Angry goats.
I was thrilled to set up a brambly area for the goats to graze - and I wouldn't have to stand there with them. They were not happy about it. At all. I got a lot of mean looks.
Fence line thru the bramble. Step 1: mow.
I put this yard together really quickly after my husband's expert mowing the other day. All I really needed was some push-in posts and to string up more hotwire.
Once it was all laid out I could use this expert technique to hook it up to the existing pig yard. You can't pay for this kind of professionalism....
Any actual electricians out there getting a twitch in their eye? Ha!
Seriously, just twist the wires together and you'll be fine.
After a certain amount of running and chasing I got all the big goats - and one small one - into the new yard. The complaining and mean looks began immediately.
Behold - the chair in which I sit and give zero hoots for a bunch of complaining goats.
When the mean looks didn't work the goats started bellyaching. That didn't work either as the sad lamentations of angry goats has never successfully moved me to action. I continued to sit in my chair and enjoy the cool day.
After I got up and walked away the goats called pitifully after me. I wasn't sure they'd stay behind the hotwire but they did and I'm calling this project a huge success. Since we moved the pigz into the yard where the goats used to free range I've had to stand there and shepherd those goats. Now I can just take them down to their new yard and go on about my business.
All this fencing and refencing is pretty boring - but that's what has been happening around here. Sometimes there are long stretches of doing the same-same everyday. Fencing, refencing, weeding, and garden maintenance ... all while I wait around for the tomato onslaught to begin.
Happy Friday everyone! Are you moved by the sad lamentations of angry goats?
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Are you completely moving fences or adding news ones? I imagine after a time the area they cleared would need doing over again, so to have multiple areas that you can put them would be helpful.
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