Great aerial photo of your barn. I didn't realize that the pond was so close to it.
After two years of working on fencing in a 27 acre pasture, I think I'm going to be done this weekend. A couple extra days off is all I need!!! I've already turned off the electric fence. I really hate that stuff. Hopefully it works better for you then it did for me.
The first couple of years, it worked perfectly. Then for some unknown reason, a few of my goats just walked through it. I found areas that looked like they where big enough for them to get through, so I made those areas smaller with more wire. This went on for a couple of years. Me chasing after the goats, adding wire, and searching for places that they found to escape from. Then more of them started following the few that where already doing it. It's to the point right now that they just break through the wire to get out. And all of them walk right through the hot wire like it's nothing.
I touched it and I thought the back of my brain was going to explode out of my skull!!! It's 2 joules, with three ground rods that are ten feet apart. They should not be able to touch that fence, but they just ignore it.
The other issue is with the kids. After they are about three days old, they are strong enough to become little monsters. They form into a group, and do their thing exploring, playing, and causing trouble. For me, keeping them out of the chicken area has been a losing battle. Part of my fence around there is really good. Part of it is temporary, that I keep adding junk to it to stop the baby goats from getting through it. I even have a pile of broken up concrete that I use to block their little openings when I find them. They can squeeze through the smallest openings!!!!! The only thing that works along the ground is concrete.
