The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: langdon on February 11, 2010, 10:06:15 am
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our girls milly and molly have been really naughty the last few days.
they have been getting out everyway they can.
our hedge is temporaily baracaded up with posts and what have you.
so there is only one thing for it, fence running along side the inside of hedge.
last summer before we had the girls we had the farmer do the hedge with the cutter
(what a mistake) its taken the bulk out of the hedge leaving all of these gaps.
ah well you live and learn esp on a smallholding!!!!!!! ;D :goat:
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Goats are clever. If they find a gap anywhere, no matter how small, they will go through it. Get up next morning, and off they go again. Sheep are the same. Also at this time of year they are desperate for branches, grass, anything they can get, and they do not mind how they get it!!
Once the weather is better, and the grass and leaves come through, they will have better things to do than escape (hopefully!) I have spent a fortune on fencing goats in, and have still lots more to do.