Evil Goats and Fences

[lyceum]

Our goats being the Houdinis that they are cannot stay in he plentiful pasture that is for them (they also have a round bale of hay since pasture is not enough according to them) have to climb through the fence and go into our hay field where for some reason there is a ton of clover and other fun stuff to eat. All the holes had been patched, but they have created new spots to jump through.

Well, went out yesterday with Priscilla (Border Collie) and 2 of our friends that are staying with us for awhile and found Vega (Lamancha Doe Kid) caught in the fence in a very weird prediciment. I sent our Friend Mike down to the house to get my mom on the phone and let her know we had a problem. In the meantime, I have Mike's wife Kat holding poor Vega's head up while I get all the legs unstuck. Once she was out, I had to get Priscilla out of the way since she loves to help. Then had to go around the fence and pick the poor girl and haul her to the milk room to evaluate her. She had a small tear on an inside front leg where she got into a fight with the fence. She was weak and wobbly, but no broken bones. She was up and around this morning and would have eaten twice if I would have let her.

Carisa

[LFmenagerie]

Its amazing what they can go through.
We opened a space in the barn for the youngsters to go through. It was very narrow, just removed a verticle board. As we were saying, I don't think the big girls can get in there." the biggest Saanen (1 1/2 yrs old) moved through like the wind. She did some sort of shoulder movement as she went. We stood there with our mouths open. She can't go through after we put a board horizontal at just over shoulder height for the small ones.
It was amazing to watch.
Pam

[Cliff]

We actually have a goat named Houdini
Yes they can be real stinkers.

[pookshollow]

Tell me about it! I spent last weekend fixing the fence along our neighbour's hayfield so they couldn't get under it (looks real purty - scraps of rabbit cage wire, old eavestroughing and fallen branches wired into it). Today they decided that they should come under the fence by the house, and go wandering down the driveway - so I spent the afternoon stopping all those gaps. It's not that there's holes in the fence, they squooge under the pagewire. The person who put up the fence was a bit stingy with fenceposts, so there's a fair gap between, which allows for a lot of stretch. Doesn't help that the big mare likes to leeeean over the fences and push them down, either.