the_andrew•2mo agoProlific Poster

Drove past a farm in Ohio last week that had a barbed wire fence so poorly strung it was sagging to the ground in three places

I was heading to a job near Dayton and saw this place off Route 35. The posts were leaning every which way and the wire was just draped like clothesline. A few cows were walking right through it like it wasn't even there. I had to pull over and take a picture because it was that bad. How do you let a fence get that neglected? Must have been 20 years old with no maintenance. Has anyone else run into farms like that where the owner just gives up on fence care?

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wyatt_green312mo ago

Maybe he was running a low-budget petting zoo and the cows just like having options on where to wander.

milestaylor1mo agoMost Upvoted

20 acres is a lot of land for a petting zoo, @wyatt_green31. I've seen petting zoos that fit in a parking lot. You'd need a small fortune just to feed that many cows if nobody's paying admission. That fence would be the least of your worries at that point.

lucaslee2mo ago

You're making a whole fence inspection report out of a couple saggy wires. Ngl, I've seen way worse on working farms where the cows don't even care about it and the owner is too busy with other stuff. A fence can be 50% ugly and still keep the herd where they need to be. Maybe the owner just ran out of fence staples and figured the cows weren't going anywhere anyway.