Backyard Goats-- Fencing?

[nightshade]

just like you would use it to break a dog then pretty much.. hmm I will have to give it a try

 

[Afrohippie]

I live in suburbia with 4 goats. We have 4' woven wire horse fence with a strand of electric tape on top. No one gets out. They would shred chicken wire with their little hoofies if you used that. Mine shredded a small section of welded wire that I used to enclose the compost pile, by climbing it to reach overhanging branches.

Gates are easy to build, even a girl can do it , I did! And I lined the gate with more horse fence and use chains and snaps to latch all the gates. No escapes. The only time I had goats escape from my fence, and fortunately into my own yard, was when I was sick with the flu and did not latch both latches on the gate after feeding. Cold winter night, and two goatie-girls were peeking in the living room window, saying, "Hey! We want to curl up on the couch in front of the fire and watch some tube with y'all!"

Can someone show me a picture of horse wire and maybe a link to some..?

 

[Latestarter]

http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/red-brand-woven-field-fence-39-in-h?cm_vc=-10005

Edit: Oops wrong stuff. This is woven wire, but NOT horse fence...

 

[babsbag]

@Latestarter...that is field fence. Horse fence is non-climb. 2x4 squares.

http://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/non-climb-horse-fence-48-in-x-100-ft?cm_vc=-10005

You want to make sure it is woven and not welded. You want 2x4 squares or 4x4 (sheep and goat fence) and you want it at least 48" tall. There are other brands too, I have used it from Lowe's, TSC, and our local store...all appears to be the same.

 

[kccjer]

We tried welded wire. One of my nigerians can break thru it in less than 5 minutes! We tried cattle panels and combination panels. The ND babies can crawl right thru those. Utility panels are 4 In square and work pretty good. We are using wooden pallets right now for a lot of our fencing....horses and goats. You can usually find pallets for free which makes it pretty cheap. We did have a boer buck with horns that rammed his way thru some of our pallets so that doesn't seem to work for bucks.

 

[goats&moregoats]

@kccjer glad to see I am not the only one putting pallets to use...I did a much larger area...took me just about all summer as I was 50 at the time and doing it myself. Works great for my goats including my horned wether who thinks he is tough. Use it for my two sheep as well. Hot wire top & bottom for my dogs.

 

[kccjer]

We have a larger area fenced in but that was the best pic I had of the fencing (that I could find anyway LOL) We fenced in a windbreak also. We just did straight line with a t post every 2 pallets. I was wondering if it would be stronger if we did it the way you did. At least pallets are free so that makes it pretty cheap fencing to use. And....best part....babies CANNOT crawl thru it!!! My son helped me and we had to hurry to get the bigger one put up because we had a Strangles scare with the horses and had a pg one....had to get her out and isolated.

 

[Bruce]

@kccjer glad to see I am not the only one putting pallets to use...I did a much larger area...took me just about all summer as I was 50 at the time and doing it myself. Works great for my goats including my horned wether who thinks he is tough. Use it for my two sheep as well.View attachment 14079 View attachment 14080 Hot wire top & bottom for my dogs.

I saw something similar in another forum, the topic was "other uses for pallets". Thought it was the coolest thing ever. Every other panel was perpendicular so the fence is self supporting. I wondered "aloud" about keeping the vegetation from taking over and having to weed whack a lot of linear feet in and out around the perpendicular ones. The answer was "they have sheep". PERFECT! But ... how does one keep the pallets from rotting out?

 

[kccjer]

It is so simple to pull the rotting pallet out and replace it.

 

[goats&moregoats]

I saw something similar in another forum, the topic was "other uses for pallets". Thought it was the coolest thing ever. Every other panel was perpendicular so the fence is self supporting. I wondered "aloud" about keeping the vegetation from taking over and having to weed whack a lot of linear feet in and out around the perpendicular ones. The answer was "they have sheep". PERFECT! But ... how does one keep the pallets from rotting out?

Rot will happen, however not as fast as one would think. I have a couple of sections that are going on the third year. However, as stated by @kccjer , they are easily removed and then replaced by yet another free pallet.