Ok goats got out if new fence for first time

[countrylivingtx]

Its a 5 strand barbed wire with 6ft metal tposts every 6 feet how many strands of wire do I need and how many feet can the posts be apart because I cant take it again im stopping this before it starts

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Barbed wire doesn't work for goats. Ever. Replace it with woven wire

[countrylivingtx]

Originally Posted by Squeaky McMurdo

Barbed wire doesn't work for goats. Ever. Replace it with woven wire

Not even if I did 10 strand

[forphase1]

Nope. I've yet to see a barbed wire fence that goats won't be able to squeeze through somehow. You need a solid barrier that you really can't get with barbed wire.

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[Cannon_Farms]

unless you are having a professional do the fence and tightening it extremely well your not going to get away with what you are doing and probably not even then. For the life of me I cant understand why you want to try and use the vile stuff

[CJBegins]

I have a neighbor that had cows, decided to get goats. Original fence was 4 strands barb wire, he added 4 more strands.....and 2 strands electric. If he was starting from scratch he would have been money ahead to go with woven wire and the 2 strands electric.

For your fence, you might be able to add 2 or 3 strands of electric in between the barb wire strands. What kind of goat are you trying to contain?

[lovinglife]

Imagine what a full udder will look like after it was drug through a barbed wire fence. Not something I would care to wake up to. Woven wire is the way to go.

[MDKatie]

If you can't do woven wire, I'd at least run several strands on the inside of the fence (use 6" insulators) and electrify it. Do NOT electrify barbed wire, but run regular electric fence wire.

[Squeaky McMurdo]

Originally Posted by countrylivingtx

Not even if I did 10 strand

No. Lol, my neighbor across the street got goats last year and kept adding strands to the existing barbed wire fence every time they escaped. Lots of strands, definitely more than 10. They look like they're 4" apart. The neighbor then added chicken wire. After they escaped that the neighbor gave up and sold them. They weren't small goats either.

[V-NH]

Yah. In my limited 6 months of experience, I have found that electric wire is the way to go. I have basic field fencing and they climbed over that without a problem. A few months ago I put a single strand of electric wire at the top and they haven't gotten out since. The farm I bought them from kept their goats in with a t post/4 strands of electric wire setup and didn't seem to have a problem. All hail electricity!

[yarrow]

I spent one Easter morning.. trying to close a rip in the rear udder of a high producing doe (a hole you could stick two fingers in !!) she had gotten shoved by another goat backwards into ONE strand of barb wire that was along a fence line we didn't use any more.. milk and blood was simply pouring out of her..can't imagine the damage if it had been multiple wires of that nasty stuff !!!
(I ended up milking her out and having to work as fast as I could to get her closed up before her milk filled back up to the rip)... couldn't stitch it.. (too ragged of edges, too dirty..been too long).. I finally got her closed up and she finally did heal up.. BUT... the less barb wire the better.. honestly if you can't get woven fence or cattle panels.. even really hot electric (which is what we have on the north side of our land).. I'd not have goats before I'd have them held in by barbedwire..

susie