confused on fencing

[Robyn8]

Good for you, I often forget the "before" pictures.

I can't say I've ever seen someone mow snow before. Talk about the cart before the horse!

I'm a very demanding wife! No time to wait for the snow to melt, lol!

 

[Latestarter]

Bruce beat me to comment on the snow mower What a great looking LGD! Glad that you got him! Nice looking farm as well.

 

[Robyn8]

Bruce beat me to comment on the snow mower What a great looking LGD! Glad that you got him! Nice looking farm as well.

Thanks! We love our Pyr! He's going to be so happy to have more to guard than just kids and chickens.

 

[goatboy1973]

Tha welded wire is very short lived. It's not worth the $$$. Woven wire 48" high with a hot wire at the top and a hot wire at about 8" from the ground. With mkt lambs you surely don't want to use any barbed wire. Good luck!

We use the 4x4 as it is cheaper than the 2x4 but really doesn't matter as far as durability. We use the Red Brand brand of fence and have for 30+ years.

 

[goatboy1973]

I use Premier 1 for my custom print ear tags and electric fence tester. Their prices are a bit high but fencing is nowhere to cut corners though so you get what you pay for.

 

[Robyn8]

I have another question for you smart folks. Instead of doing a people door and a goat door on the tiny barn we're building we're thinking of doing a split door to save some wall space for hanging hay and feeders outside. How high up would we need to make the cut for the animal door? Our "tiny barn" will be only 8x 12 so we can't use it for larger animals later on anyways. We're planning on using it for goats and sheep and of course the Pyr needs to be able to get in too (even though i seriously doubt he'll want to sleep out there...he's mostly a pet right now lol).

 

[AFewGoatsForMe]

Here’s the system we just switched to, only 1/4 done but working AMAZING so far. (I tested it myself a couple times )

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Curious what the spacing is between your strands?

We’re planning on adding another pasture this summer and was thinking about doing something like this. We had about 10 rolls of barbed wire given to us. We’d like to use it up but I would like to incorporate electric into it as well.

Are you using this for goats?

 

[greybeard]

Curious what the spacing is between your strands?

We’re planning on adding another pasture this summer and was thinking about doing something like this. We had about 10 rolls of barbed wire given to us. We’d like to use it up but I would like to incorporate electric into it as well.

Are you using this for goats?

I don't think I've ever seen post spacing that tight especially when using that many strands.

I've used electric strands between and above strands of barbed wire with no problems, (the barbed strands themselves were not 'hot') tho you are very likely to get lots of flack about doing so here.

 

[Latestarter]

Most here recommend against using barbed wire with goats, but if you mix electric strands along with, one hit and the goats shouldn't challenge the fence so the barbs shouldn't present an issue.

 

[Jennifer Hinkle]

I have hair sheep and barb wire does not hold them in, thats why we always use cattle panels or field wire. We have never had a problem with them getting out using this fencing. We have barb wire on part of our property and if we let them out in the yard to eat, then we have watch them and not let them by the barb wire or they will go through it. Just some friendly advice.