> Also wondering what you do with areas that flood. Do you put in 2 fences,
one that is the perimeter when not flooded, and one that is the perimeter
> when it is flooded, and graze between when possible, and turn off power to
the outer when it's under water?
> Someone suggested fencing with Premier's maxi-shock, and just know that it
will be taken away by floods. I wondered about using maxi-shock and trying
> to reel it in before we expect most floods, knowing that sometimes we'll
miss.
What seems to be working better here is fencing staight across the top of
the stream bed with the permanent fence and then using a poly wire and light
posts to fence down into and across the stream, when it floods I only lose
the poly wire, not the permanent fence. I don't worry much about power to
the fence during floods, there is a switch available to turn off power to
those lines if need be, and flood water generally do not last very long in
hill country. If you have a larger flood plain, you might make the lower
wires either poly wire, or maybe aluminum, something that will break easily
when the force of the water and the debris impacts your fence.
Gene Schriefer
Shepherd
Dodgeville, Wisconsin USA
Commercial Texel-x and Charollais-x Sheep
