Vickir73
Ridin' The Range
so happy to hear about the kids!!!! yahoo!!!!! 
ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal
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elevan
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Just had to chase the goats back into our field as they were all in the neighbor's yard. All but Diva jumped the fence to get back in...she couldn't get enough lift and kept slamming into the fence. I kept calling her and she finally came to me and I lifted her over. Hopefully they stay put. I'm going to have to make the fence taller or add electric to it, I guess. I hope once Ranger is gone that they stop though as he seems to be the ring leader and literally climbs the fence like a cat. 
They have a 3 acre field full of browse and they're jumping a fence to eat mowed grass! 
autumnprairie
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I am so fed up with my goats right now! They hopped the fence again and this time the neighbor set her dogs out after them. Yeah, crummy neighbor...we do not get along. They all immediately jumped back into the field except Precious who went the opposite direction and we had to give chase. Not a fun evening. Since Ranger is the ring leader we did what I tell people to never never do...we tied him out. He can reach plenty of weeds, his water and shelter but I see no way that he can possibly hang himself...and he's inside the fenced area so relatively safe. I feel sick about tying him but since the neighbor is gonna set her dogs out this seems the most efficient alternative until I can either rehome him or send him to slaughter.
ksalvagno
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I hope the goats stay in the pasture for you. Better a tied out goat than a torn apart by dogs goat.
jodief100
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Sorry to hear that. Mine keep getting out too. I have to move the nets every week or they graze down enough that the "other side" is more appealing. I don't have time to move 8 nets every weekend. So they have been visiting. Thankfully most of the neighbors don't care and the one that does quit complaining when I pointed out his cows are over here far more often than our goats are over there.
I have decided the scientific name for goat must be "Damenous Paininthearseous goatus.
I have decided the scientific name for goat must be "Damenous Paininthearseous goatus.
autumnprairie
Owned by the Rotten Heifers
jodief100 said:I have decided the scientific name for goat must be "Damenous Paininthearseous goatus.
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elevan
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Ranger is still tied and he's very unhappy about it but at least he's safe. The girls are sticking close to him, so 
that this works until he's gone (one way or another).
that this works until he's gone (one way or another).
I have been having trouble with my ram too. My parents expanded his pen a couple weeks ago. Well they didnt put the fence up right so every morning I would find him outside his pen, in our front yard, or walking down the driveway. The extension on his pen has since been blocked off, but now he feels the need to escape into the ewe field. Im still not sure how that happens since the fence is taught. But I also dont know his motivation since he was happy in his pen before my parents built onto it and the ewes arent even in heat yet. And my two ram lambs are penned with hank but they havent escaped...yet.
These critters are so frustrating sometimes!
These critters are so frustrating sometimes!
