Security signs for fences/gates.

[dianneS]

I think in addition to the signs I'm going to put a "back-up" chain latch on every gate. I have one on a main gate that I use a lot. I put it there so I could just drop the chain hook into the loop and the gate would be secure without me having to take the time to latch the "real" gate latch... when I'm running in and out a lot.

I have that type that they sell at TSC, its got a chain with a hook on the end and a safety mechanism that secures it so that it can't be lifted out of the loop so easily. The loop just looks like a big fat staple. It works really well.

I figure if I have a simple, easy to figure out chain on all of the gates, then just in case someone does enter a paddock again, they can certainly figure out how to securely affix that chain, at the very least! I really hope so anyway, but some people never cease to amaze me!

I am going to go with a stern "Keep out" type of sign and I like that liability disclaimer idea Freemotion!

 

[savingdogs]

You could also print out some home-made signs and laminate them. Then you can nail/tape/glue/whatever the signs to the fence posts or on a stake.

"Do you like your hand? Great! Then don't pet the animals!"
"Warning - these goats love to jump on people and cars!"

I bet you could even go back to that "Goat Trauma Org" website and print off some of their 'awesome' signs!

Agreed! And how about a sign that reads something like "If you are able to read this sign you are expected to shut this gate." Or "Gate must remained closed at all times. This means you."

 

[mully]

Funny thing about signs ...some people think "oh that does not mean me" chains and locks work...a pain but they work.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

Earlier this year one of my does was going into labor so I was hanging around the barn and doing chores. My husband and MIL were also doing yard work, but a bit further from the barn. The neighbor (a not-so-close relative) was having a family BBQ and apparently she thought it might be a nice opportunity for her grandchild to have an unsupervised visit to the local "petting zoo" and sent him on over. The child walks into the yard, directly past my husband and MIL without uttering a hello, straight towards the goat pen like he's done it 100 times. When my husband recovered enough from his complete and total confusion, I hear him say "um, hello?" The kid says, "oh, hi..." and proceeds to open the gate and let himself inside. I then hear my husband say (in his, I'm totally T.O.'ed right now but I'm trying to hide it, tone) "Uh, who are you?" At this point I'm inside the kidding stall and step out to see what's going on only to have a 10 year old complete freaking stranger standing in my goat pen looking at me like I'M the weird one! The kid then explains that he's so-and-so's son and he was just blah blah blah. We were so shocked we just pretty much stood there looking at him like, "WTH can I DO for you??" until he got a clue and left.

It happened one more time when I was home. I have no idea how many times it happened when I wasn't. Needless to say a phone call was made to the neighbor and we started padlocking gates.

Unfortunately my husband was born into a family that doesn't really GET personal space in the way normal people do, so a couple weeks after this we have another fun incident. One afternoon I had come home from work and was getting ready to jump in the shower when my husband calls to ask me if we have any salad in the fridge. I say, hang on, let me check, and make a nekkid detour to the refrigerator. I live in the woods, so under normal circumstances this is NOT an issue. However, I open the fridge, glance to my right and just outside a large window are 4 complete strangers walking through my yard and suddenly the salad doesn't seem all that important. As it turns out, they are even more distant relatives whom we've never met just walking over to gawk at my livestock unannounced.

Now we have a LGD in training.

 

[dianneS]

OMG, n.smithurmond!! Both stories are outrageous!

I would be annoyed at a kid just walking on my property and entering my fences. You know the kid was probably told to do that, by some adult with just as little respect for other people's property.

My DH and I have had some near nekkid incidents. My sister came to the door and caught my husband in the kitchen in his underwear. He was getting undressed in the kitchen because he didn't want to drag his dirty clothes upstairs. My sister went around to the front door and pretended she didn't see anything!

I've had to put a curtain on the kitchen door due to some near nekkid incidents with the Jehovas witnesses.

I have a LGD and signs in place for him, but that wasn't a deterrent so far. I really just cannot believe that anyone would enter fenced areas without permission?? It still boggles my mind.

We're only about a 1/4 mile from a very busy road. If my horses were to get hit by a car, the passengers in that car would probably be killed. A horse is almost ten times the size of a deer and look at the damage a deer can do to a car and sometimes the people inside? My goats could get into poisonous plants, not to mention destroy my landscaping! I just don't understand why a person would put themselves in a position where they could possibly be responsible for such tragedy and mayhem!! Why don't people think????

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

When I was a kid my best friend's mom's gorgeous buckskin quarter horse mare spooked and jumped a fence onto the busy highway they lived next to and was hit by a logging truck. She was, of course, devastated about losing her horse AND the lawsuit that followed!

