I can vouch for cattle being shockers with the fences...I often have a jersey in my front garden munching my lavender...
My friends up the road got a "hobbyfarm" she's an optometrist - they run 80 head of cattle so not much but her DH has a 7 day a week job on his hands. The noxious weeds, the feed, the maintenance of the animals and fencing. It's a big job. They have nuts too...
I would definitely rethink the big block if it's not going to be a full time job for one of you...
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LOL Maya. 10-15 years ago it would have been an awesome idea and a lot of small-acreage farmers did quite well out of it, but there is so much new legislation now and laws that have to be adhered too that it isn't as simple as it used to be and that is without the full time job of maintaining them. Plus there is also the animal husbandry as well - you need to make sure that they are vacinated and drenched for worms and liverfluke etc and if you choose to do it organically you need to be able to have enough spare paddocks to rotate them to stop worm infestion and reinfestation and 100 acres is too small for that.
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