Goat fencing?

[azure_]

My mom seems to think that goats are masters at excaping, but is that true? I want to get mostly Nigerian dwarfs and maybe two nubians. How tall does the fence have to be to keep in the goats and keep predators out? Anything else I should know about goat fencing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Weeg]

We have goats with our horses! They are Masters of escaping! I could go on and on about how they escape into the hay room! We use chainlink or hardware cloth, run between wooden posts to keep them in. It is about, hmm, 6 ft high?And depending on what yo have for a gate. If your pen comes up against a barn, and theres a sliding door, the goats will wedge themselves between the door and the wall, and push the door away form the wall to get in! Pigme, and any small goat is gonna be better at escaping. Billy, our Pigme, is always the one we find in the hay room!

 

[Tortoise]

Yes, I agree, they are great escapers and climbers so be leary of both. Do not put anything near the fence they could climb on and get over the fence.

 

[Fuchsia]

My goats do not get out, they have only escaped once and that was because I forgot to lock their gate.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Goats stay in if they are content. If not they will get out. To a goat the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Goats will go under, over, or through a fence. I have found after 30 years of keeping goats that wooden fences work best when possible, top with electric if necessary. For pasture we do a welded wire fence with strands of electric run along the inside to keep goats off the fence. Be careful using fencing with wide holes like cattle panels as goats with horns will get their heads stuck often.

 

[neo71665]

I've seen a goat get a running start, off a bale of hay we made sure to NOT put too close to the fence, off a cow's back, and land on the other side of a 6ft fence. I really really wish I had it on video.