lupinfarm
Loving the herd life
The cost of putting up our main pasture fence has pretty much tripled due to the terrain so due to monetary constraints it will not be finished this year. Its unfortunate but what can ya do? and with only 3 goats its not really a huge deal. However, I do need *somewhere* for them to go so on Monday we started putting in this pen. I had already started digging the holes, knowing it would take me about 40 years to dig them and extract the many compact car sized boulders from the ground. I have 3 holes left to dig, can you tell I am not looking forward to digging them? 
The new fence is semi-recycled, the posts being from the fence that Mylie destroyed. I had originally wanted 1" heavy sawn boards for the fence boards. I used those boards on my run-in shelter (also not finished yet, having trouble getting wood for the roof) and they're really nice but my mill does not make 6" boards and the 8" looked kind of tacky lol so instead of opting for 5/4 from Home Depot (very spendy) I went with the cheap and thin 1" boards that are used on privacy fences. We have 2 lines of electric going in, one at 6" and one at 4ft, but a 3rd is a possibility to keep them off the fence itself. I couldn't tell you the size of the pen only that it is quite large because it was a "put a post where there isn't a boulder the size of a Chevy Aveo" kinda deal. I need to take the small pen that used to be the chicken pen out still and we have posts and rails still to put up, but it should be finished by next weekend.
Oh and the gaps under the fence on those sections are because of the hill. We have some boulders the size of small children to put under there to fill the gaps.
We're planning on, sometime in the spring, putting a lean-to off the back of the shed to give the goats somewhere to go while outside so if it rains they don't have to go indoors. It's also somewhere to put our water trough.
The new fence is semi-recycled, the posts being from the fence that Mylie destroyed. I had originally wanted 1" heavy sawn boards for the fence boards. I used those boards on my run-in shelter (also not finished yet, having trouble getting wood for the roof) and they're really nice but my mill does not make 6" boards and the 8" looked kind of tacky lol so instead of opting for 5/4 from Home Depot (very spendy) I went with the cheap and thin 1" boards that are used on privacy fences. We have 2 lines of electric going in, one at 6" and one at 4ft, but a 3rd is a possibility to keep them off the fence itself. I couldn't tell you the size of the pen only that it is quite large because it was a "put a post where there isn't a boulder the size of a Chevy Aveo" kinda deal. I need to take the small pen that used to be the chicken pen out still and we have posts and rails still to put up, but it should be finished by next weekend.
Oh and the gaps under the fence on those sections are because of the hill. We have some boulders the size of small children to put under there to fill the gaps.
We're planning on, sometime in the spring, putting a lean-to off the back of the shed to give the goats somewhere to go while outside so if it rains they don't have to go indoors. It's also somewhere to put our water trough.
