Electric fence is nice, especially when you can get around it with a mower or weedwhacker pretty easy. We’ve used it a time or two for our replacement heifers, and it worked well. Just harder to do on longer stretches of fence.
Sorry to hear you are having super hot and icky weather, too. Ours is supposed to hit in a couple days, but already it’s been yucky. Time to spend an afternoon with toes in the creek! Lol.
Yes, I had to put metal posts in corners and here and there on long runs.
They are promising rain again, last time I got a sprinkle. Supposed to be 80s for a few days behind this front and that would be nice!