Baymule
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We used hot wire in Lindale to keep Paris from digging out, climbing and jumping the fence. We used the wire run through a piece of water hose in a couple of places. It worked just fine.
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canesisters
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Counting down to next heat cycle - somewhere between 19th & 25th.
I wasn't exactly sure when the last one was, just a vague guess. I'll get this one on the calendar & then call the AI folks.
I'm assuming that if she IS pining for company - sending her to a friend's herd for a month to meet their bull would only make things worse?
Fence news, I'm checking it every few days & both the paddock & pasture are maxing out the checker with a strong flash at the 7000 reading.
I did manage to run separate lead-out lines so the paddock & pasture are totally separate from each other but running off the same charger.
This looks like a hot mess... but what I did was take a piece of heavy gage wire & make a zig-zag. Then I can easily drop a hook from each lead-out onto it - or take each one off easily without having to unplug the whole system.
I wasn't exactly sure when the last one was, just a vague guess. I'll get this one on the calendar & then call the AI folks.
I'm assuming that if she IS pining for company - sending her to a friend's herd for a month to meet their bull would only make things worse?
Fence news, I'm checking it every few days & both the paddock & pasture are maxing out the checker with a strong flash at the 7000 reading.
I did manage to run separate lead-out lines so the paddock & pasture are totally separate from each other but running off the same charger.
This looks like a hot mess... but what I did was take a piece of heavy gage wire & make a zig-zag. Then I can easily drop a hook from each lead-out onto it - or take each one off easily without having to unplug the whole system.
Mini Horses
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If it works, don't "fix" it!! 
That's a good option
That's a good option
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I like the way you accommodated each line... ingenuity... if it gives you a full charge on each side... who cares... Like @Mini Horses said, if it works......Good idea actually....
Her "pining for company" is as much related to her hormones as anything... sending her to get bred will not make it worse if she gets settled (pregnant)... send her 2-3 days before anticipated heat...leave her a month... that gives her 2 possible heats with the bull, in case he doesn't catch her on the first one.... lots of "family cows" live solitary lives for a good part of their time... it is the "hormones" that sends them looking... they don't want "company" as much as they need to have their "itched, scratched"....
Her "pining for company" is as much related to her hormones as anything... sending her to get bred will not make it worse if she gets settled (pregnant)... send her 2-3 days before anticipated heat...leave her a month... that gives her 2 possible heats with the bull, in case he doesn't catch her on the first one.... lots of "family cows" live solitary lives for a good part of their time... it is the "hormones" that sends them looking... they don't want "company" as much as they need to have their "itched, scratched"....
Baymule
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I had a cow bust out, go 3 miles dow the road to a neighbors yard. She was trying to get in his field so he opened the gate. He figured someone would come along looking for her and it would keep her off the road. His bull bred her. To take her back home, my daughter and I sat on a truck tailgate with a bucket of cubes. Neighbor turned her out in his yard and we shook the bucket. She happily trotted behind the truck with us giving her cubes. We met oncoming traffic, it was a rural country road. Our friend driving the truck said all he saw was teeth, from people laughing. 
