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I agree I worded it wrong, I meant shocked repetedly for a long period as in, entangled in the fence. I copied and pasted the quote from the linked page. Visit the link for the full safety document. You may need to copy and paste the web address, the link won't work for me...

I have heard that too, but how then does the fence induce a quick and strong muscle contraction ? For it to induce a muscle contraction, surely it must go deeper than the skin. If your skin is wet yes, electricity will always follow the path of least resistance. Again I am no expert thats for...

I have no proof of any possibility of neurological damage, but I have drawn a simple picture to show what I mean. A goat will usually investigate things with thier nose, hence the current would go from nose to hooves, where as if a child was to be shocked on the head, the child would most...

The problem with small children and electric fence's, is that a sall child has a high likelyhood of touching the fence with it's head which would put a shock through the childs brain maybe, probably not likely too kill with a single shock but the chance is there for some kind of neurological...

Ahah ! I think your on to something here my goats had 20 litre drums for water and they hardly drank any and I kept them full so I was always wasting a lot of water cleaning them out. So I cut the top off them to make them about 10 litre drums and I find they drink more much more. Now I have a...

Yes I give mine doses of pine needles, have for a while now and I think it has a preventative effect against some worms. I think tuperntine is made frome pine tree's and it is the chemical or compound or whatever that is used to make the turps that has the deworming effect, freechoice pine...

I watched my doe quite closely for about 3 1/2 weeks before she finally gave birth"because I got the date wrong", and her udder kinda looked like that with a couple of weeks to go, last couple of days the teats filled out to a kinda tight cone shape. Oh yeah it was the restlessnes and pawing...

Mine gave birth about 2.30 pm this time, last time her first time was about 9.30 am. Good idea for a survey the results will be interesting and usefull too.

Thanks, :D I got the breeding date wrong and have been expecting it for the last two weeks :rolleyes: now I can rest, I forgot to mention I am in Australia so it's spring here. Can't wait for the bouncing and spinning kid play now Yippee.

Just found this site today while I was at backyard chickens looking for info on kidding, this site is cool too, anyway my doe Millie had two girl kids today, I was a bit worried because she had a difficult birth first time, it was a single buck kid big too, I had to help her then. But today she...