I told you I hate cows right? Some pics.....

[Howard]

Hey Smart, I stopped reading when things got crazy but you have a problem now. The cows know it is there and have got a taste. The area will have to be larger or they will continue to lean over sharp points or not. The area is just too small. I would agree with DMO on most occassions and on a larger area but these cow got the taste and now they will not stop leaning in on the panels, points or not. It is like making a food plot all the way to the edge....once they get a taste they are going in, no matter what you have there. I love my cows, but I also love deer so you have to find the happy middle

I would honestly think you will have better odds of a mature deer entering with a large area. I would be leary of a mature deer jumping in a small area. So not only would you keep the cows out, you would get more deer to come in I would imagine.

No matter what most here so, cows will not clean up corn on the ground. They will get what is piled or on top of grass but there will always be plenty for deer. I never fenced my big feeder in Cotulla with hundreds of cows around it and I dont have it fenced at the farm. Problem is most feeder cant handle a cow rubbing or pushing around on it and they get messed up.

Good luck and I wont tell you they are upside down

[headshot]

I'm CAD... I design.... If we take into consideration the throw diameter of the corn from the feeder, accounting for wind velocity and lunar gravitational pull on Wednesdays, the mass of cows, their verticle thrust capabilities on chilly mornings, again taking into account any lunar gravitational fluctuations, deduce the apex of the leaping cow arc, formulate a functional factionality of feverish bovine hunger pains, and I can see that you'll need a pen made up of 1/8" thick rebar panels 80' wide and 20' tall with steel drill pipe driven 10' in the ground every 2' and having three tensioning wires per pole with no less than 2000 ft/lb of torque on each strand. And be sure and spike the tops. Oh, and go ahead and put the little holes on the top, the cows won't care. Tell me that won't keep them **** cows out.

[ttumedic]

2 of the first 3 weeks of this season I have come up to a knocked over feeder. A t-post, rebar, and wire fence is now up. The night after I put the fence up a cow came in and walked through the fence. I got out of my stand which scared the living crap out of the cow causing it to jump over the little wire fence which is about 3 feet high. Then I threw a stick at the cow which hit it square in the arse. I have never seen a cow run so fast. I hope now they think the feeder is possessed and won't come back. Needless to say the fence was reinforced and I'll see if it is still standing when I get there tomorrow. Hopefully the 8 point I've been watching will be there too.

[cj7zrcool]

I told yall raise the panels up 2 feet and then they wont reach over and cant go under...

Cut the top horizontal piece of wire off by cutting all the vertical pieces off right under the top strand. And hold the cutters at a severe angle so that the tops are sharp.

I've used a combination of these techniques in the past with good results. I'd take a 52" cattle panel, cut it in half horizontally, raise it approx 14" off the ground with the raw ends pointing up. The fawns and turkeys can crawl under and any other deer can jump over if they prefer. The cows lean over, get gently stuck and say, "that hurts a bit, I don't think I'll do it anymore". I have only had to remove one impaled bovine in the past, and that was a 1600# Hereford-cross bull that was very stubborn. The land owner completely understood and agreed that the bull had been given every opportunity to dine on corn elsewhere. We just drug it off and hung it from a tree for a leopard attractant. Would have gotten him too, but he decided he'd rather eat corn, jumped the pen a little short and....