Making A Goat Fence

Horns are nature s multitool.

Making a goat fence.

Goat proof fence the biggest single expense with goat ownership is fencing. This also lessens the temptation for goats to graze over or through the fence. There is an adage that says if your fence won t hold water it won t hold a goat some people swear by electric fences for goats. Yet our male goat loves to use the fence to rack his horns on.

Even a goat with average intellect learns how to use them like the claw of a hammer to uproot poorly set t posts or pull up wire fence that hasn t been placed snug to the ground or stretched tight. You might need electric fencing in addition to this design but in my ex. The can readily jump over climb squeeze through or simply bash down most typical livestock fences. When considering a fence for your goats make sure the fencing material is strong.

Goats also will learn they re poor conductors of electricity and will use the tips to pull electric wire out of the way. Goats are very tough to fence in. In this video i show every step in the installation of a goat fence on open pasture. It is actually kind of funny because we purchased livestock fencing and thought our goats will never get through this well our female goats only use the fence to brush themselves.

I think it s also safe to say there is no one perfect solution for comfortably containing goats. Conventional goat wisdom suggests 6 12 goats per acre but this varies with available forage.