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12-01-2014, 02:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-01-2014, 02:02 PM by Mountain_girl.)
Hi,
I was hoping for some advice. We are brand new to goats (we've had our 7 month old wethers for a little over 2 months) and have a bit of a problem with them recently starting to jump the fences. They are being housed on a multiple acre pasture with about a dozen other goats (mostly NDs- no other pack goats) with both does and other wethers. A couple weeks ago, they started jumping the fences between the paddocks- luckily not the perimeter fences. Even when the gates are open and they have access, they seem to enjoy taking the short cuts. After a failed attempt at separating the males from the females, they even got to be the only boys in with all the girls. But after a couple days, they started jumping back to eat with the boys too. The gal that owns the other goats (and the land) has zero tolerance for her goats jumping and sold one that followed our boys. I feel terrible that they are causing problems. We are considering putting them into a large 6 foot high enclosure within the pasture. Any suggestions? Will they out grow the jumping or do we have incorrigible goats? Thank you for any help!
I was hoping for some advice. We are brand new to goats (we've had our 7 month old wethers for a little over 2 months) and have a bit of a problem with them recently starting to jump the fences. They are being housed on a multiple acre pasture with about a dozen other goats (mostly NDs- no other pack goats) with both does and other wethers. A couple weeks ago, they started jumping the fences between the paddocks- luckily not the perimeter fences. Even when the gates are open and they have access, they seem to enjoy taking the short cuts. After a failed attempt at separating the males from the females, they even got to be the only boys in with all the girls. But after a couple days, they started jumping back to eat with the boys too. The gal that owns the other goats (and the land) has zero tolerance for her goats jumping and sold one that followed our boys. I feel terrible that they are causing problems. We are considering putting them into a large 6 foot high enclosure within the pasture. Any suggestions? Will they out grow the jumping or do we have incorrigible goats? Thank you for any help!