Things are changing around here. . . For the better!
We have really been wanting to get our dogs and goats out in the back pasture.
Back in March, Tractor supply had a 15% OFF everything sale. DH and I went and bought 20 cow panels, so we could start putting up fencing out back, without killing ourselves.
I know some of y'all have put in H-posts & stretched wire. But, given our age and pain issues, we had to get realistic and decided the cattle panel fencing was more do-able for us at this time. And, we don't have a lot of money to be paying someone else to do it.
We have the wire, T-posts & plan to cut down cedar trees to use for H-posts. Eventually, we plan to go out & as we are able, we will dig one post hole at a time, and work our way back down the property line.
Last week, we started putting up cattle panels up, starting at the back corner of the goat shed, which is about six feet inside the property line. We used six going back, for 96 feet, 4 across, for 64 feet and 4 back to the southwest corner of the chicken run.
It was a big job, which DH did mostly by himself, since I had projects in the house, that I had to do. I went out a couple times, to give him water & check on the progress. At lunch time he looked really tired, so I took him in the house with me, And made him lunch. Then, I suggested he take a nap, and he took me up on that. Two hours later. He was refreshed and went back out.
At about 5:15 I took water out, to check on progress. He had one more panel to attach & a T-post to pound, and wire to attach fencing to the T-posts. So I helped him carry the last panel & pound the T-post.
Once that was done, we went into the goat yard, to detach the temporary woven wire fencing, to allow the goats & dogs access to the pasture. Violet was the 1st one onto the pasture.
It made us feel really good! Once Deo figured out how to find the opening, they both kept running the perimeter!
It took a few minutes, but once we got Rosemary and Angelica onto the pasture, it was obvious they loved it!
Next we took Falina & the twins out. We've been letting them browse every morning & evening after mealtime. So, for the 3 of them, was nothing out of the ordinary.
Tomorrow is definitely going to be going to be a much lighter day. However we have another project that needs doing before the weekend.
But have not seen any PI near. Goats nibble but prefer the honeysuckle. I generally gut it off at the base, eventually it removes itself from that site.
