Response to Keeping goats where they belong...

Monica, Though we have the 13 acres fenced in field fencing, we have found that it eaiser to put troublesome spots and troublesome animals into cattle panel fencing. During rut my bucks live in cattle panel fencing, with that said my now deceased Nubain, has a head profile smashed into one of these panels that is still here today, he did not get through though. My gal friends LaMancha buck can stand and clear a cattle panel so during rut he wears a chain with a weight at the end. (Who'd know he had Champion daughters!) I have cattle panels on the parts of the fence that get the most wear, the watering site, the haying site and where the girls look out to see when I am coming to milk. Goats are a challenge, but the longer you have your does, the eaiser going they get. Or perhaps it is just us who resigns ourselves to them. Most goats who jump have actually been taught to jump, you start with a 3 foot fence, that as they grow they can jump over, you then add 2 strands of barbed wire, and they learn to bend it down and jump it, so you add another wire....get the idea? Vicki McGaugh

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