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Rheas & sheep

Posted: Thu May 13, 2010 7:38 pm
by The Hopefuls
We will shortly be taking delivery of 5 x baby rheas and regarding fencing all we can seem to find out is that sheep fencing is adiquate to contain them in the 2 acre feild they will be in , however not really being into sheep i have no idea how high sheep fancing is?
could someone please tell me how high rhea fencing / sheep fencing needs to be?

many thanks in advance Kev

Re: Rheas & sheep

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 6:22 am
by The Hopefuls
4 foot? :? i better replace all my 3 foot then before they grow :oops:

they will be pets yes :flower: , and ofcourse pictures , i will definatly put them on here when they come :lol:

thankyou

Re: Rheas & sheep

Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 3:37 pm
by sortanormalish
Hey Kev, we didn't have the money to properly fence much needed pasture one year. So we started with 3 foot welded wire and added a couple strands of barbed as the calves grew. We went back later and added two more strands to narrow the 12 inch wire spacing to 6 inch so that the fences would keep in goats.

These fences currently keep in goats, pastured geese, cattle and a sheep. I don't know how tall your fence posts are, but might that be an option for you?