Baling Twine as a Fence
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Some people have scoffed when I said I used baling twine as a fence…
Well I took the fence down and rolled it up and let the horses into the forbidden zone this morning. Photo below of the rolled up “fence”.
It works because my stock is accustomed to a good HOT fence.
It was only about 70 or 80 feet of excluded area….but even the goats had not crossed the single strand “fence”
Below is what was fenced out and the horses were sampling the new found goodies. Even Perkins came out for the taste test but the horse flies sent him prancing back to the stable and Condi soon followed…Pete endured another five minutes or so and he went to the stable as well.
The donkeys sought out the sunflowers…Perkins like the Sun Hemp and cow pea leaves because they were easy to chew with his old teeth. Condi pulled on a Cow Pea vine and pulled about six feet of vine out of the millet. The vine startled her and she pranced around dragging the vine, until she decided to eat it. Pete concentrated on the pearl millet…
Saw this device at a clients horse farm this morning. It is a fly trap for biting flies. They were very happy with it and felt is had really reduced the horse fly population and caught many stable flies as well. There was a couple of inches of dead flies in it and several who were dying…
Perkins wants to borrow my credit card to order one…
Here is a shot of morning day two of access to the new stuff. It is interesting and unusual that they are staying in the short stuff and eating the new stuff from the top down,. The goats and cows however go into the middle and eat from the inside out. Yesterday afternoon the goats were hidden in this patch eating…I could hear their bells. When I grabbed the camera to snap this shot, Condi was standing in the short stuff grazing at head height, but when she saw me she took off for the stable for her breakfast. Yeah she and the others get a token handout morning and night when Perkins gets his sustenance.
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