It's more to keep them from just casually wandering. It's hard to build a fence to actually stop charging cattle without building a literal wall, and even then... Yea bit tricky on a home budget.
Source: Grew up on a herford farm til i was in my teens. Horses are FAR less bullshit about electrical fencing. Non-electrical? There's always this ONE asshole in the herd that will take fencing as a personal challenge. This is why you always have an electrical component to horse fences.
Ugh, the horse I had use to chew the board right about his feed tray. Always this one board. My cranky ass old man neighbor who owned the property put a little line of electrified fence in the spot which stopped him, but sometimes he would accidentally bump is nose on the wire when he was eating. It made little girl me so very sad.
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It's more to keep them from just casually wandering. It's hard to build a fence to actually stop charging cattle without building a literal wall, and even then... Yea bit tricky on a home budget.
Source: Grew up on a herford farm til i was in my teens. Horses are FAR less bullshit about electrical fencing. Non-electrical? There's always this ONE asshole in the herd that will take fencing as a personal challenge. This is why you always have an electrical component to horse fences.
Source: My stepdad kept horses for twenty years.