Response to Keeping goats where they belong...

Just when you think you have a good answer about fencing, a goat comes along and defeats it. All those great recommendations for cattle panels and my goats easily clear them. One goat can stand perfectly still next to the panel and in the next second be over it. Our Nubian buck jumped over three panels in succession to escape his pen, go through the kid pen, and get into the doe pen. Some days the electric fence works and other days they just jump it. They also sniff the electric fence to see if it's on. We have found that they tend to get out less if they have lots and lots of room to roam. We have decided that when a fence works it's because the goats don't want out. We ended up fencing the garden with 6' woven wire. When the goats get out they are too interesting in freedom and checking out everything else to jump the fence into the garden. This doesn't help my fruit trees or my flowers though. Oh well, can't win them all.

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