Yesterday DH and I spent the whole day building a smaller paddock inside our goat pasture for the goats to stay in at night, and to help us when we need to wrangle them for any reason. Even the best goats have their days, so we wanted to be sure we weren't chasing them in circles around the pasture when they were being boogers.
I'd been reading that ducks will help clear pastures of certain parasites, like liverflukes, and whaddayaknow, I've got 4 ducks that I wanted out of the back yard. (nothing like skidding down a flight of cement steps because they are covered in fresh duck poo.)
So yesterday, we had built the paddock looking at it from a goat's eye view. Today we looked at it from a duck's eye view, added a shelter and tighter wiring.
Yeah.
The shelter.
The ducks don't like it. They prefer sleeping under the stars.
The goats LOVE it. It's a mountain! They can climb onto the top of it and jump over the fence into the big pasture!!! Wheee! Isn't this fun!
So after church tomorrow, we'll be spending day 3 working on this little area, making a higher fence at the back, lol. It's ok- I was planning on that, anyway. Behind that section is where we want to put a buck pen for our future Angora. We wanted to build a high, strong, and... ahem... impenetrable fence anyway. (see flying sperm thread, lol.)
So I'm thinking a double 20' tall chain link fence, topped with razor wire, and a moat with alligators in it (or maybe goldfish. I haven't decided yet,) might keep them in.
The goats are
in their shed for the night, lol. No more sneaking out over the top THIS night.
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