what is the best way to build a goat pen?
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best types of materials for a goat pen. needs to be strong and GOAT PROOF!
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slaughter your goat for meat and you don’t have to worry about the pen
Phil
July 13, 2013 at 4:13 am
If they are anything like horses, you need to get treated wood. It is lacquered with an oil that is very bitter tasting and will discourage them from gnawing on it. If you end up using any wire on the pen, make sure no sharp burs are exposed. Animals can hurt themselves by scratching their eyes on the burs in an attempt to itch their faces.
Jordan of China
July 13, 2013 at 4:47 am
the best way is to figure out big you want it then go to a farm store get you tall chicken wire or hog wire and some metal post and when you put it up dont get the wire real tight because the goat will climb over it but be sure its tall enough he cant jump it low enough he cant crawl under it
wonder
July 13, 2013 at 5:23 am
Let me tell you a story…Last summer my BF (he’s a farmer) had someone call him that couldn’t keep two miniature goats anymore…They were moving or something…
He agreed to take them and he put them in the chicken yard (as big as my house, plenty of room to roam and a 5 foot high fence)…
Well one of them somehow got out, his dogs killed it…A few weeks later, the same thing happened to the other one…He never did figure out how they got out..
My point ? Goats are escape artists…You need a really high fence that’s reinforced, all metal because they’ll chew trough wood…Hope I’ve helped.. 🙂
mojos1966
July 13, 2013 at 5:50 am
Get a standard chain link fence. Put the posts in the ground with concrete fill.
Good luck!
Hello Cow How Are You?
July 13, 2013 at 6:14 am
There are many ways to build a goat pen, almost as many as there are goat breeders.
We use cattle panels for fencing for our adult does. Kids are behind combination panels. They cost more but the little kids can get through the regular cattle panels and hog panels are too short. These panels will work for bucks if you add an electric wire at both the top and bottom.
Goats will chew on press board but other types of plywood can be used if they are thick enough or you can use wood for panels within a barn.
Premier fencing has some great ideas for goat fencing as well as other dairy goat or meat goat sites. Try finding some breeders near you and ask them what they’ve done for pens.
Everbely
July 13, 2013 at 6:33 am
here the only answer you need….
Pallets yes pallets… there free. easy to install. .
stick them on there side . goats climb up other wood , but not pallets. if you stack them right .
pallets are 4ftx4ft goat cant get over this fence ….
how do i know? , im a goat expert . , if you goats get any kind of pioson . use liquid parfinn to stop the pionson killing your goats. work great . trimming feet use semi circle knife , like a lino knife ..
need any more help . email me thanks
harlysdream66
July 13, 2013 at 6:43 am
I found the best method that worked on most of my goats (there is always one or two who can escape anything) is a fence (I have had page wire and wood fences) and run three strands of electric fencing with your regular fence. One low enough they cannot get under it easily..one on the upper edge that they will hit if trying to stand up or climb, and one nicely inbetween.
I did find that I did not need electric fencing when the goats ran with the horses…they just stayed with them except the one who could escape anything..he ate my flowers..pooped where ever you moved the children’s swing set..rubbed the paint off and scratched up hubby’s brand new transport…oh those were the days.
pissy_old_lady
July 13, 2013 at 7:36 am
What kind of goats? How big are they? Are they bucks?
I raise meat goats, and currently have over 100 of them in my herd. We fence with tall range fence, backed with electric wire.
I went to one farm to look at some goats to purchase. I watched his completely physco Boer buck systematically destroying a pen built from 6X6 lumber, and cattle panels. There was a post every six feet, with three horizontal rails of 6×6 lumber, backed with the cattle pannels. This buck was so strong, and so agressive, he was breaking that lumber . It wasn’t even breeding season.
The man had picked up metal guard rails and was building a new pen with those, to try and hold this buck. I mean the metal guard rails they use to keep cars from going off cliffs, or bridges.
Do you have a myotonic, pygmy, or dwarf goat? They cannot jump that high (if at all in the case of Myotonic goats). So you can get away with a lower fence.
Cattle panels, backed with electric are usually the easiest way to build goat pens. Cattle panels are 16 feet long. Brace them (put a post in) every 8 feet. The electric will keep your goats from rubbing on the cattle panels, standing on them, and from sticking their heads through them. The electric will all help keep neighbor dogs and coyotes away from your goats.
Range fencings costs less than cattle panels, but it’s mighty hard to properly string without a tractor to pull the line of fencing tight.
~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years
Raising meat goats since 1999
Bohemian_Garnet_Permaculturalist
July 13, 2013 at 7:48 am