Getting Goat kids

[chickens really]

Lot's better for walking them they have learned that
you are a great goat Mom

I definitely do my best daily even if it's wrong..
They love me so that's a bonus..

 

[pennyJo1960]

I think you are wonderful to them and make a great Mom

 

[Don 27]

Deer fence works. At least I think?

I will look this up thanks!
Happy New year.. Yet We've survived another year...

Yes ask for field fencing best option with t posts

Ok t posts and field fencing like what farmers use to use why didn't I think of that

I use regular 2’x4’ chicken wire fencing for my goat pens right now, although I wouldn’t recommend it. I’d recommend getting woven field fencing, and if you want fencing your chickens can get through I’d make sure whatever goats you’re getting are dehorned so they can’t stick their head through and get stuck.

thanks! that's a good thought !...

I lifted the gate to my fence up about 6 to 8 inches and it's perfect for my chickens and even the smaller cats to squat down and crawl under it and get in and out as they please. It's harder to do that with the fence area because goat Can stick their nose is under and push the fence up. But depending on the kind of date you have it's not so easy to do that with the gate

A taller gate could work maybe placed at the entrance of the woods where the chickens commonly use for access. What do you have fenced off you doing a larger area as well ?. Eventually as time goes by after the goats clean up the woods im going to take the larger wood out and hopefully farm it. The kids will really enjoyed the goats . The woods that I'm going to pasture off use to be the farmers pasture back in the 1800s. Back then any land that wasn't farmed was pasture ..if a farmer wasn't doing anything with the land they would consider it a wast. There's old field fencing hidden all over in this woods. A lot of its gone but every now and then you find a post in the ground. There's not a lot of old growth in the woods so that makes me think that the farmer got rid of his cattle not to long ago. The fencing use to go up to my old dairy barn but a lot of it has been removed and mowed . I'm not going to use the barn for animals so I will have to build my own shelter in the woods for the goats. Its interesting in this area theres a lot of woods with newer growth near the old style barns. I wonder if dairy farming in this area started going away around the same time period. The farmers didn't pull up the old fence so they could farm the pasture so eventually the pastures grew up to woods.




Thanks guys for the replies!!

 

[chickens really]

Question? Are Pygmy goats smaller than Nigerian Dwarf goats?

 

[chickens really]

Oh I found the answer finally. Pretty much the same size but Pygmy are meat goats and Nigerian are dairy goats..

 

[HuffleClaw]

Would you ever want dairy goats? Milk goats!!!

 

[chickens really]

Would you ever want dairy goats? Milk goats!!!

I won't be milking goats..

 

[MillersFarm]

The goats today~

 

[chickens really]

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They are all so cute! I like that black and white spotted one too. Such a nice herd of goats.

 

[chickens really]

Jaime who is this in the background? The black and white? Adorable!!!