Nubian Goats: What do I need to know?

I love my nubians! I only have 2 does, but I hand raised these girls (one from birth) when they were not being treated well by their moms. Baby was the tiniest of the bunch, all 3 of my Nubians having kidded within a couple of hours of each other, and really couldn't get going at all. I set up a goatling NICU in my living room and got to work. Now a year later, she is super friendly, gentle, and inquisitive. We kept Baby and Oreo, another runty doeling, and sold all the others. The batch that we sold were terrible fence jumpers! We couldn't build a fence high enough to keep them in. These 2 that we kept never even try the fences. (Hopefully, they will stay that way!) My daughter ended up with their cousins and they are fence jumping little boogers too! If you are getting Nubians, get good fences, or you will never have a veggie garden, or flowers, or young trees!

Put a hot wire on that fence...they'll stay where they belong.

I would like to think a hot wire would be effective. My doe's grandma would go right over or through hot wire. She was an ornery girl!

I thought that Alpines win the ornery award but maybe not. Mine respect that wire so much that when we are working on a project and don't want their help we can run a wire and not even energize it, they stay away from it.

We have a 4' no climb fence with a hot wire at the top and at about 12" off of the ground. They don't mess with it at all and the bite that the fence gives will sit me in the dirt in a hurry. IT HURTS. Maybe you just needed a hotter fence.

Mine used to go on walk abouts but not any more.

I will have to find some that are raised closely with people to ensure they are "well mannered" I know, I crack myself up, we are talking about goats! My oldest two (Nubian/Saanan mix and an Alpine) are pains in the rear and naughty little boogers but have not challenged a normal, 4' fence "YET" that is. The littlest one (Alpine) I can leave in a lean to gated pen and she will not challenge it. I am hopeful that when we are able to add a Nubian, or so, to the herd we will have our pen expanded substantially but my goats get to come out on the property and graze freely while we are home as it is now.

In response to the respecting of the hotwire, I did put the dogs shock collar on the Alpine wether and he got a nice jolt when he went too close to the road. He remembers that boundary well. (we aren't going to run hotwire around the entire property for what short time they are out and about with us )

If it jumps out three times it goes bye bye, two years later I had goats that stayed in 2 wire barbed or twisted wire fences they could technically just duck through lol