AClark
Loving the herd life
Yikes! That looks like my ex husbands knee, he had had 3 knee surgeries on it. Definitely painful!
Looking for Advice and Experience
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Bruce
Herd Master
OK that would be hard to use with a strainer. No one sells real brace wire? Or is this stuff just cheaper? I guess you have no way to compare but I wonder how it "slides" around the post compared to single strand brace wire when being tightened. Barbs wouldn't slide at all once the barbs lodge into the post. Sounds like a lot of work for no good reason.
If you're twisting the wire, I shouldn't think the wire would need to slide around the post much at all... The tightening would be as a result of slack being taken up by the twist between the posts. The wire obviously does need to move with a strainer.
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CntryBoy777
Herd Master
Not sure about the price @Bruce , this was $60 for a spool of over 1300'. I think it will do fine with the conduit twist rods. May be out of commission for a couple of days tho, after the goat walk today I was inside the pen and the Boys were pushing on each other, and Comet inadvertently hit the back of my messed up knee. Didn't hit it very hard, but didn't have to...pain pill time....
Bruce
Herd Master
@CntryBoy777 is down for a nap! 
Sorry the goat got you no matter that it wasn't intentional.
@greybeard posted on your journal about a galvanized rod you can get for cheap, probably better than conduit for twisting.
Sorry the goat got you no matter that it wasn't intentional. @greybeard posted on your journal about a galvanized rod you can get for cheap, probably better than conduit for twisting.
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CntryBoy777
Herd Master
Yeh, but got the conduit this morning 8 sticks for $23...may look to replace them in the future, but they will do for now. Ya know how it is, when ya need something ya can't Find it and when ya don't ya see it everywhere. So, going to focus on getting it done...for now anyway. I do have another issue to ask advice with, but will be later tonite or tomorrow. First, I have to figure out how to ask it so that it makes sense.
Bruce
Herd Master
Or buy it now, figuring you are going to need it later and when later comes, can't find it!
greybeard
Herd Master
Do you know the name of the plants in that pic--the ones with the little pale blue flowers?
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CntryBoy777
Herd Master
We call them hen-bit here, but @Bruce said it was better known as ground ivy. It is prolific here, and even the commercial fields around here that get sprayed are full of it. It dies back after it blooms, so we just don't worry about it. The goats, chickens, and ducks don't even eat it. The bees, honey and bumble, sure do like it tho.
greybeard
Herd Master
Maybe, if it has pinkish flowers, it's henbit. Odd your chickens won't eat it. My sister's chickens eat every bit they can find.
If the flowers are more blue, it's another cold season plant called Creeping Charlie--it looks a lot like henbit.
http://www.ediblewildfood.com/creeping-charlie.aspx
http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/pests/weeds/hgic2321.html
I hate both of them--clog my lawnmower this time of year.
