What is the best, and cheapest way to keep cows off my feeders?

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Hog panel and tposts. Bigger the better. Round one using 8-9 panels.

I'm weird, I use 12 panels making a 48x48 foot square. The observations I have had anything on the outside will follow one side and trail off at the corner. The round pens I have they will follow the contour around and around the pen. When I say "they" I mean cows and hogs. My thought behind it is I want the unwanted animals away from the pen as quick as possible. Going on 4 years now and I have not had a cow or a pig one in my feeder pen. The square does not seem to effect the deer movement in or out one way or the other compared to a circle.

Cattle panels work good in *most* cases - see pic below. I knew cows were in my pens but couldn't figure out how until I got this pic one day.

A strand of Barb wire across the top of that fence will fix that quick. That is what I did on my PF pen.

A bullet. .22 would be the cheapest.

That's an F1 cow. That's the problem. I've seen one of those clear a 6' fence flat footed.

Yeah but that bullet would not be looked on favorably by the land owner. Cost you the lease and $$

heh, yeah, the landowner would have big issues with that! I did end up putting two strands of barbed wire to stop that nonsense.

My land owner will not allow us to put barb wire on our pens.....even though its on all of the fences. I still can't figure that one out.

The cows been getting in my pen to but they don't seem to be eatting the corn very much just in there walking around

They're probably attracted to the corn but theres not a big enough pile for them to really eat from.

Really. It was my landowners idea to put the barb wire on my pen. He understands the $$ I am laying out for protein.

I guess he sees it free feed. He will cut any barbed wire he finds on the feed pens. He has given many other suggestions.

Just to clarify, I was joking about the bullet.

Its usually pretty hard to break a cow of anything once they figure things out. She'll keep jumping until she thinks its too high.

If they aren't eating much and you have your feeder anchored well, why not remove the pen? Its pretty hard for cows to eat straight corn, their not designed too well for that. But if you have goats or sheep that won't work.

My thing is I want to put in free choice feeders with protein and I need to protect them.

Target,the rancher probably is afraid his cows will still jump into the pen and cut their teats or udder on the barb wire

I figured either that or just get hung up in general.

Go electric fence. One zap and they wont touch that pen.

I saw those razor strips you can put on the feeder legs, anyone have any luck with those? We have a cow problem, too.

Those are designed more for coons than anything.

high feeders. The cows on our lease can easily move beneath both feeders in this picture.