Goat pen ideas

[Jonaboo 16]

I need ideas for a goat pen for pygmy goats.Please Help.

 

[aprille218]

Use dog kennel panels. Often you can find them used on craigslist or the like. Pretty much everything else we've had goats get out of.
Aprille

 

[Extra Java]

Cattle Pannels

 

[teeville5]

Interesting. We have 2 nigerian dwarf goats and were wondering if a pen made from cattle panels would work for them. Are the grids of the panels wide enough to prevent them climbing up and over?.

 

[Stacykins]

Interesting. We have 2 nigerian dwarf goats and were wondering if a pen made from cattle panels would work for them. Are the grids of the panels wide enough to prevent them climbing up and over?.

Cattle panels are working for my 'boy pen' and a lot of people use them. I know someone with some Nigerians, and also tall Alpines that stand much taller than the panels when on their hind legs. Everybody stays in!

I did have a Nigerian Dwarf who was an escape artist. She could vault over a fence or gate like she had wings. However, I lost her due to a tragic accident. I still have reinforced fencing for the does, no escapes since. And my boys are too lazy to escape from the cattle panels. The most they do is stick their heads through the squares in the panels.

 

[Extra Java]

Cattle panels are manufactured in various sizes...all 16 feet long however, height comes between: 3-5 feet tall.

Great thing about them besides strength is that they can be reconfigured and moved around easily.

 

[Nathan Sampson]

I have a herd of 11 goats in a cattle panel pen currently as the farm has no fences up yet. If you are smart with them you can even put them up in a circle and not need and fence posts. I have 13 or 14 panels up like this. I do not have a single post holding it up at all.

 

[Ziegenhof]

Cattle panels are the best thing since jelly beans!

I have a bad back and discovered that those huge rolls of field fencing are hard to work with... Cattle panels to the rescue!

I have combi panels for young kids/moms, and regular cattle panels for my buck pens, which are 50" tall by 16'long. Depending on the area you live in what they cost or if you get lucky finding some used ones in craigslist. I generally pay around $20 here.

Thankfully my place came pre-fenced for the does and they have about 5 acres to roam and forage but those panels are a life saver and an excellent way to start a pen if you don't have fencing!

 

[donrae]

We used horse panels........not sure if/how they are different than cattle panels? for our nubians and boer. We'd use the existing perimeter fence and put up the other three sides with the panels. We held them with snap clips or trigger snaps, but they didn't hold great and we went to baling twine. Personally I'd use zip ties but honey hates them for some reason. But, baling twine is free if you're buying hay, and basically indestructable. We never had a problem with our goats getting out.