Over dramatic or???

With care goats can be staked out safely. When clearing briars, around the garden, near fruit trees etc it's helpful to have stakes and chains to put goats out during the day when the weather is nice. We choose goat power to clear out areas instead of wasting gas and the mower.

On the other side of the coin, we've also had two goats hang themselves (by their back foot after scaling the fence) on normal fencing without stakes or chains and have not had a problem with them on chains. So I see it from both sides. Fences are not fool proof and stakes are not pure evil.

If you're careful and it works for you is all that matters.

^^^That's what worries me. Mine love to "walk on the walls" of the barn. They jump up, walk sideways on the wall, and then jumps back down. They've tried it on their 6x6 kennel. Hopefully a bigger pen will curb that desire.

Here is their new pen!

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that looks like plenty of space now, is that the sheep fencing?
it looks like what we call "field" fencing.

one suggestion I would make from experience...
as your able to afford them, I would increase the number of t-posts and decrease the amount of space between them, we thought we had it tight and then had to add more everytime we turned around.

We had to buy cattle panels over time as our goats would stand on the field fencing, break it, then stretch and loosen it up and somehow get thru it or under it, but only when we weren't looking, they are sneaky like that, lol

Hubby was due to put in more t posts when he gets home.

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I stake mine out, but only when i am there and i am outside the whole time and can see each of them. I use a dog leash tied to a rope which is tied to a cinderblock. That way, i can easily pick it up and move it to another area that needs grazing. If i did not do this, when i let them out to graze, they went straight for the azalas and other things they should not have. I lead them out on another dog leash, one at a time and they are good. It took a couple days for them to get the rutine, but now they are better on a leash walking than most dogs i have seen.

I think it does help that mine are older, i do not stake out the kids, but as they get older i will start training them to it as well.

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I stake my goat out but let her kids wander around the yard, all supervised. When they get older, I'll stake them out too. As long as they're supervised, I don't see a problem.