Using four cattle panels to move goats around brush?

[trublu]

I had recently read some posts on different ones taking their goats out with them to the woods to graze instead of tethering ( I dont do anyway).
Someone had mentions using 4 cattle panels and move them around I thought I would do this with the ones I have with hoof scald to get them out of the infected area for a month at least.
Any good ideas on making a pen like this that is sturdy? I was only thinking of just using fence posts and taking them up when time to move them? But I am sure someone has a simpler idea??

Thanks.......

[ailsaek]

Trees?

[trublu]

If you are suggesting using trees for the panels...Duh!! That would be a fabulous idea....now I feel stupid!! Thanks.

[moonspinner]

I know someone who does this, not with cattle panels but a lighter weight wire fence panels. Easy to move and newe pasture all the time.

[cjb]

I have this same question. How could you use trees and have it still be mobile?

Can't you take four panels, make a square and wire them together and have it be free-standing? What would you use to wire together and how could you make one open-able?

Simple questions and I can and will figure out but I like leveraging other people's experience ;-)

[Susan n' Emily in TN]

You should be able to anchor with a couple of t posts to a side. very easy to set up and to pull up to move. Susan

[dosthouhavemilk]

4 makes for a fairly small area that needs moved more often. If you can afford 6-8 you will be better off and it won't have to be moved as much. Tie them to trees, or use T-Posts. If you tie them properly they will hold themselves up. Overlap them before tieing, it will strengthen the hold. Some use Plastic zip ties to secure them together but string is more easily removed for moving.
For easy to open sections buy the D-Clips..the carrinbingers (butchered that spelling). They are cheap and very effective for this type of work.
For string we use orange baler twine from the round bales, but you can buy clothesline cheap from dollar stores and use that.

[dosthouhavemilk]

Quakerfarmer posting on "Dost thou have milk"'s ticket: The key is not squares but circles. Even when we are basically going in a straight line (such as the 120' x 60' pen we just slapped together to clean up between the house and barn) we tend to serpentine the fence as much as possible, or more often make a series of scallops. The arcs make the fence semi-selfsupporting. If one takes just four panels and makes it in a free standing circle, it should stand up okay (except to the larger "climbing" goats, who will just walk it down). Following this reasoning--the tighter the arc the stronger the fence--three panels in a circle make a much solider pen, and two panels in a circle shouldn't need any support (but it will need to be moved quite often).