Do goats dream of electric fences?
We borrowed a new electric
fence system over the Holiday. (Thanks Errol)
I think it might take a few
days of cloudy sunshine to charge up the solar charger?
If it works the goats will
have a bigger pasture area to roam around in.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Cool Mark! We've used the same fencing system with our goats for almost 2 years now with no problems. We live against a large woods with a multitude of coyotes and haven't had an issue yet. I've personally seen 3 different hunting dogs that wandered onto our property get their noses shocked when they tried to get at our does. You've never heard a dog yelp so loud as when their noses touch that fence. The only issue was when I tried to use it to contain 2 intact bucks, they challenged the fence constantly despite getting shocked. The fencing is way tougher than it looks though, despite the bucks ramming their heads and horns though it on several occasions, twisting it around and tearing it from the ground, the fence still works great.
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Doug in Savannah
— Sat Nov 29 22:13:41 2014
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