Electric Fences & Goats

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
Yes

fences need to be tight and straight, and preferably a proper metal wire - on top at least - because they can learn to rocket through polywire and then the goats are goneburgers

if it's dry 🙄 I'd go for similar to what we use for break-fencing deer¹, and use the top one as an earth wire, running jumpers down at intervals and helping the circuit /better visual obstacle, because if you're airborne you get no shock - they learn this fast

¹ these were 2 metre, 10mm fibreglass rods driven in with wires clipped on.

Ps you might want to do what I've done on our place with spring assemblies, worried a roo or deer will wreck your fence
 

Gulli

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Somerset
So long as they have plenty to eat my dairy goats will stay behind 2 strands of wire.
The meat goats are a bit more troublesome and will climb out of anything if they get bored so I try and keep them moving, at least one move a week does the trick.
Also they don't always jump although they can, sometime they just squeeze between the wires and stand the other side eating the hedge. I'd think if they had plenty to browse they would be easy enough
 

topground

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Somerset.
First photo training set up for does and new borns for the first time in the kidding enclosure.. Second grazing Boer.
One or two had to be caught and reintroduced to the consequences of contact with the fence but so far successful in that they no longer roam the parish.
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