What is the deal?

[Queen Mum]

Your goat go thru the electric fence?

I guess I need to count myself lucky! If my goats get within a foot of the wire, they run screaming to the barn! I guess there are advantages to having spastic wusses for goats!

Well, since we upgraded to a higher voltage (20,000) on the fence, they are less often going through the fence, but on the four wire sections, they little ones (mini's and dwarfs) will touch the wire and panic and then they run between the wires. (I think if we have a couple more strands closer together that problem would stop.)

Since we put in the extra two wires in the boys section they haven't gone through. BUT None of the girls are in heat either. We do have no/climb wire fencing on three sides though with a single strand on top and they leave that fence COMPLETELY alone.

 

[vermillionoaks]

Our 4' fence holds in our goats (Nigerians) as long as their is not something close enough to the fence to use as a jumping point. If there is, our goats use the fence like a jungle gym!