The Old Folks Home

[vehve]

Al, the end facing away from the house (and wind) has two pieces of plastic that overlap about a foot and a half in the middle. That works as our entrance and air exchange. We can just open them like curtains when needed.

 

[Alaskan]

Well.... The goats....


They would not stay in the pasture if the boys left the pasture... They didn't care about being shocked...they would just bust through the fence to chase after the boys.

Poor goats, I think being stuck in a barn for a month has made them nutty.


Anyway, I told the kids to make a scarecrow. So the kids got some boy clothes, stuffed them with junk, made the clothes stand up with some temporary fence posts in the middle of the pasture.

The goats are now happy. The kids call it the "calmgoat" since it is not to scare crows, it is there to calm goats.

We keep looking out the window... After about three HOURS, the goats are finally grazing about 8 feet away from the "calm goat" instead of only two feet away.


Poor goats.

 

[Alaskan]

Al, the end facing away from the house (and wind) has two pieces of plastic that overlap about a foot and a half in the middle. That works as our entrance and air exchange. We can just open them like curtains when needed.

So it does work a bit like phasing through

 

[perchie.girl]

Well.... The goats....


They would not stay in the pasture if the boys left the pasture... They didn't care about being shocked...they would just bust through the fence to chase after the boys.

Poor goats, I think being stuck in a barn for a month has made them nutty.


Anyway, I told the kids to make a scarecrow. So the kids got some boy clothes, stuffed them with junk, made the clothes stand up with some temporary fence posts in the middle of the pasture.

The goats are now happy.

The kids call it the "calmgoat" since it is not to scare crows, it is there to calm goats.

We keep looking out the window... After about three HOURS, the goats are finally grazing about 8 feet away from the "calm goat" instead of only two feet away.


Poor goats.

Awww.... Need to get some field fence next this way it will keep stray dogs out... /Set some hot wire just for dogs. on the outside.

deb

 

[Bunnylady]

That psuedo sorta shepherd was an interesting idea, Alaskan - glad it worked for you. I'm afraid I'm not surprised that the hot wire wasn't enough - I've never understood how anyone keeps goats behind an electric fence. Too many times, I have seen mine go charging right through, screaming all the way. I've even had a couple of them get stuck on the wire, and I had to go turn the charger off to get them off.

The only thing that has worked for me is welded wire to keep them in, and a hot wire to keep them off the welded wire. If the hot wire grounds out or stops working for some other reason, they start climbing and rubbing on the welded wire, stretching it and breaking it down.

 

[drumstick diva]

OK SCG you gave Wisher a black eye, WHAT did SHE give YOU in return???? That's what I want to know.

 

[Alaskan]

That psuedo sorta shepherd was an interesting idea, Alaskan - glad it worked for you. I'm afraid I'm not surprised that the hot wire wasn't enough - I've never understood how anyone keeps goats behind an electric fence. Too many times, I have seen mine go charging right through, screaming all the way. I've even had a couple of them get stuck on the wire, and I had to go turn the charger off to get them off.  The only thing that has worked for me is welded wire to keep them in, and a hot wire to keep them off the welded wire. If the hot wire grounds out or stops working for some other reason, they start climbing and rubbing on the welded wire, stretching it and breaking it down.

I did ask around...

People that clearly must own pretend goats, told me that their goats stayed behind electric wire just fine.

Not sure what I will do. If the "calm goat" / psuedo shepard stops working... Maybe I will take some electric wire and weave verticals onto the electric fence.

Not sure.

I do know that I am not spending the money to fence that two acres in goat wire. There has to be some free way that
I can make this work without locking the poor goats into the barn for the rest of their lives.

Luckily, so far, the "calm goat" is still working. Two acres of pasture, and those two does still haven't gone more than eight feet away from the "calm goat". I find that freaky weird and odd and a bit disturbing.

 

[perchie.girl]

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what you might do is stake one out alternating does every other day use the hot wire for predator protection.

I have a cousin that raises dairy goats and her place is HUGE. Mostly horses cattle llamas but all white wood fence. NOT goat proof.

What she does is put each goat on a tractor tire on about a twenty foot lead. Inside the tractor tire is their water tub. so it doesnt get knocked over. This way she can roll the tire to a new stake out spot.

I have pictures somewhere...

deb

 

[vehve]

Al, poor goats are just lonely. Maybe take them inside instead of building pseudo-friends.

 

[Alaskan]

Ha!


Spouse will love a house goat.


Yeah deb, I thought of tying one, but I am worried the idiot goat would kill itself. Maybe the "calm goat" will work.