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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: bazzais on March 28, 2011, 06:35:39 pm

Title: At last the goats have been contained :)
Post by: bazzais on March 28, 2011, 06:35:39 pm: At last after several (lame) tries at getting them penned - they are in!!! :goat:

Post and rail with stock fence - with a 5 foot electric mesh fence bolted to the top rail - at last I can get rid of all the dead eaten plants and buy some new ones!!

They have a big pig ark, a pond and a few tables to jump across, along with 3 wild ducks and the chickens to play with (they have a chicken sized hole to get in)

They have been screaming everytime we open the front door or anyone goes past - but I am sure in time they will love it + its safer for them as they have got a taste for electric wires - mainly 12v ones but I can see them finding a mains cable if I couldnt contain them :)

Baz
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Post by: jinglejoys on March 28, 2011, 06:41:19 pm: Pond....liver fluke?Hope the ducks do a good job ;)
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Post by: little blue on March 28, 2011, 07:29:39 pm: ::D all good fun?!!
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Post by: bazzais on March 28, 2011, 07:38:27 pm: Liver fluke yeah never really thought of it till you mention - the crawlies do get quite alot during summer as its shady too.

I'll def make sure they are upto date with their dosing.

I love the little bastards - but love and bastards are on equal pars ;)

Ta

Baz
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Post by: bazzais on April 02, 2011, 12:04:47 pm: Only two modifications so far:-

They learned how to open the gate latch - tied the gate with string.
They learned to chew the string then open gate latch - tied with rope.

Just waiting to get a chain now cos sure they'll spend all day chewing the rope.

Clever bastards these goatylids.

Baz
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Post by: Mays on April 02, 2011, 01:54:09 pm: Quote from: bazzais on April 02, 2011, 12:04:47 pm
Only two modifications so far:-

They learned how to open the gate latch - tied the gate with string.
They learned to chew the string then open gate latch - tied with rope.

Just waiting to get a chain now cos sure they'll spend all day chewing the rope.

Clever bastards these goatylids.

Baz

sorry but... LOLOLOL!! they can be ery naughty, or is it just us that are very silly! LOL!
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Post by: little blue on April 02, 2011, 09:02:45 pm: they are clever... and have all day long to figure out how to get out!
and if they are anything like ours, they'll just watch you put it on in the first place so need to work it out!

We have a latch (so it shuts behind you) a Brenton bolt that padlocks and, since Max was born a door chain... when he has his "mad half hour" and was jumping up the gate, we thought it would stop it swinging open.
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Post by: Brucklay on April 02, 2011, 09:13:12 pm: Just love imagining the scene - goats are great and keep you on your toes (with hand tools at the ready)
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Post by: bazzais on April 02, 2011, 09:17:21 pm: When they escape they just come to the front window and start kissing it and chewing the sky cables - they are so proud to get out, its like they have conquered tackeshis castle or done the crapton factor in under 2 minutes. the great escape going on with pockets full of mud. Bloomin goats!! lol

Baz
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Post by: Brucklay on April 02, 2011, 09:22:58 pm: Mine are pretty stay in - but we have one Buffy who 'limbo's' - if she can squeeze her head sideways under anything she will continue, body flat on the ground - I don't even tell her off as it's so funny and really she only does it to follow me and the crunchies to the sheep!!
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Post by: bazzais on April 02, 2011, 09:56:42 pm: They are every bit as dexterous as the stories go arnt they - blooming things!! :goat: :goat: :goat:

Baz
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Post by: Roxy on April 02, 2011, 11:52:12 pm: I have often said that we should fence our fields with security fencing like you see round factories .....or prisons!!

Our three tall boys, hop over fencing, walls whatever. Billy who we have just lost, could get over fences too, and field gates were his speciality.

I watched two kids today,climb on to our dry stone wall and dance along it ......
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Post by: little blue on April 03, 2011, 05:05:10 pm: well, when I first read this, I thought to myself.. "the only escapes we have ever, ever had have been through an open gate" so was just the teeniest bit smug about our goat-proof fencing...

.... you've guessed it - our first escape today!!
One of the kids managed to get through the stock fence where it had become loose from the wood, and couldnt get back in again.
Luckily (being only two weeks old!) she stayed close to the fence, crying through the fence to her mum who was bleating back! I managed to pick her up quick and pop her back, no harm done.... and have spent the morning checking & fixing the fences & shed!
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Post by: Roxy on April 03, 2011, 10:07:07 pm: Yes, kids can get through tiny spaces - ours squeeze either under the fence, or through the squares - then they stand there bleating, wanting to come back again.