Goat proofing barbed wire fence

[goatboy1973]

well goats may not eat "everything in sight", but I have experienced goats eating horse tails before. My friend's pygmy goats nibbled their pony's tail quite a bit. Now offer the goats any healthy food, like produce or lettuce, and they turn up their noses. LOL

LOL!!! I would love to see this.

 

[goatboy1973]

Annabelle333, we have about 30+ head of Commercial meat goats which hardly ever challenge a fence. We recently purchased a small herd of Spanish goats from a 2000+acre ranch in Texas. These goats can leap about 4 feet in the air so when we talked to the breeder, it was evident that these goats only had human contact 2x's a year for hoof trimming and deworming/ vaccination. These goats are literally like deer in every respect. Prior to getting these goats, we decided to add a strand of electric wire at the very top of our fence to discourage/ prevent the goats from leaping over the fence. We also recently traded some of our commercial goats for 2 guardian llamas. The top strand of newly installed electric now discourages the llamas from leaning over the fence. So there is a method to the madness. LOL Good luck and congrats on your new place.