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Over the past couple of years I have been wanting to fence in a few acres for goats, sheep and maybe a couple of cattle. The fence is just going to be barbed wire. Sections of telephone poles for corner post. I decided to start the project. I picked one corner where the fence is going and...

Going to start setting T-Posts in the next few days. Set gate posts last weekend.. Going to need to start rolling out fence wire soon. I got 6ft posts, with the thought process of 18" or so in the ground, 48" fencing, and a string of either barbed wire or hot wire at the top at some point...

Took down an old fence row here on the farm. Not very long, maybe 150 yards or so. Got a little love tap from a piece of barbed wire and no snakes. Was a good day.

Which is better for fence post in wet soil, cement the post in or creosote? In a previous thread we talked about using an auger to drill holes for corner post. Well, in the past week or so we have gotten about 5 inches of rain. Within minutes of drilling the holes water started soaking in...

What is the best way to brace the corner post for livestock? Yesterday evening I was digging a hole for a corner post to the new chicken yard. My cousin walked over and suggested I angle a 4 inch fence post down at an angle for bracing. I was planning on using non-barbed wire, go from the...

Anyone here use old telephone / power poles for corner post? In the next couple of weeks I plan on moving forward with the new chicken yard. I am thinking about using old telephone / power poles for the corner post. The local electric company sells their old poles. I have a phone call in to...

The current chicken yard is too small. It gets the job done, but there is no room to plant fig trees or blueberry bushes. Before my wife and I moved to the farm, with the help of friends and family I we got a 75 feet long by 35 feet wide chicken yard. With 2,625 square feet 100 chickens could...