Fullhousefarm
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She (now 10.5 month old Lamancha) was the amazing fence leaper a few months ago, but we had that mostly taken care of. She was leaping over the 48" horse fence without touching it to get to our "back" pasture where the feed room is. Not a huge deal since the feed room is goat proof (for now, more on that later.) and it's just more of our fenced pasture for the horses. The neighbor turned her electric on that's over her 40" fence and that kept her from going over to have brunch with her goats after she had her breakfast here. If she goes, then the wether will knock down the electric and clumsily get over to be with her. Since he's a wether, not a huge deal, but we really want the goats to stay here for obvious reasons. Thankfully we are good friends with the neighbor.
Well, since she's in heat and there is a billy next door (but separated from us by 2-3 fences or more- with electric on all) we have been putting both goats in the horse stall at night and tying her out of sight of the neighbors during the day since we KNOW she can still jump the fence. Yesterday afternoon, she was tied since she's in heat and DD let her go on accident and she was over two fences in 3 seconds and I had to go hold the neighbor's billy until we got her out. Thankfully, for a billy, he's quite personable and was nice to me. He only had eyes for the doe. This morning, before we had let her out at around 7:30 I look out just in time to see her leap over our fence. I sent my husband (the sweet dear that he is, plus he had shoes on and wasn't in pjs. lol) over to get her before she jumped over two more fences to where the billy was. He rescued her just in time, though she wasn't all to happy to have her secret date interrupted again. First we thought maybe our daughter hadn't latched the top door to the stall, but it was till latched tight. So, she escaped the horse stall when she heard the neighbor feeding moments before, apparently. On three sides it totally enclosed to the ceiling. The fourth side is smooth plywood 60" high, the the opening there is only 24" before the ceiling. Nothing to climb on at all.
Any ideas on keeping her contained? We hate to tie her, but I can't fence my whole property 72" tomorrow. She jumped over the electric that was on this morning. We can goat proof the "goat barn" at some point into goat jail (right now it's a 3 sided run-in shelter), but that would only work to lock her in at night. We really thought the horse barn was perfect. Now I have no idea where we are going to put the brat tonight where she's contained, but has shelter and can't get tangled.
She is my daughter's goat and her bright idea was just to breed her now even though it's sooner than we were planning. That would solve the problem- till next year, but she's still younger than we'd prefer. (She would be breeding her with another registered LaMancha from where she purchased her.)
Sigh. Tell me this is preparing me for having teenagers.
ETA: I have a charger to run an electric fence, but I don't want to go to all that work and just have her go over it. The billy is only in the "close" pen for 6 weeks, and farther away once the neighbor is done breeding, so motivation/consequences for escape will be less in 2 weeks- if I survive them.
Well, since she's in heat and there is a billy next door (but separated from us by 2-3 fences or more- with electric on all) we have been putting both goats in the horse stall at night and tying her out of sight of the neighbors during the day since we KNOW she can still jump the fence. Yesterday afternoon, she was tied since she's in heat and DD let her go on accident and she was over two fences in 3 seconds and I had to go hold the neighbor's billy until we got her out. Thankfully, for a billy, he's quite personable and was nice to me. He only had eyes for the doe. This morning, before we had let her out at around 7:30 I look out just in time to see her leap over our fence. I sent my husband (the sweet dear that he is, plus he had shoes on and wasn't in pjs. lol) over to get her before she jumped over two more fences to where the billy was. He rescued her just in time, though she wasn't all to happy to have her secret date interrupted again. First we thought maybe our daughter hadn't latched the top door to the stall, but it was till latched tight. So, she escaped the horse stall when she heard the neighbor feeding moments before, apparently. On three sides it totally enclosed to the ceiling. The fourth side is smooth plywood 60" high, the the opening there is only 24" before the ceiling. Nothing to climb on at all.
Any ideas on keeping her contained? We hate to tie her, but I can't fence my whole property 72" tomorrow. She jumped over the electric that was on this morning. We can goat proof the "goat barn" at some point into goat jail (right now it's a 3 sided run-in shelter), but that would only work to lock her in at night. We really thought the horse barn was perfect. Now I have no idea where we are going to put the brat tonight where she's contained, but has shelter and can't get tangled.
She is my daughter's goat and her bright idea was just to breed her now even though it's sooner than we were planning. That would solve the problem- till next year, but she's still younger than we'd prefer. (She would be breeding her with another registered LaMancha from where she purchased her.)
Sigh. Tell me this is preparing me for having teenagers.
ETA: I have a charger to run an electric fence, but I don't want to go to all that work and just have her go over it. The billy is only in the "close" pen for 6 weeks, and farther away once the neighbor is done breeding, so motivation/consequences for escape will be less in 2 weeks- if I survive them.
