babsbag
Herd Master
My first goats spent the night in a horse trailer so we could build the pen the next day. Chicks were in the dining room in a rabbit cage wrapped in towels with a desk lamp shining on them. 
About that first goat pen...We just threw up some no climb wire between some over spaced t-post. Then we built a 16x16 corral that we locked them in at night and during the day while I was at work. When I was home they were in the bigger area but I checked on them constantly and didn't trust the fence at all.
Well, DH was gone all week so he didn't know my routine. That weekend I had to be gone almost all day to go to a bee class and bring home my first bees so he was in charge of the goats. He let them out and took a nap. Lo and behold when he woke up no goats to be found, they had "walked" right over the fence. He looked and looked and nothing. When I called him on my way home I could tell something was wrong and then he tells me that he lost the goats.
I got home after dark so no more searching. The next day we drive all over checking out every goat herd we could see and no goats. We finally put up a sign on the road and we get a call; the goats have been found, 3 miles away. 
Those little brats went on a walkabout and I was shocked that they didn't become coyote dinner that night they were out. A lady found them in her yard eating her rose bushes and locked them in her chicken coop. Silly goats.
We put up a hot wire the next day.
I strongly suggest good fences before you get goats.
About that first goat pen...We just threw up some no climb wire between some over spaced t-post. Then we built a 16x16 corral that we locked them in at night and during the day while I was at work. When I was home they were in the bigger area but I checked on them constantly and didn't trust the fence at all.
Well, DH was gone all week so he didn't know my routine. That weekend I had to be gone almost all day to go to a bee class and bring home my first bees so he was in charge of the goats. He let them out and took a nap. Lo and behold when he woke up no goats to be found, they had "walked" right over the fence. He looked and looked and nothing. When I called him on my way home I could tell something was wrong and then he tells me that he lost the goats.
I got home after dark so no more searching. The next day we drive all over checking out every goat herd we could see and no goats. We finally put up a sign on the road and we get a call; the goats have been found, 3 miles away. Those little brats went on a walkabout and I was shocked that they didn't become coyote dinner that night they were out. A lady found them in her yard eating her rose bushes and locked them in her chicken coop. Silly goats. We put up a hot wire the next day.
I strongly suggest good fences before you get goats.
Works for chickens and chicks... not sure I want goats in the spare bedroom though 
