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07/15/12, 10:31 AM
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The starts of "Fort Knox''. Pics
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07/15/12, 11:15 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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You may need some machine gun turrets for the corners but otherwise it looks good to me. Big Red obviously doesn't agree. Its funny when the glare. Big, whiny babies.
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07/15/12, 11:16 AM
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Looks like you guys are doing a great job! I can't believe how big Big Red has gotten! Handsome buck.
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07/15/12, 11:17 AM
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Join Date: May 2011
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Nice looking goats! Mine would crawl right out of there. Looks good though keep up the hard work.
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07/15/12, 11:18 AM
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LOL naw he is saying "just wait human we will find a way!!"
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07/15/12, 11:30 AM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Texas Coastal Bend/S. Missouri
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I have one of those. We call ours "The Fortress."
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07/15/12, 11:38 AM
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Alice is it working well for you?
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07/15/12, 11:58 AM
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Ha! He does look a little irked off in the pic. What does Johny Goat think? 
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07/15/12, 12:18 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Worked great until the herd queen went into heat last fall and OPENED THE GATE LATCH. Sigh. Needed a backup chain with a snaphook.
The good news is that it is the last time we'll be breeding her due to health reasons, and she gave me a lovely doeling this spring.
Other than that, we haven't had any issues.
I modeled mine after Yarrow's buck pen.
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Last edited by Alice In TX/MO; 07/15/12 at 12:23 PM.
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07/15/12, 12:19 PM
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Quote:
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Ha! He does look a little irked off in the pic. What does Johny Goat think? |
He hate it. He doesn't understand why he can't be with the girls and why stinky boy wont stay off him.
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07/15/12, 12:38 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO
Worked great until the herd queen went into heat last fall and OPENED THE GATE LATCH. Sigh. Needed a backup chain with a snaphook.
The good news is that it is the last time we'll be breeding her due to health reasons, and she gave me a lovely doeling this spring.
Other than that, we haven't had any issues.
I modeled mine after Yarrow's buck pen.
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That would be our luck. I have two chains with hooks on it. After all is said and done if this doesnt keep oops babies from happening I give up lol
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07/15/12, 01:57 PM
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Best Latch Ever;
Find an old junk car, go down to your local junkyard or someplace and cut the seatbelts out. If you have wood posts, nail them down with washers, if you have metal ones, go to your local tack shop for a few rivets and use those to fasten the nylon around the post.
NOTHING without thumbs is getting in or out!
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07/15/12, 02:17 PM
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not to hijack the thread, are goats that crafty to require these measures?
I know nothing and am just trying to condition myself for what I can expect were I to one day have goats.
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07/15/12, 02:29 PM
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More dharma, less drama.
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Yes. They are. One year I made the mistake of having the bucks next to the does with only one fence between. Three does who had NOT been turned in with a buck kidded. So much for my plans of "milking through." 
As for the latches..... the one the doe opened had a handle that had to be lifted up and moved to the side before the gate opened.
If goats had thumbs, they'd rule the world. Wait a minute. That might be a GOOD idea.
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07/15/12, 03:54 PM
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I love the seatbelt idea. I am going to have to do some calling. Yes goats are that smart. I think the old saying "Where there's a will there's a way" came from goats.
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