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Cattle seldom hurt themselves on barbed wire, but a horse is a different matter. A cut from barbed wire is a blemish that will often ruin the sale of a horse. I have seen a horse get its foot caught in a barbed wire fence and nearly cut it off.
When I was a small boy I helped my father repair fence that was being used for a telephone wire. It was the top wire of a three wire fence, and insulators were used to prevent grounding, but it was never satisfactory, live stock could rub up against it and short the line, and tumble weeds and tall grass would short it and make a very poor telephone connection.
Barbed wire made a good fence for cattle and horses, but sheep would crawl under. The bottom wire would look like a long strand of wool string. The barbs pulled the wool from their backs as the sheep went under.
Deer and antelope were common in the area where I grew up. Deer would jump the wire without difficulty, while Antelope would follow the fence for miles to get around it. When the highways were put thru Western Nebraska and Wyoming, antelope were known to stand in a corner and starve, rather than crawl thru the wires.
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