Affordable goat fencing options?

[Southern by choice]

When you need to start/finish a stretch at each end you will have considerable waste as you need to "wrap" the fence. So 100 ft will not cover 100 ft.
Wood post are great for areas you know are going to be permanent. Areas where you may expand but are not sure of the overall picture use T-posts... less work when you want to reconfigure.

Often when someone gets goats they start out with an idea of what they want, but after owning goats and of course adding goats (which will happen) things change and have the flexibility is a bonus.

Pull t-post is a heck of a lot easier than removing wood post concreted in.

Hotwire is a great temp set up. ... ours has been "temporary" for 4 years now

I had a thread pulled up yesterday but something came up and I didn't post it- I share a computer so someone closed them out.
It explains the wrap, has great videos on how to stretch if you do not have a tractor, how to make a nice tight fence with different styles of corners etc.

I'll look again.

 

[mandi224]

@Southern by choice That would be great if you could find those videos again! I've watched a few but more is always good!

I get your point about re-configuring and having to pull t-posts rather than cemented wooden posts. I think having that flexibility for us would be good. But do you think t-posts would hold up in the corners? I was thinking we'd need wooden posts at least for the corners and to hang the gate.

 

[Southern by choice]

You still need wood on corners and at gates.
I like the second gate... we have every kind of gate
1st gate is fine but goats like to put their feet on it and although they don't climb out of it they still climb on it.
Both styles do have that opening at the top. For us we have had to put cattle section on it sometimes as we raise and train Livestock guardians and they can go through that in a second- once they learn no or are too big we take it off.
The tube gates are also fine... you do want to put either 2x4 on it or pig/cattle panels so goats don't go through.

Hint- The bigger the gate the more issues. If you have a tractor make sure your gate is big enough but then just use THAT gate for that purpose. Put in 4ft or 5ft gates that will be used all the time.

I will look for those links but here are a few pics of different corners we have on our farm.
http://www.winginitfarms.com/fencing

we use to have a tutorial on our partners site but it isn't there anymore

 

[OneFineAcre]

I just built an enclosure for two young ND in the past months. I used all wood posts, lined it with 50" cattle panels, lined that with 60" welded wire, and am putting hit wrote inside that.

Not cheap, but hopefully secure. I only sink the posts 2' and have cross pieces between most of them at the 50" height, so the cattle panels are attached at the top as well. Overkill, but I live next to a busy rural road. The gates are the tube type that u attached cattle panel and welded wire as well.

Now that sounds like a fence

 

[OneFineAcre]

we went with all wood posts, DH rented a post hole digger and within 2 hours had all the posts dug. We like the wood posts as the goats like to lean and rub on them and not so much on the fencing.

The wood posts don't cost any more and they look so much better
Nice fencing enhances your property and adds value

 

[secuono]

Use heavy duty UPosts or wood only. Regular metal posts can and do rust out in a year.

 

[OneFineAcre]

I just think it looks nicer
JMHO

 

[Southern by choice]

Here are those links-
http://www.backyardherds.com/threads/constructing-a-woven-wire-field-fence-pics.20682/#post-277769

also a pictorial here

 

[Baymule]

We bought 8 acres with nothing on it but a doublewide. We are still in fencing mode, but are on the homestretch. We went with 200' rolls of 2"x4"x48" non-climb horse wire from TSC. Check prices from several stores around you. We saved $10 a roll by driving to a larger nearby town. We bought 6 rolls at a time and asked for a discount. You have to buy 10 rolls at a time, but we explained that we were doing major fencing and 10 rolls didn't fir on our trailer and we got a discount. We bought 7' T-posts, leaving us one foot of T-post sticking up for 2 strands of barb wire. We also have horses and they will tear up a fence necking over it to get something on the other side. Yes, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. It is costing money, but do it right, do it once or forever repent and refence.

I am so jealous of your barn, BTW!!

 

[Latestarter]

That IS a barn to drool over... just sayin'