Author Topic: What fencing does everyone use?  (Read 2863 times)

Azzdodd

  • Joined Apr 2012
What fencing does everyone use?
« on: May 25, 2013, 10:25:20 am »
I'm pretty reluctantly making my goats there own area in my field attempted before and they have escaped so getting a fencer in to do it.....it will consist of stock fence on the bottom and not sure about top I thought plain wire strand then barb then plain but by the time I've done that I could just do 2 stock fencing high? Like I say I'm reluctantly doing it as the goats cost alot more money than they make anyway....

fifixx

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Shillingstone, Dorset
    • Bere Marsh Farm
Re: What fencing does everyone use?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2013, 11:06:20 am »
Successful, if a bit pricey, goatproof fencing! Electric coming out over the top of the stock fence at an angle is the trick...

jinglejoys

  • Joined Jul 2009
Re: What fencing does everyone use?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2013, 12:21:49 pm »
For stock fencing I always use the lightweight stuff as its much easier to handle (I can pick up and carry a roll easily) As long as you make the boundary goat proof you can then divide it into smaller plots without worrying about escaping.
NEVER use barbed wire round any animals (Ought to be banned in my opinion!) ;)
 

fifixx

  • Joined Mar 2010
  • Shillingstone, Dorset
    • Bere Marsh Farm
Re: What fencing does everyone use?
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2013, 01:18:51 pm »
and lambsure (so rectangular not square) fencing wire so the silly things can get their heads out again after eating the greener grass on the other side of the fence....

Lesley Silvester

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • Telford
Re: What fencing does everyone use?
« Reply #4 on: May 25, 2013, 10:07:26 pm »
I have wooden fencing, three bars across uprights, with stock fencing over the bottom section. Or I did have stock fencing. They've pushed their heads through to get at the plants on the other side so often that it's all collapsed and I've had to put sheep hurdles across the gaps. It wasn't tensioned though so that may have made a difference.

 

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