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Hey everyone. Just got the hot wire hooked up this afternoon. It’s about a foot off the ground. I grabbed it a few times and it’s a shock, but not as strong as horse fencing, in my experience. One goat touched it and trotted off, no big reaction. She sniffed it and shocked herself shortly after...

Sounds like a plan. Thank you guys for your help and encouragement. I really appreciate it!!

Hey everyone! It’s been a few months and I thought I would update and ask for some more advice. The puppy is now 15 ish months. She settled down briefly and the barking subsided. I took Baymule’s advice and angrily marched to the pen and smacked the fence with a newspaper. It made a big...

I love the bag idea—I’ll have to look around the area for some rentals. We wouldn’t be able to burn it until November or December… but we would be able to burn it eventually. I haven’t had the gumption to get out there with a rake just yet.

They’ll nibble it here and there… but they definitely won’t eat acres of it, especially with so much other forage available. We’d need about a couple dozen more goats to effectively mow the pasture that way… but that’s more goats than I can handle. I talked to a guy to have his herd of mobile...

That was my plan for next year… to start my weed whacking / mowing marathon much earlier. But if you mow the foxtail grass, it still goes to seed just an inch long (in my experience). I would prefer not to use herbicide as we have animals… and a creek that runs through our pasture and into the...

I’m in el dorado county, near Auburn. It seems like the small patches of Clover push out the foxtails pretty well, and keep things low to the ground. The goats don’t eat the clover, though, but they don’t eat the foxtail either and there’s plenty of other forage for them. We have very little...

Hi Bruce. We don’t have a tractor, or even a mower. We moved in a few months ago and only have a weed whacker we inherited (for now). We are working on getting a no turn or an atv with brush hog or mower attachment… but our property is a steep hill, so we’re not sure how useful any of that would...

Ridgetop, thank you so much for the advice! She’s a great pyr. We have about 5 acres. The whole property is fenced and then the pasture is fenced within. All no climb, about 5 feet high, I’d say, minus the dog run which is 10 feet on one side (previous owner put it in—I’m not sure why so high...

Thank you so much! I will check out her thread!

That is so funny about the turtle! We don’t have turtles around here, so I imagine everyone would be really surprised if we found one. I or my partner go outside with a flashlight when she barks seriously. She has a very serious and deep alert bark. We don’t praise her, but we stand with her...

This is great advice, thank you! I will definitely try it. It has been high seventies here at night lately and I’ve been considering sleeping outside on the deck (where I can see her but she can’t see me) to correct her consistently (day job be damned lol). If she sees me, or if I hush her, she...

Thanks for your response! This definitely goes beyond an identifying sniff. She is eating the poop out of their bums as they as they drop it, and excitedly following them in circles waiting for more. A delicious snack for her, I am sure. She is not “aggressive” about it—meaning I don’t think...

Thanks Finnie! I am in Northern California. I will add it to my profile as well. 😊

Hi everyone! I have a few questions about raising an LGD. A little backstory: I started homesteading on a handful of acres last October. I knew I wanted goats to help with brush management—and an LGD to protect them. I did a ton of reading on just about every LGD resource I could find. I...