Electric Netting?

[CarolynRenee]

Has anyone used electric netting to contain goats?

We'd like to be able to make some temporary paddocks for the goats to graze in during the day & then bring them back to the barn at night (more secure fencing).

Pros? Cons?

Thanks!

[colemangirly]

I use it and am in the Ozarks too. I do the same as you are talking about. I have a nice paddock of cattle panels that they stay in at night as well as bad weather. During the day, I put them out in the netting all around our place. It is heavily forested. Cons are it is hard to manuver in the forest and brambles, and you need high charge to keep them in. Pros are it enables me to keep them rotated in their browse, less hay, they are happier, and it clears my property without having a large investment in fence. We have two rolls and just move them twice a month. It wont hold up forever, but allows me to get them lots of feed in an efficient manner.

As much as it is a pain to move around, I would still choose this method again!! We love it, and because they clean up the place, my hubby is VERY tolerant of my "goat fixation"

Tadpole Acres

[Alice In TX/MO]

I use it for my buck pen in the forest, and for two sides of the doe pen. LOVE IT!

Get a good charger.

[Minelson]

I use it around my weed garden LOL! I use it to keep the goats out of anything until we can get something more permanent up. My goats free range our property...so it comes in handy! Just make sure you have a good charge on it or they might really get tangled in it.

[CarolynRenee]

Thanks for the replies! You have proved me wrong.....I figured it wouldn't work for goats, but DH said it would. Granted, neither of us really knew, but I'll have to tell him that he was right (as usual).

[Alice In TX/MO]

http://www.premier1supplies.com/fenc...p?species_id=2

[Minelson]

Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO

http://www.premier1supplies.com/fenc...p?species_id=2

Premier is where I got mine (prolly cuz Alice) and I did a lot of research..Premier has the best price for quality and includes shipping

[hiddensprings]

I used the same fencing from Premier. As long as you have a good charger, it works like a dream.

[bcadybug]

I'm waiting on my net fencing from Premier to arrive, ordered it earlier this week.

They were offering FREE SHIPPING! WOOHOO! Not sure if that free shipping is all the time or a limited time type offer.

Val

[motdaugrnds]

I considered getting that net fencing from Premier too. Hope it works as well for you as it is advertised to. I've heard good things about it.

[CarolynRenee]

Thanks for the link Alice. I do have a question though. I watched the "how to" video on installing the fencing & it shows him stepping on the posts and they sink every so smoothly into the ground. He obviously hasn't tried to do that in the Ozarks.

Not sure what part of Missouri you are in Alice, but I just don't see that type of post working, at all, on our "soil". We have to us a hydraulic post pounder to post our t-posts into the ground, and it's not because we're lazy, it's just solid stinking rock!

We would have to find some other way to keep the fencing upright. I was thinking some sort of moveable post system, like small, squat tubs of concrete with a pvc tube in the middle that the posts could be placed into. Or I suppose if we fence in the woods, we could just use the trees?

[chewie]

Originally Posted by Minelson

I use it around my weed garden LOL! I use it to keep the goats out of anything until we can get something more permanent up. My goats free range our property...so it comes in handy! Just make sure you have a good charge on it or they might really get tangled in it.

how long of a roll is this?? nice to have an idea of how far it goes.

[Minelson]

Originally Posted by chewie

how long of a roll is this?? nice to have an idea of how far it goes.

I don't know! lol!! I looked at the website to jog my memory and that didn't work...so it's either 80 or 164'. Lot of help I am

[Alice In TX/MO]

Most of them are 164 feet.

[Cyngbaeld]

Originally Posted by CarolynRenee

Thanks for the link Alice. I do have a question though. I watched the "how to" video on installing the fencing & it shows him stepping on the posts and they sink every so smoothly into the ground. He obviously hasn't tried to do that in the Ozarks.

Not sure what part of Missouri you are in Alice, but I just don't see that type of post working, at all, on our "soil". We have to us a hydraulic post pounder to post our t-posts into the ground, and it's not because we're lazy, it's just solid stinking rock!

We would have to find some other way to keep the fencing upright. I was thinking some sort of moveable post system, like small, squat tubs of concrete with a pvc tube in the middle that the posts could be placed into. Or I suppose if we fence in the woods, we could just use the trees?

You couldn't put the posts into the pvc pipe, but you could use baling twine to tie the posts to the pvc pip and that should work. You might could tie the posts to the trees too.

[dustin biery]

Thanks guys for all the information in this thread! I have been trying to figure out how we were going to separate the three bucks for breeding season and for the cost, this is by far the best idea.

[Alice In TX/MO]

This is going to sound like nit-piking installation, but it works here in the Ozark rocky ground.

Try to install it after a rain. Bring along a battery powered drill with a large bit, larger diameter than the spike on the fence. Drill a pilot hole for the spikes as necessary.

They are VERY hard to install when the ground is dry here in south central Missouri.

Where I have a "gate" at the end of the run of fence, I pounded a 6 inch piece of 1/2 inch PVC into the ground to slide the spike into. Yes, I had to drill the hole in the ground first.