I am getting a nubian

[griffin45]

The more grain you give a goat the more it will stay where you want it to stay. But then you have the problem with overfeeding and weight. A goat can easily clear a 6 foot fence if it wants to. Right now my goats don't want to, but at certain times of the year that changes. At a minimum I would go with a 48" fence. Right now I am looking at 72" no climb horse fence for my buck pen. I would spend the money right now no questions asked if I knew that it would keep the bucks in at Rut, but it is not a guarantee. As your goat gets older the fence should get higher. Get Nubian does and feed them treats at a particular time every day and they will always be there at the proper time and place!
Chris

 

[MrsCountryChick]

I'm new to Goats myself (had pygmys before) but never Dairy goats before now. & my Doe Saanen has a horse stall (now goat stall

cuz it's her stall now). That she can free roam in & sleep at night in & I've been on the other stall side fiddling with items & she easily hops her front feet onto the solid wood stall back to hop up & look at what I'm doing.... putting her feet easily over 5 ft high on the stall wall.

Hubby says they're similar to deer....... & I believe it, lol.

 

[dixygirl]

I have seen a Nigerian baby jump up on top of a cabinet that is almost 5 feet high in one gentle leap. So 3 feet would be nothing for them.

A dog can even jump over a 3 foot fence.

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

our goats were bouncing out of our 5 ft fence so we ran an electric wire around the inside perimeter. zap! no more bouncing out.

we did this the day after i found our best milker (a la mancha) with all fours up and tangled in the fence. basically she was hanging by her udder and her feet (drop buckets, hysterical run here). after everyone got the business on the nose they knocked it off.

 

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I raise almost all kinds of goats - angoras, fullblood boers, and dairies (saanen, british alpine, toggy, nubian ... ) and yes, the angoras are easiest to keep in. The dairy breeds are the hardest. Angoras are very laid back in almost all regards, they are easy on fences, they dont tend to jump or push under or bash on the fences. The dairies are the worst to contain as they are the best jumpers and dont think twice about jumping. The boers are mid-way between the two - they dont jump very often, though occassionally they will, they more so like to push under the fence, and they rub and bash on the fence quite heavily too. For what its worth, Nubians are some of the hardest dairy goats to contain - they do better in a free range situation. The Saanen breed does best in confinement (a stall or pen system) but they are also the largest and would be able to walk over your fence.

FWIW, if you are after milk, I have milked both Angoras and fullblood Boers. Beautiful rich milk, similar to nubian milk just not as much of it.

 

[dkluzier]

Here's one of my 2009 nubian babies, Eileen.

 

[Dorothy1324]

we have 9 week old Nigerian dwarf goats and they are always jumping out of our 48 inch fence so a full size nubian sure would

 

[Jessika]

Uh.....my nubian does stay in my 5 foot fence. The whethers 7 foot fence. They kept getting out of the 5 foot one. They will bend and break wire too. I had to reinforce with hog wire around it. They really love to eat the trees on the other side f the fence. lol