Help Protect Cattle and Wildlife

Winter conditions have arrived. If you haven’t already done so, take steps to protect your stored forage and silage from wildlife damage before additional snow and colder weather makes this more challenging. When deer and elk can access hay or silage bales, you lose valuable livestock feed and encourage the transmission of diseases such as chronic wasting disease and tuberculosis.

Protect your forage, cattle, and wildlife:

• Plan and construct wildlife exclusion barriers around bale storage areas; these can be temporary or (preferably) permanent.

Bring bales to permanent fenced stack yards as soon as possible and be sure to close the gate.

• For temporary protection, place a row of double stacked straw bales around the stored hay or silage.

• Use temporary electric fencing to protect bale stacks by inserting fiberglass posts horizontally into the bales to hold three, or preferably five, alternating hot and grounded wires; ensuring the top and bottom wires are hot.

Clean up any spilled hay, silage, or grain when found.

Preventing damage before it occurs will ensure your feed supply and help protect the health of both your livestock and wildlife.

For more information about damage prevention, please visit Agricultural Interactions at manitoba.ca/human-wildlife.

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