blueberrygirl
Chillin' with the herd
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We have about an acre enclosed with solar electric fencing. We researched & did everything "right" according to several extension publications. We have steel t posts every 20 feet, 8 wires (bottom 3 are 6" apart & electrified, wires get increasingly far apart & every other is ground), & have a 30 mile solar energizer. This worked just fine with a smaller energizer for our first 4 goats that were about 6 months old when we got them. Their kids, however, & 5 new goats (3 months old when we got them) aren't even phased by this fence. We touched their noses to it many times. They just slip between the wires & get them all stretched out. We've had to tighten & tighten & some have been broken & spliced because of it. So we upped the energizer to the 30 mile. They still constantly get out. They are nearly a year old now & all have kids on the way. I know we are in for chaos. We also got a second warning from animal control because there's one that likes to eat the neighbor's trees & garden. We don't know what else to do since there's no way we can afford to put up goat panels. Oh & we did try adding orange snow fence but they just busted through that as well. HELP please! !!!