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  • From: "Beth Spaugh" <lists AT rhomestead.com>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken
  • Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 14:01:50 -0500

I have cats and poultry netting. In the winter the end of the netting is actually right up against the house in two spots. The cats seem to be able to feel the electricity and stay away. But they are house cats just out for entertainment,  not die hard barn cats.

 

We have only lost an animal once to the electric netting. A large broiler got spooked when my husband moved their shelter and caught its foot. Dogs put their nose to it once and then steer very clear of it. Squirrels run through it, jumping each time after getting zapped. Oh, and skunks get mad and bite it – we’ve had two skunks die in the net, but they didn’t spray.

 

Beth Spaugh
Rehoboth Homestead
Peru NY
http://rhomestead.com


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of road's end farm
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 1:29 PM
To: Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken

 

Do you have cats?

Have you heard of cats getting caught in the electric netting?

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

On Mar 24, 2006, at 9:29 AM, DreamThymeFarm wrote:

 


I was able to keep my former goats in a 4 strand
electric fence. These goats I want to move around to
target their grazing. Anyone here keep them in
electric netting such as the poultry fencing Premier
makes?? We've already got several rolls of it and it's
very easy to relocate even on a daily basis.

Liz Pike
Hillsville VA


Liz, we raise goats in Premiere fencing. They are pastured all year.
We have 85 acres here and in two years they haven't been on the same
place twice.
They are on pasture all year and brought down at the end of November/
the beginning of December and kept down at the barn until they kid.
They are fed a beautiful organic high protein hay during that time.
We have over 100 goats, with Saanen dairy goats, Nigerian dwarves for
butterfat, purebred Boers and percentages.
We also have a large number of bucks that we keep here.
We have different groups of goats out on pastures.
We are on a state wide study of parasites on small ruminants and
pasture soil quality and analysis.

We also have different guard animals that we use.
We have Great Pyrenees and llamas that live with our goats.
And we have American Working farm collies that run the whole farm,
herding, guarding and working nonstop.

We also raise chickens behind netting too. Meat and egg layers. And turkeys.
Oh, and sheep behind netting.
And we have pastured milk fed pork too that we use hot wire for and
rotate their fencing.

If you have any questions for me, feel free to email me and ask.
Lynne Gelston
Dream Thyme Farm

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