underground fencing.

[Kada6305]

I think I put this is the right section? sorry if I didn't. anyway for fencing i plan on doing a main area with 5 strand hot wire. this will connect to their doors in the bottom of the garage that leads to their stalls. Then I was planning on doing the under ground fence for about 2-3 acres. Do you think it would work to train them on the underground fence? I f I trained them same way as I trained my dogs?

 

[KathyG]

I totally think this would work, as I'm sure goats are smarter than dogs (LOL!), but you'd need a collar for each goat, and they run somewhere around $50 each.
Please, please, if you do this, let us know how it turns out!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

My concern would be predators. Fences are for keeping livestock in and predators OUT!

 

[Kada6305]

Oh yes. Their main pasture would be fenced in with regular electric wire. This will be fore while I am outside with them doing yard work and just hanging out with them.

 

[Kada6305]

We decided to just go ahead with normal electric wire. It really wasn't that much more, anyway. Working on putting 9 strands of wire for them. But we are training them on 3. with panels on the outside so they can't just bolt forward....since yesterday Lolli bolted through the wire ran around screaming like an idiot...scared crap out of both me an DH that she was going to go out on the road! but nope. she came back trying to figure out how to get back in LOL If you want anything done right, you have to do it yourself LOL

 

[Kada6305]

Speaking of Lolli...She LOVES petco!

 

[Ridgetop]

We used hot wire with our horses for a while with a battery charger. They always knew when it died and would come clomping into the yard to eat hay in the middle of the night. Luckily they had to walk right past my window so I would wake up and close them in the farmyard!

 

[Bunnylady]

The bolting through is exactly what I would expect from a goat. I have goats that would do the same thing with hot wire, if the wires aren't spaced so close that it's not physically possible. When I had one of those chargers that keeps the wires constantly charged, I saw a goat start to run through the fence, trip on a wire and go down on top of it. As long as she was lying on it, the charge went into the ground, and she was fine. Every time she tried to get up, the wire came up under her belly, she got shocked, she screamed, and fell down again. I had to go turn the charger off to get her off of it.

I wound up with a sort of double fence - welded wire to keep them in, and a hot wire to keep them off the welded wire. I call the goats my "pointy-headed problem children." From my experience, I wouldn't even think about underground fencing for goats.

 

[Kada6305]

They are learning They both got shocked few times yesterday and ran into the barn. Took lolli a good 6 hours before she was out grazing. Lilli still isn't sure. I'm training them where we have the pannels and 3 strands hot wire. Where panels aren't we have 9 strands hot wire.But neither of them went through the fence, each backed away. They haven't come outside today, yet.

 

[samssimonsays]

I myself have wondered about using a shock collar for the naughty one who likes to run for the road... I like this idea though! May have to try it along the tree line before the ditch to keep them on our side!