its a dang free for all.
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