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We have been working on a permanent fe ce to replace the temp fence we have been using. I have pregnant goats that will be kidding in the next couple weeks so I am focused on getting ready for that. Hoping to have most of that squared away this weekend.
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What are you using for the permanent fence? I've been working on mine for the last two years, and I'm finally getting close to finishing it off. If it would stop raining!!! 27 acre pasture with 5,000 feet of fence, plus or minus a little bit. I'll do the rest of the land later on, after I get caught up on some other projects.
Part of my fence is a handling facility. I need to be able to run them through a chute and separate them, and hold them. It sounds easy, but it's all new to me, so it's more complicated then it should be. Overthinking is killing me!!
Part of my fence is a handling facility. I need to be able to run them through a chute and separate them, and hold them. It sounds easy, but it's all new to me, so it's more complicated then it should be. Overthinking is killing me!!
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I thought I had answered your question. We are doing a high tensile stranded electric fence. Your fence is beautiful, by the way. So is the pasture.
It took me 5 weekends just to put new fence up around d the barn lot. I had hoped to be faster to get everything ready for the kids that were coming g. Last weekend it began, so we had 7 kids over the course of the week. Very exciti g but also exhausting. The fence tur ed out pretty good. At first we were only goi g to do 6 strands but one of our nine month old Does is in heat and jumped the 6 strands and went over to the buck’s pen. After parading around them, one the bucks jumped the 4 foot field fence. We will have another set of kids in April. I wasn’t planning to breed her till June…nature has it’s own plans.
It took me 5 weekends just to put new fence up around d the barn lot. I had hoped to be faster to get everything ready for the kids that were coming g. Last weekend it began, so we had 7 kids over the course of the week. Very exciti g but also exhausting. The fence tur ed out pretty good. At first we were only goi g to do 6 strands but one of our nine month old Does is in heat and jumped the 6 strands and went over to the buck’s pen. After parading around them, one the bucks jumped the 4 foot field fence. We will have another set of kids in April. I wasn’t planning to breed her till June…nature has it’s own plans.
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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.
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.
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A few more pictures of the fence. There are Extra gates to add on a sorting area out front. Much like Eddie’s two years of fencing, I have a bunch of fence to build in the next year or so
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