Keeping goats penned

[Aped]

I have yet to put up fence bit I see most people seem to have welded wire rather than the woven wire that I read was pretty much mandatory. So i guess welded wire is just fine as long as it is tight?

 

[cmjust0]

I have yet to put up fence bit I see most people seem to have welded wire rather than the woven wire that I read was pretty much mandatory. So i guess welded wire is just fine as long as it is tight?

If you've got perfectly flat, level ground with no humps, hills, high spots, draws, ditches, or valleys, it'll be fine. If your ground is like mine...rolling and dynamic...you'll want to shoot whoever invented welded-wire fence.

To illustrate, here's a little experiment for ya.. Take a sheet of printer paper and try to 'fence' it over the mouse on your desk.. See how it torques, bends, and bows around? That's what happens when you try to run welded wire over a hump in the ground...not fun. Welded wire flexes vertically, specifically to follow the contour of the ground.

But, again...I even hate woven wire now that I've run so much hi-tensile.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

dont waste your time or money with anything but electric. we use the woven wire mostly as a visual but we spent a lot of time having the dogs bring back the goats.... so we just went all electric and have not regretted it.

 

[kstaven]

Woven wire and a single hot wire 8 inches off the ground did the trick for us. After a month we never powered the wire up again. When we get a new goat in we will fire up the fencer until they learn.

 

[Buster]

Very helpful suggestions so far. Please keep them coming.

I'm wondering if anyone has considered combining the electric netting with single strands of hot wire, the wire on the inside for the goats (mostly to keep them out of the netting) surrounded by netting to keep out predators.

Is this something that might work?

 

[cmjust0]

For predator control, I prefer strands of hot on the outside and a big dog on the inside.

 

[username taken]

until the big dog on the inside remembers he is a predator

yes, the hot wire inside the netting would work, thats a darn good idea actually

 

[kstaven]

until the big dog on the inside remembers he is a predator

yes, the hot wire inside the netting would work, thats a darn good idea actually

That is why a person TRAINS a dog very well from the time it is a pup. I have four dogs that run with my goats and cattle.

 

[lilhill]

until the big dog on the inside remembers he is a predator

yes, the hot wire inside the netting would work, thats a darn good idea actually

That is why a person TRAINS a dog very well from the time it is a pup. I have four dogs that run with my goats and cattle.

I, too, have a GP in with my goats. But, don't throw a dog in with the goats and expect them to train themselves. Usually ends in disaster for the goats.

I use hot wire on the inside of my buck pens to keep them off the fences; however, never on the inside where babies are. My neighbor found one of his kids had managed to get between the fence and the hotwire and electrocuted itself. Sad and so preventable.

 

[()relics]

until the big dog on the inside remembers he is a predator

yes, the hot wire inside the netting would work, thats a darn good idea actually

That is why a person TRAINS a dog very well from the time it is a pup. I have four dogs that run with my goats and cattle.

...a donkey eats grass...No training necessary....