The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: kelly58 on March 11, 2014, 03:54:44 pm
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Has anyone every tried electric fence to keep goats in ?
We have a large piece of grazing that my OH wont let me fence and l want to put my girls on it once they are wormed.
Dont see the point in mowing when we have animals to graze it down.
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My Saanens got access to the garden via electric fence until their field was finished.
The first few times they got shocked, they blasted through the fence, they don't have the same instinct to recoil as sheep and do push against things (same with the sheepdog!).
However, after they'd figured out this white wire stuff hurts, they were very good at keeping away from it.
I wouldn't trust them fully, as something could still frighten them into running, and I wouldn't think it would necessarily stop them if they were determined, but neither will traditional fencing with stubborn goats!
I do believe it's been mentioned before, but the thicker tape/rope is probably better, as they respect it better if they can see it coming!
All the best
Suzanne
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Thank you Suzanne :thumbsup:
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We have electric strands but I have to admit we also had to add stock fencing because they seem to be quite thick skinned/determined/naughty/annoying (!) and I have to say it was a wether kid that was mostly the problem.
It works well for us now with the fencing beneath.
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We started out with the whole of our goat paddock fenced off with 3 strands of electric fence. It was ok but they soon worked out how to crawl under/ squeeze through the strands. We re fenced with stock fence with a single electric strand round the top which works well. I wouldn't use electric netting, as fsmnutter pointed out, goats don't do the whole 'recoil' thing very well and could easily get tangled up in it.