Any way to keep this guy in?

[TheMixedBag]

He first jumped out the beginning of October, and after that ordeal, he didn't do it again until last week, and now my buck's been jumping out every single day, as often as he gets a chance to.

I've been tying him to the porch in the front and keeping him there all day, but he'll still jump out the next morning....

Now admittedly, I don't have the best fence in the world. Some of it's chain link with welded wire running the top of it where it's only 4ft, some of it's cattle paneling that he's tried jumping before and gave up when he gave himself a nasty bruise on his nose, and some of it's barbed wire (not my fence-I'm "sharing" the neighbor's previously existing fence, that was designed for cattle and fixed about 10 years ago) with welded wire and chain link in front of it.

The spot we believe he's getting out at is a 5ft piece of welded wire with the large square bits instead of the smaller 2x3 holes we've been using. The question is, would putting the smaller welded wire on top of it work, or would it be better to put it in front of it, to block the larger squares? Is there something else that would work better?

 

[freemotion]

Electric! My buck pen is four feet of woven wire with a couple of strand of electric on top and one at his shoulder height inside the fence. On the side where he can see the does, there are three strands of electric at the top, making it clost to 7 feet high. I used lengths of pvc to raise the height of the t-posts, drilling holes in the pvc pipe and threading the wire through that.

When I was first looking for a buck, I met one that jumped out of his four foot fence during his first rut and snapped his leg. The owner paid the $500+ vet bill and put up a solid six foot fence. I didn't want to be faced with that decision, hence the fortress!

 

[elevan]

We have a wether who thinks he's a dog and "just has" to be with the people. He kept jumping the 5 foot fence that separates the field from the kids play yard. So, we ran a 3 foot high section of fence above that. So now with 8 feet of fence between him and his people he just runs back and forth "yelling" at us!

He's a big guloot and we're trying to train him to be a goat.

But for now the 8 foot fence has worked. And just so you know, he's probably the tallest goat I've ever seen.

 

[glenolam]

I 2nd the electric. Run 2 strands inside the entire fence, one about 6" off the ground and the other 4' and he'll get zapped any way he tries.

 

[mlw987m]

Can I ask, what happens in the winter with the electric fence?

 

[cmjust0]

The animal will be slightly colder when it gets shocked.

 

[cmjust0]

FWIW, I 3rd the idea of additional electric. What I'd consider doing is sorta what they do around here to keep thoroughbreds from jumping paddock fences...they double-fence.

There's probably 6'-8' or so between two rows of fence... The horse instinctively knows that it can't clear both, and there isn't enough landing room between, so it's hosed...and it doesn't jump the fence.

What you could do is run a few strands of electric fence inside your existing fence so the buck won't be able to get close enough to the outside fence to jump it, but won't really be able to jump into the space *between* fences....and even if he does get in between, he won't have enough room to manage a jump over the outside fence.

I think it's probably worth a shot.

 

[glenolam]

The animal will be slightly colder when it gets shocked.

Yet so true......

 

[freemotion]

You can set up your fence so that you can detach the lower strand if it is under the snow, grounding the entire fence. The goats aren't so interested in going through snow that deep anyways.

 

[Ariel301]

I use 6-foot chain link dog kennels to house my bucks. I had one that did get over that though, he had a dog house in there to play with, and he jumped on top of it, then over the fence and into a pen of does. That had to be a hard landing lol, he had to go up about three feet, and then a 6 foot fall! Other than that one incident, I have no escapes (other than through an incorrectly latched gate).