My escape artist.....

[holleegee]

My nubian doe keeps getting out of the fence. My fencing is cattle panels so I know she isn't going under or through it. I sat outside the fence with a bucket of oats and waited.... sure enough she would jump onto the back of another goat and jump over the fence! Now how do I fix this problem???

[gccrook]

How do you like your goat? Roasted or broiled or baked? I have no idea how to fix this one. I have fixed many other problems, but none like this.

[topside1]

We want pictures....Can't wait

[topside1]

Which one would you roast, the one that giving the boost or the jumper?

[holleegee]

Originally Posted by topside1

We want pictures....Can't wait

I'll try to videotape it tonight!

[Jim S.]

I feel your pain! My oldest buck has gotten out repeatedly as the URGE has become stronger and stronger. We have 10 days yet before I ideally wanted him out. I am sure we will be seeing some Feb. kids now, which I dread. Jan.-Feb. are the worst months here for unassisted kidding, bar none. Pasture kidding with survival happens best in March.

I was telling my dad that the buck pen looks like a prison, I have put up so much barbed wire along the fence top to keep him in...and still he manages to find a spot to get over.

holleegee, there is ONE way I know works well, and unfortunately my buck pen is not set up that way cuz this is the first year we have used it as a buck pen. But it will be set up like this next year: Two strands of electric fence wire on extensions at the top of the posts, six inches apart. The electric extends a total of 8-12 inches above your regular fencing that way. She's just clearing the fence, right? She'll get nailed with a shock, end of that trick. In a past life, I had that, and I know it works. Next year, I will have it again. You can make free extensions out of old exhaust pipe if you can find any around. Attach insulators and slip it over the T-posts.

[Alice In TX/MO]

If she doesn't have a ground contact, will she/he get shocked?

[Liese]

Originally Posted by Rose

If she doesn't have a ground contact, will she/he get shocked?

That was my question too. How about a very visible rope, surveyors' tape or similar on the extensions? This increase in fence height that she could easily see might be a deterent, especially if you could figure out a way for the extensions to lean in a bit. I'd do it much higher than you think she can go - just to be on the safe side, and let it be slightly loose so it flutters. Hope this idea helps some, but you got admit that is one smart girl!

[DocM]

She'll get shocked, yes. My goats go through regular gauge electric fencing, I have to use a couple of strands of high tensile heavy gauge australian fencing. I run it along the top of all my pens to keep the jumpers in.

[DKWunlimited]

I have a pygmy jumper.. hippy hop and she is over the 4 foot fense, no boost needed. I used to worry about it. Now I have found that she goes right back over when she is ready.

[Liese]

OKay, according to the resident scientist, AKA Bob, you can't change physics and if the goat (or whatever) is airborne - not touching anything else but the electric line it cannot be shocked. Now he says if the goat is touching the field fencing and the hot wire - yes, he/she will be grounded and therefore gets an electrical charge. Otherwise that wire is just another physical barrier. Since birds sit on charged wires this makes sense to me...Bob has yet to sit on a hot wire for me to test his theory!

[trappmountain]

If you ever get Bob to test that theory, we want it on tape!