 

[Emmetts Dairy]

I think people think all farms are petting zoo's sometimes. I go thru the same thing...But I will tell them straight up what the rules are at my farm!

I have alot of people coming to get eggs and bread..and they will bring the kids to see the animals...and I will not allow anyone to go to see the animals without escort. EVER! I dont have signs cuz people dont read them.

If the kids go running to the barn...I make them stop and tell them to wait and I would be glad to show you my animals but they must wait for me. And parents will stop them..once I say that...cuz it almost embarrasses the parents and they jump in.

I found it to easier to be up front with people and tell them your expectations when it comes to your animals...cuz they have no clue and truly the could get hurt.

Good luck...I recommend speaking up..you can put "keep out" signs...but communication of what you expect works for me..

People amaze me...I find common courtesy of others, is'ant so common anymore...its terrible.

 

[Bossroo]

I breed horses on my 20 Acres, which is well fenced with 6' high chainlink fence along the front. All access gates (4) are chained and padlocked. I installed electric wire offset in the inside of the chainlink with electric signs all over. I posted NO TRESPASSING SIGNS on the inside side of the fences and all gates. I had to do this for my liability insurance. The next day all of my signs were removed. The chains were cut. I again reposted,and replaced the chains... again removed, gates open and my horses runing out on the road. I even posted the signs on the power poles out front 12 feet high. Gone the next day. Come to find out that one of the neighbors delights in removing the signs and cutting the chains as he thinks that all the land around him is for his own pleasure and use anytime that he feels like it. He even had an attack trained Doberman Pincher run loose in the neighborhood that had chased one of my son's up onto our hay stack and wouldn't let him down all afternoon. We contacted the sherriff who had a heart to heart talk with him. Several months later another neighbor shot that dog while he was killing his sheep. Still, even years later, some of the signs go missing from time to time as well as the chains are cut. Thank God that none of the horses caused an accident yet.

 

[dianneS]

I breed horses on my 20 Acres, which is well fenced with 6' high chainlink fence along the front. All access gates (4) are chained and padlocked. I installed electric wire offset in the inside of the chainlink with electric signs all over. I posted NO TRESPASSING SIGNS on the inside side of the fences and all gates. I had to do this for my liability insurance. The next day all of my signs were removed. The chains were cut. I again reposted,and replaced the chains... again removed, gates open and my horses runing out on the road. I even posted the signs on the power poles out front 12 feet high. Gone the next day. Come to find out that one of the neighbors delights in removing the signs and cutting the chains as he thinks that all the land around him is for his own pleasure and use anytime that he feels like it. He even had an attack trained Doberman Pincher run loose in the neighborhood that had chased one of my son's up onto our hay stack and wouldn't let him down all afternoon. We contacted the sherriff who had a heart to heart talk with him. Several months later another neighbor shot that dog while he was killing his sheep. Still, even years later, some of the signs go missing from time to time as well as the chains are cut. Thank God that none of the horses caused an accident yet.

OMG! That is horrible!! Some people are just plain nuts! That guy sounds like the nut-job that just shot his TV during Bristol Palin's performance on Dancing with the Stars! Whackadoo!!

I'm really glad my only problem is a air-headed, absent-minded sister in law! Whew! I feel lucky now.

Sorry for your problems with that nut-job neighbor.

 

[SDGsoap&dairy]

I breed horses on my 20 Acres, which is well fenced with 6' high chainlink fence along the front. All access gates (4) are chained and padlocked. I installed electric wire offset in the inside of the chainlink with electric signs all over. I posted NO TRESPASSING SIGNS on the inside side of the fences and all gates. I had to do this for my liability insurance. The next day all of my signs were removed. The chains were cut. I again reposted,and replaced the chains... again removed, gates open and my horses runing out on the road. I even posted the signs on the power poles out front 12 feet high. Gone the next day. Come to find out that one of the neighbors delights in removing the signs and cutting the chains as he thinks that all the land around him is for his own pleasure and use anytime that he feels like it. He even had an attack trained Doberman Pincher run loose in the neighborhood that had chased one of my son's up onto our hay stack and wouldn't let him down all afternoon. We contacted the sherriff who had a heart to heart talk with him. Several months later another neighbor shot that dog while he was killing his sheep. Still, even years later, some of the signs go missing from time to time as well as the chains are cut. Thank God that none of the horses caused an accident yet.

Can you find a way to run a charge through the metal signs?