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Hrm, we had been planning to leave the goats with whatever horns they were born with. I'm not sure what Nubian horns look like though, or if naturally polled Nubians are common?

Oh, and since I didn't specify, they would be dairy goats (she likes Nubians), and to start with we'd probably go with 2, but the eventual plan would be 4 total goats (the 'plan' is to freshen one goat a year, alternating between the two 'active' goats, and then let them retire to be pasture...

About a year and a half ago we took the plunge and bought our own place -- a wee house on 3 acres with a barn. About 2 acres are pasture, with several paddocks and the barn. My wife has 3 horses (two desert-breed geldings and a warmblood mare), and we're thinking about adding goats to the mix...

Thanks, guys. I might be able to talk her into t-post line posts for the perimeter if I tried hard enough, but this is going to be her arena so she's pretty adamant about wooden posts. I'm hoping to do the job (or have it done) this spring, though if I do it myself it may end up leaking into...

Thanks, Latestarter. In this case we're building a sort of horse arena (3 sides of 150'x100' rectangle, with one of the sides already fenced) so HT is out. The fence we're butting up against is also 5' non-climb woven wire, but imho it was installed poorly (4x4 posts and it's not tensioned)...

Howdy, folks. I'm looking to build (or have built) some horse fencing, in particular my wife wants about 350 feet of 5' non-climb woven wire and round wooden posts. Our soil is very high in clay. Most of the local "professionals" dig and cement the posts in place, and they generally claim to...