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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

We paid $78 a roll for the high tensile.  The roll does 3 strands on 3 
acres.  It is more expensive than regular hotwire but we found that the 
continual repair due to "the forest" was worth the extra expense of high 
tensile.

And, I agree.  A happy goat is a *less likely* to wander goat <g>

Houdini could have taken a lesson or two from goats!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Barbed wire is useless unless you put it every four inches  and even then 
> I
> bet they'd get out.
>
> No fence (except Lynda's suggestion of a prison fence) will hold goats 
> that
> don't want to be held.  The first thing is to make it so that their 
> motivation
> to leave the perimeter is minimal, enough food, water, shade, etc.  They 
> don't
> like to be in the rain and if a shelter is INside the fence, they are more
> reluctant to leave.
>
> All you can do is somewhat discourage them from leaving.  High tensile is
> expensive and not necessary.  What we've found to work best is common 17 
> gauge
> electric fence wire with the slack kept out of it by means of high tensile
> tensioners.  Those nylon tensioners for 17 ga fencing are useless. 
> Wires at 6"
> 12" 24" 36" keeps them in.  We learned to rig the 6" and 24" wires as one
> circuit and the 12" and 36" wires as a second circuit so the latter could 
> be
> disconnected from the charger grounded if the weather gets too dry and 
> provide the
> other pole for the shock.
>
> The fence also has a wire at 52" for the benefit of equines and bovines.
>
> The goats will learn what the wire is and avoid it.  But if they want to 
> go
> out badly enough, they will go out.   </HTML>
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