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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken - Premier fencing
- From: "Nan Johnson" <nan AT olemiss.edu>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken - Premier fencing
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 12:35:48 -0600
Re: Premier fencing for goats - I use the 4 ft
Electrashock net fencing, but not frequently. It does tend to sag alot
between stakes.
When I worked at the Heifer International ranch, we
used this Electrashock goat fencing for herd of 50 goats & sheep
and two Scotch Highland cows with horns - calf got tangled in it one day, but we
could repair it. We moved it every few days for intensive
grazing.
I do use the Premier Poultry net fencing for my
rare ducks (Silver Appleyards), though I have a Great Pyrenees as "back up"
since in a storm, the sections of this fencing have blown over enough to start
sparking where hot wire touches ground.
Also, it takes a lot of mowing in Mississippi in
the summer, to keep grass from touching the first hot wire. In winter, the
on/off button on the charger unit freezes and I have to gingerly undo the hot
and ground wires, rather than use the bottom (nerve wracking, since I am not at
ease with electricity!)
Have no idea if the fencing or the dog are
what have kept fatalities to zero (lost ALOT of ducks before the two, which were
put in place simultaneously). These ducks don't fly and they trained to
the fencing immediately.
I am using their solar battery.
nan at dancing goats farm, n. mississippi
zone 7b
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[Market-farming] goats/chicken,
Liz Pike, 03/24/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken,
DreamThymeFarm, 03/24/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken,
road's end farm, 03/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken,
DreamThymeFarm, 03/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken,
willfindley, 03/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken - Premier fencing, Nan Johnson, 03/28/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken,
willfindley, 03/28/2006
- Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken, Beth Spaugh, 03/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken,
DreamThymeFarm, 03/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken,
road's end farm, 03/25/2006
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Re: [Market-farming] goats/chicken,
DreamThymeFarm, 03/24/2006
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